Lawmakers Take Up Competing Budget Plans
Budget cuts have affected K-12 education, colleges and universities, parks, health care programs for the poor, and other core state services.
California lawmakers on Tuesday began their overdue debate about how to close a $19 billion budget deficit, casting their differences as a struggle over the future of the nation's most populous state.... |  |
Drug For Sleepless Vets Raises Questions
It's unclear how many troops have died while taking Seroquel, or if the drug definitely contributed to the deaths.
Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-pyschotic called Seroquel.... | |
Higher Rates Of Depression Found Among Low-Income New Mothers
More than 50% of infants in poverty are raised by mothers with mild to severe depression, which could contribute to problems in parenting and child development, according to a study by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute, the Washington Post reports.... | |
Growing Up Bipolar
Jennifer Konjoian was 10 years old when she put a plastic bag over her head. She remembers doing it impulsively, for no other reason than to get attention.... | |
Brain's Default Mode Network May Hold Key To Better Psychiatric Diagnoses
A series of studies published in recent years suggests that in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, the default mode network, that curious pattern of brain activity that ramps up when we daydream, works differently than it does in healthy control subjects.... | |
Fighting Stigma In Silicon Valley
For many, the words "mental health treatment" are embarrassing, but one Cupertino nonprofit is working to lessen that stigma and reach out to local youth in need of help.... | |
Military Mental Health Issues Now At Epidemic Proportions
Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month.... | |
The Pathway Home Makes Inroads In Treating PTSD
They went off to war brimming with confidence and eager for the fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. They returned, many of them, showing no visible wounds but utterly transformed by combat—with symptoms of involuntary trembling, irritability, restlessness, depression, nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia, emotional numbness, sensitivity to noise, and, all too often, a tendency to seek relief in alcohol, drugs or suicide.... | |
Creativity and Schizophrenia: The Definite Link
Researchers at the Karolinska Institute's department of women's and children's health in Stockholm have proven a link between creativity and schizophrenia. They studied the brain and the dopamine D2 receptors and discovered that the dopamine system of healthy, highly creative people mirrors that found in people with schizophrenia.... | |
Senators Propose HITECH Incentives For Mental Health
A bill proposing to extend Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) financial incentives for e-health record use by mental health professionals has been introduced into the U.S. Senate.... | |
Yes, We Can
On July 26, NAMI California Board Member Keris Myrick attended the White House Ceremony in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disibilities Act. This is her account.... | |
|
|
|
