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- Journal Highlights Effectiveness of Research Based Psychotherapies for Youth
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April 15, 2008
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Reviews of the current research on psychosocial and behavioral therapies, or psychotherapies, for children and adolescents found a number of “well established” and “probably efficacious” treatments for many mental disorders. The results were published in a special issue of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. - Maintenance Treatment Crucial for Teens’ Recovery from Depression
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April 8, 2008
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Long-term maintenance treatment is likely to sustain improvement and prevent recurrence among adolescents with major depression, according to an NIMH-funded study. - OCD Risk Higher When Several Variations in Gene Occur Together
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April 7, 2008
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Science Update
Several variations within the same gene act together to raise the risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), new NIMH research suggests. - New Research to Help People with Mental Disorders Quit Smoking
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April 4, 2008
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A new grant funded by NIMH will develop an intervention designed to help people with serious mental illness (SMI) quit smoking. - Paying More for Prescriptions May Limit Seniors’ Access to Antidepressants
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April 2, 2008
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New cost-sharing policies may prevent some older adults diagnosed with depression from filling new antidepressant prescriptions. - Newly Awarded Autism Centers of Excellence to Further Autism Research
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April 1, 2008
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on March 24, 2008, the latest recipients of the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) program. These grants will support studies covering a broad range of autism research areas, including early brain development and functioning, social interactions in infants, rare genetic variants and mutations, associations between autism-related genes and physical traits, possible environmental risk factors and biomarkers, and a potential new medication treatment. - Rates of Rare Mutations Soar Three to Four Times Higher in Schizophrenia
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March 27, 2008
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People with schizophrenia have high rates of rare genetic deletions and duplications that likely disrupt the developing brain, according to studies funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. - Autism Gene Scans Converge on Two Suspect Sites, Two Types of Genetic Risk
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March 19, 2008
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Four teams of scientists, using resources supported in part by NIMH, have pinpointed two different sites in the genome, each conferring a different type of genetic risk for autism. - Past Child Abuse Plus Variations in Gene Result in Potent PTSD Risk for Adults
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March 18, 2008
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A traumatic event is much more likely to result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults who experienced trauma in childhood – but certain gene variations raise the risk considerably if the childhood trauma involved physical or sexual abuse, scientists have found. - State Survey Finds FDA “Black Box” Warning Correlates with Curtailed Antidepressant Prescriptions
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March 14, 2008
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After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a “black box” warning on antidepressant medications, Nebraskan doctors began prescribing fewer antidepressant medications to children and teens and referring more patients to specialists, according to a state survey.
