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Physicians practicing assisted suicide are asked to better screen patients for depression
jerry submitted, created time 2 months 4 weeks (www.reuters.com)
This article is particularly concerned with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which requires physicians who suspect that a patient requesting help in ending his or her live might be suffering from clinical depression to have said patient evaluated by a mental health professional. However, the proportion of such patients who actually are evaluated has dropped and continues to drop.
Last year, forty-six patients died by physician-assisted suicide in Oregon. None of them were evaluated to see if depression had affected their judgment. 
Higher Suicide Risk for Smart Doctors
jerry submitted, created time 7 months 4 weeks (www.time.com)
There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year — a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.
Compulsive gamblers always down on their luck
kavin submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.eurekalert.org)
According to a study published today in the open access journal Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, gambling addicts don't learn from their mistakes. And it predisposes a person to the development of impulsive or compulsive behaviour, leading to pathological gambling.
Brain changes linked to adolescent moods
jane2007 submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (www.nature.com)
A study of Australian adolescents has identified changes in the brain that correlate with the normal grumbling aggression and moodiness often seen in this age group.
Screening for behavioral health first step to getting treatment
bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.eurekalert.org)
Health plans seldom require screening for substance abuse and mental health in primary care even though it can improve detection, according to a new Brandeis University study published in the July issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. This may be a missed opportunity to help people with mental illness or substance abuse problems, only a fraction of whom currently receive treatment.
Mental illness an 'enormous problem' for military
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.reutershealth.com)
A large study of Canadian military personnel shows, soldiers on peacekeeping missions who witness atrocities are at risk of developing mental health problems, as are those exposed to combat.
People Think They Reap What They Sow
cappuccion submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.physorg.com)
People gauge how responsive their partners are primarily by how they themselves respond to their partners—not the other way around, according to a series of Yale studies in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Walking in countryside beats depression
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (news.xinhuanet.com)
"A new study found that taking long walks in countryside could help alleviate symptoms of depression."
Study: Doing Good Makes You Feel Good
dovechocolate submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.livescience.com)
There's a new incentive to doing good things for others: It makes you happier, according to a new study. Go and Do something good, at least good for mental health!
Study: School Culture Affects Student Violence
daphne submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.livescience.com)
Along with personality and peer relationships, a school’s culture also influences whether a child resolves an issue peacefully or goes off the deep end and resorts to violence, a new study finds.
Study: Religion is Good for Kids
cappuccion submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.livescience.com)
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development. The conflict that arises when parents regularly argue over their faith at home, however, has the opposite effect.
daphne submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.news.cornell.edu)
Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people.
Study: Antidepressants May Help Kids
daphne submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.examiner.com)
Authors of a new comprehensive analysis of antidepressants for children and teenagers say the benefits of treatment trump the small risk of increasing some patients' chances of having suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Race, Ethnicity, and the Use of Services for Mental Disorders
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (archpsyc.ama-assn.org)
"Little is known about differences in the unmet need for mental health service use between African Americans and Caribbean blacks. "
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