Harvard Mental Health Letter articles from November 2006

Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from November 2006

Men and depression.
November 1, 2006... In treatments, attention must be paid to sexual and other issues. Depression is sometimes called the common cold of mental health, but it's unlike the common cold in at least two important respects: It doesn't go away in a week without...

Assertive community treatment.
November 1, 2006... In the mid-1970s, as the exodus of patients from state mental hospitals accelerated, mental health professionals in Madison, Wisconsin, developed a new approach to helping the mentally ill cope with life on the outside. More popular than ever,...

In Brief; When is it epilepsy?
November 1, 2006... In vulnerable people, emotional conflict, stress, or an abnormal need for attention can result in symptoms that uncannily resemble true epileptic seizures. These episodes, once called pseudoseizures, are now usually called psychogenic...

In Brief; Counting your blessings and keeping up with the Joneses.(surveys of hedonic treadmill)
November 1, 2006... Surveys and psychological experiments show that you probably won't be any happier in the long run if you win the lottery today, or less happy in the long run even if you lose your job or your marriage breaks up tomorrow. It's been found that...

In Brief; Children of depression.
November 1, 2006... Two new studies throw light on how children are affected by a parent's depression and its treatment. In the first study, 101 people, average age 35, of parents who had been treated for depression at clinics were compared with 51 matched...

Commentary; Human pheromones.(pheremones and human sexual behavior)
November 1, 2006... Biologists have long known that substances called pheromones influence sexual behavior in animals, but what of their effect in the human animal? Pheromones are chemicals released from one animal that evoke a change in the behavior or...