Mental Health Weekly Digest articles from April 2003

Mental Health Weekly Digest archives from April 2003

Ubiquitin-immunoreactive neuronal inclusions appear to be markers for dementia.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ubiquitin-immunoreactive neuronal inclusions appear to be markers for dementia. "Dementia is thought to be an uncommon complication of motor neuron disease (MND). In addition to the characteristic...

PTSD patients have lower glucocorticoid receptor expression in lymphocytes.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PTSD patients have lower glucocorticoid receptor expression in lymphocytes. According to a study from Croatia, "Assessment of the intracellular glucocorticoid receptor (GCR) level may be useful in...

Hope was not altered by knowledge of disease status or pain in cancer patients.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hope was not altered by knowledge of disease status or pain in cancer patients. According to a study from Taiwan, "The importance of hope in determining the adjustment of patients with cancer to...

Young gay men are anxious, depressed, and ignorant of their HIV status.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An alarming number of young gay men appear to be highly anxious and depressed, expressing high levels of self-hatred and low self-esteem, according to new research funded by the ESRC. And while...

VeriCare initiative responds to Medicare Policy Change.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved Medicare coverage for health- and behavior-based procedures to prevent, treat, or manage physical health problems and chronic illness last...

Psychiatric Solutions reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2002 results.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Psychiatric Solutions, (PSI), Inc., (PSYS) announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2002. Revenue for the fourth quarter increased 82.2% to $35,822,000 from...

Overlake and Evergreen collaborate to expand behavioral health.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Washington-based Overlake Hospital Medical Center and Evergreen Hospital Medical Center have once again entered into collaboration, this time to provide psychiatric consultation services for patients at...

PSAs warn quality of life at risk for Americans with developmental disabilities.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Television public service announcements were released warning that the independence and quality of life of disabled Americans is being threatened by a work shortage of private direct support...

Cancer patients and their relatives disagree on the quality of support.
April 7, 2003... 2003 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cancer patients and their relatives disagree in the quality of support. According to recent research from Norway, "This article presents findings from a study of 536 patients with cancer and 473 of...

Doctors show higher levels of psychological problems than other professionals.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Doctors exhibit higher levels of psychological disturbance than people in equivalent professional occupations, finds a new study from Britain. Researchers tried to establish the size and nature of...

Major depression remains a risk for chronic hepatitis C patients on interferon.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Major depression remains a risk for chronic hepatitis C patients on interferon. "This study examined the incidence, clinical course and its risk factors for major depression in patients with...

Mothers' psychological symptoms influence which children go to the doctor.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children whose mothers are the most depressed, anxious, and report high levels of psychosomatic symptoms are twice as likely to be taken to a doctor when they complain of a stomach ache or abdominal...

St. John's wort compared with citalopram in NIH trial.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a new approach to research on minor depression, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a 4-year study to determine the safety and effectiveness of St. John's wort, a common herbal...

Researchers believe "silent" strokes boost risk.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Symptomless, unnoticed strokes more than double the risk of developing Alzheimer disease, according to a large Dutch study that suggests many people could prevent the mind-robbing disorder by keeping...

Eating disordered behaviors are often secret.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Many times eating disorders go undetected by family members and friends. This is due to the veil of secrecy that surrounds eating disorders. Remuda Ranch, a treatment facility for women and...

APA offers materials to build resilience during war time.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Psychological Association (APA) announced that it is offering materials free to the public that can help people build resilience in a time of war. "We're already getting a demand for...

Program has significant effect on recovery from severe brain, spinal injuries.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients seeking rehabilitation for severe brain or spinal trauma must search for the specialty services they need. The only freestanding specialty acute care hospital between Los Angeles and the...

Sex differences cannot be traced to the risk for dementia.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sex differences can't be traced to the risk for dementia. "We used two Swedish twin samples to test whether women are at greater risk than men of developing dementia and whether there are sex...

ETS2 overexpression is linked to p53 dependent apoptosis.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chromosome 21 abnormality involved in Down syndrome, creates overexpression of ETS2 which induces p53 dependent apoptosis; this may be involved in the formation of syndrome symptoms and pathology. ...

Bupropion triples quit rates among women, formerly depressed smokers.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The use of the antidepressant sustained release bupropion triples quit rates among women and smokers with a history of depression as compared to placebo, according to a new study just published in...

Doctor issued patent on biomarker linking autism, ADD, ADHD.
April 14, 2003... 2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Joan Fallon announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued to her patent #6,534,063 entitled "Methods of Treatment of Pervasive Developmental Disorders." The...

Depression has negative impact on surgery outcome.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Symptoms of depression are far more than feelings of sadness. In fact, clinical depression can have a significant impact on how people function physically in their daily lives following coronary artery...

Novel treatment results in less brain damage.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stroke patients will be welcoming the news of a discovery by a University of Alberta scientist that may have significant future implications for treatment of the disease. Dr. Fred Colbourne, from the...

Improvement in cognition reported in patients treated with memantine, donepezil.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Forest Laboratories, Inc., (FRX) announced that researchers have presented results from the first U.S. clinical trial evaluating a combination therapy for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease at the...

The reach-to-grasp movement is characteristically distinct in autistic children.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Autistic children have different planning and execution of movement, and one way to differentiate them is the reach to grasp movement. According to published research from England, "Autism is...

Neuroleptic drugs upregulate interleukin-2 and interferon-gamma in vitro.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neuroleptic drugs used for treatment of schizophrenia do appear to alter cytokine production in blood, while an antidepressant drug did not. According to recent research from Germany, "Alterations...

Intellectual and neuropsychological outcome is similar to all chemo patients.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pediatric IQ and neuropsychological sequelae were about the same for leukemia and solid tumor chemotherapy patients. According to recent research published in the European Journal of Cancer, "One...

C1q-calreticulin induces oxidative neurotoxicity and Abeta accumulation.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Binding of complement by neurons creates reactive oxygen species and the stress reaction can be partially blocked by Abeta, thus Alzheimer disease plaque formation may be a reaction to ROS. ...

Dementia patients have increased serum macrophage colony stimulating factor.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alzheimer disease patients have increased serum cytokine macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF), and this correlated with degree of dementia. "There was impairment of immune function in...

14.3.3 zeta protein colocalizes with PrPsc in all forms of CJD.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Zeta protein 14.3.3 is present in CJD and colocalizes with PrPsc, is not colocalized with betaA4 in Alzheimer plaques, and not present in Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker (GSS) plaques. According to...

Same gene found to cause both mental retardation, neurodegenerative condition.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have recently discovered a progressive neurodegenerative condition - resulting in tremor, balance problems, and dementia - which may affect as many as 1 in 3,000 men. This condition has now...

Novel assay useful for evaluating neuroprotective agents.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel assay can help determine the efficacy of neuroprotective agents for patients with advanced HIV disease. HIV-associated central nervous system disorders, "including encephalopathy, often...

NIMH launches campaign to reach men with depression.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, announced the launch of the first national campaign to raise awareness that depression is a major public...

NDA filed for Estorra.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sepracor, Inc., (SEPR) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has filed Sepracor's New Drug Application (NDA) for Estorra brand eszopiclone 2 mg and 3 mg tablets for the treatment...

APA survey: War just one more stress for already-stressed therapy patients.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Contrary to what one might expect, people in therapy reported no difference in their stress levels once the war with Iraq started - but that may be only because war was seen as just one more stressor...

Chronic active lesions have astrocytes expressing B7-1 and B7-2.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Astrocytes in active lesions of multiple sclerosis do express B7-1 and B7-2 molecules that enable them to act as antigen presenting cells. According to a study from Netherlands, "Astrocytes in...

No NF kappa B and AP-1 DNA binding activity was noted to activate T cells.
April 28, 2003... 2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There were no differences noted in NF kappa B and AP-1 DNA binding activity that would serve as transcription activators for T cell activation in multiple sclerosis. "Current evidence suggests...