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mental health
Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illnessKate Kelland Reuters 09/05/2011 | Doctors Warn About ‘Facebook Depression’ In TeensLindsey Tanner CBS Boston 03/28/2011 |
 Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study. |  Add “Facebook depression” to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors’ group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site. |
Birthday-suit therapist Sarah White conducts naked therapy sessions for troubled New YorkersRich Schapiro New York Daily News 03/01/2011 | 'Wandering minds' make people unhappy: study Yahoo! News Singapore 11/12/2010 |
 There's one sure way to get a man to bare his soul - get naked. Sarah White, a 24-year-old psychology buff, conducts online therapy sessions in her birthday suit. The naked therapist's unique approach to helping people solve their issues has, she says, aroused interest from dozens of suffering New Yorkers. |  A US study out Thursday suggests that people spend about half of their time thinking about being somewhere else, or doing something other than what they are doing, and this perpetual act of mind-wandering makes them unhappy. |
Depression treatable by electromagnetic therapy: study Breitbart.com 05/04/2010 | |
 Patients suffering from depression may find relief from treatments using electromagnetic stimulation, offering a possible alternative to mood-altering medications, a new study found. |  Many American soldiers are showing signs of psychological distress after spending years on the battlefield, and an increasing number are turning to prescription medication to ease their symptoms. |
Fish oil supplements 'beat psychotic mental illness' BBC News 02/01/2010 | Interactive Resource for Military Family Deployment Support WiseHealth, Inc. 07/20/2009 |
 Taking a daily fish oil capsule can stave off mental illness in those at highest risk, trial findings suggest. |  WiseHealth, Inc. has launched WiseMil.com (http://www.wisemil.com), an exclusive site that provides the only dual social/community networking and Family Readiness Leadership support service for military families. Available free of charge, WiseMil.com is secure, protected, and solely for military family and command use. |
Study Shows a Link Between Schizophrenia & Genetic Mutations MEDomics 07/19/2009 | U.S. Society Ignoring Serious Boy ProblemsRachael Rettner LiveScience 07/01/2009 |
 A link between schizophrenia and ultra-rare variants in microRNA genes on the X-chromosome has been identified. Mutations in a subset of these regulatory RNA genes may strongly predispose to schizophrenia. The recently published study in PLoS ONE by the laboratories of Steve S. Sommer, MD, PhD and John J. Rossi, PhD reports the first association of microRNA dysfunction with schizophrenia. This breakthrough may have preventive or therapeutic implications. |  Growing up is tough. But for boys, it may be even tougher. While both boys and girls face issues — in school and out — the problems affecting boys are serious and have not been properly addressed by policy makers, according to a new review article by psychologist Judith Kleinfeld. Among the results: high rates of functional illiteracy and a troublingly high suicide rate that's become even more pronounced in recent years compared to the rate among girls. |
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