Mental Health Weekly Digest articles

Recent articles from Mental Health Weekly Digest

Dangerous college drinking: Prevention is possible, studies suggest.
June 29, 2009... Alcohol is sometimes seen as part and parcel of college life, but there are programs that can significantly reduce students' risky drinking, according to a series of studies in a special college drinking supplement of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (see also Journal of Studies on...

New MedPredict Report Reveals Top Alzheimer's Experts' Insights on Diagnostics and Treatments in Development Pipeline.(Report)
June 29, 2009... MedPredict Market Research, a global provider of pharmaceutical competitive intelligence and market research, has published a new report entitled "Thought Leader Insight & Analysis: Alzheimer's Disease," designed to provide critical strategic insight for pharma and biotech companies with a...

Studies from Nagoya City University in the area of Alzheimer disease published.(Report)
June 29, 2009... In this recent report published in the journal Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, researchers in Nagoya, Japan conducted a study "To examine the effect of neuropsychiatric symptoms on longitudinal changes in the quality of life (QOL) of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). First, we...

Data on anxiety disorders published by I.A.C. Vermeltfoort and colleagues.
June 29, 2009... "A possible link between the heart and brain has been reported for cardiac syndrome X. Anxiety disorder could be a pathophysiological mechanism for this cardiac chest pain. To the authors' knowledge, a quantitative analysis correlating anxiety with the extent of ischemia has not been done,"...

Investigators at Australian National University have published new data on anxiety disorders.
June 29, 2009... "There have been no previous studies of the variables that predict adherence to online depression and anxiety intervention programs among adolescents. However, research of traditionally delivered intervention programs for a variety of health conditions in adolescence suggests that health...