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National Study Shows Majority Of Self-Harming Adolescents Don’t Receive A Mental Health Assessment During Emergency Room Visit
A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportion of these patients receive no outpatient mental health care in the following month…
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No commentsAccess To Psychotropic Medicines Affected By Health Systems Factors
In a cross-sectional analysis of WHO-AIMS data published in this week’s PLoS Medicine, Ryan McBain of Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA and colleagues investigated the associations between health system components and access to psychotropic drugs in 63 low- and middle- income countries (LAMICs)…
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No commentsA Glass Of Milk A Day Could Benefit Your Brain
Pouring at least one glass of milk each day could not only boost your intake of much-needed key nutrients, but it could also positively impact your brain and mental performance, according to a recent study in the International Dairy Journal…
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No commentsSurvivors Of Hurricane Katrina Struggle With Mental Health Years Later, Study Says
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. The study’s lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, said that the results were a departure from other surveys both in the design and the results…
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No commentsLink Between PCE In Drinking Water And An Increased Risk Of Mental Illness
PCE in drinking water linked to an increased risk of mental illness The solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) widely used in industry and to dry clean clothes is a neurotoxin known to cause mood changes, anxiety, and depression in people who work with it…
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No comments1 In 5 Americans With Mental Illness, National Survey
Some 45.9 million, or around 1 in 5 American adults (age 18 and over) experienced a mental illness in the past year, according to the US government’s latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released this month…
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No commentsGossip Is Good For You!
Fed up with listening to your spouse or co-workers gossiping away? Leave be, says a new research from University of California Berkeley. Gossip helps to prevent bad behavior, prevent exploitation and reduces stress levels…
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No commentsMental Illness Protects Some Inmates From Returning To Jail
People with mental illness have gotten a bad rap in past research studies, being labeled the group of people with the highest return rates to prison…
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No commentsMental Health – Experts Urge For Special UN Session
A team of international health experts has made a call for the United Nations to hold a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) to focus worldwide attention on neurological and mental disorders as well as substance use disorders as a central development issue, which need commitment to improve access to care, promote human rights, and reinforce evidence on eff…
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No commentsA Special UN Session On Mental Health Called For By International Health Experts
A group of international health experts has called for a special session of the United Nations (referred to as UNGASS – United Nations General Assembly Special Session) to focus global attention on mental, neurological, and substance use disorders as a core development issue requiring commitments to improve access to care, promote human rights, and strengthen the evidence on ef…
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