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    How Do Colleges Address Mental Health?

    Jun 02, 2015

    A study shows more than half of college students consider anxiety to be a pressing concern.

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    Experimental medicines related to ketamine, an anesthetic and club drug, are making progress in clinical tests.
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    Depression Treatments Inspired By Club Drug Move Ahead In Tests

    May 28, 2015
    A decade ago, scientists showed that the anesthetic ketamine could relieve major depression in hours. Now, two chemical cousins of the drug are entering the late stages of clinical testing.
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    A Worrier's Guide To Life
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    Paralyzed By Doubt? Here's A Guide For The Worrier In Us All

    May 27, 2015
    You might think that anxiety disorder is no laughing matter, but illustrator Gemma Correll respectfully disagrees. She sees the humor in the mental condition that she deals with every day.
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     National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
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    Clark County gets a reality check for Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day

    May 07, 2015

    May 7, was National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day. The U.S.

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    The Two-Way
    September 13, 2015 photo of Andreas Lubitz, who is believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings flight 9525 into a mountain in southern France on March 24, 2015, killing all 150 people on board.
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    Documents Show FAA Questioned Mental Fitness of Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz

    Apr 30, 2015
    Newly released documents show the FAA initially declined to give Andreas Lubitz a medical certificate for his U.S. pilot's license because of his history of depression.
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    To Weather Criticism, It Helps To Think Of The Big Picture

    Apr 24, 2015
    Negative feedback is supposed to be good for us, but it sure doesn't feel so good. Shifting the context by thinking more broadly helps blunt the sting, a study found. So does embracing change.
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    Mental health care advocates say patients face challenges in insurance coverage.
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    When It Comes To Insurance, Mental Health Parity In Name Only?

    Apr 04, 2015
    Many insurance providers that offer mental health care are supposed to cover it just as they would cancer or diabetes care. But advocates say enforcement is a problem.
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    Most teenagers with mental health problems don't get any help.
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    New York City To Teens: TXT ME With Mental Health Worries

    Mar 27, 2015
    In an effort to connect teenagers with mental health services, New York is testing counseling via text for high school students. They join a growing trend.
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    In the 1940s, psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich touted his orgone energy accumulators, exhibited here in 1956 by the Food and Drug Administration, as a treatment for emotional disturbances. Eventually, the FDA ruled Reich's treatment to be a "fraud of the first
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    From Freud To Possession, A Doctor Faces Psychiatry's Demons

    Mar 14, 2015
    In Shrinks, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman looks at the development of what he himself calls the most distrusted, feared and denigrated of all medical specialties.
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    He's 14. He Was A Child Soldier. He's Suicidal. How Can He Be Saved?

    Mar 11, 2015
    Rates of post-traumatic stress disorder are high among teens in northern Uganda, a new study shows. Counselors, teachers and parents can help. So can walking on eggs — literally.
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    Do Parents Nurture Narcissists By Pouring On The Praise?

    Mar 09, 2015
    Telling your kids that they're superfabulous encourages narcissistic thinking, researchers say. And that doesn't bode well for their future happiness. Better to recognize effort and say, "I love you."
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    For Young People In Rural Areas, Suicide Poses A Growing Threat

    Mar 09, 2015
    Young men are twice as likely to die by suicide if they live in rural areas rather than cities, and that disparity is widening. Lack of mental health services is a factor; access to firearms is, too.
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    High-end marijuana buds on sale at a Denver dispensary.
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    Pot Can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms For Some, But Do The Effects Last?

    Mar 06, 2015
    Scientists are sharply divided on whether the disordered thinking and paranoia sometimes caused by marijuana is just a temporary thing or the start of long-term disorders like schizophrenia.
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    Caregivers who are trained in responding to anxiety or aggression in people with dementia can effectively reduce those symptoms, studies find.
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    Behavioral Therapy Helps More Than Drugs For Dementia Patients

    Mar 05, 2015
    Non-drug approaches for treating aggression and other symptoms of dementia work better than antipsychotic drugs, a study finds, and are less risky. That includes teaching caregivers how to respond.
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    What Shapes Health? Webcast Explores Social And Economic Factors

    Mar 03, 2015
    People say many things affect health, from personal behavior and childhood abuse to God's will, according to a new poll. The people behind the numbers explain what it means for people and communities.
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    Uzuri Pease-Greene talks with two police officers in the public housing complex in San Francisco where she lives.
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    People With Low Incomes Say They Pay A Price In Poor Health

    Mar 02, 2015
    People with household incomes of less than $25,000 a year say in a new poll that the lack of cash really hurts their health. Low-quality food and dangerous housing are two reasons why.
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    Poll Explores Our Perception Of How Factors Large And Small Shape People's Health

    Mar 02, 2015
    Health is not just about trips to the doctor, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Housing, stress and abuse are factors.
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    Closing loopholes in background checks for gun purchases would reduce the risk of death and injury, doctors' and attorneys' groups say.
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    Doctors Join Forces With Lawyers To Reduce Firearms Deaths

    Feb 26, 2015
    More than 32,000 people die each year in the United States in gun-related suicides, violence and accidents. The physicians seek universal background checks and other measures to reduce the toll.
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    When Kids Think Parents Play Favorites, It Can Spell Trouble

    Feb 23, 2015
    When children think they're being slighted, it can lead to risky behavior as teenagers, a study finds. Having warm, respectful relationships helps counteract the claim, "You always liked her best!"
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    Only a tiny fraction of the people at Baharka camp who need counseling and other help are receiving it.
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    Brutal ISIS Tactics Create New Levels Of Trauma Among Iraqis

    Feb 23, 2015
    The self-styled Islamic State has made a practice of public beheadings and other horrific acts of violence. It's taking a huge toll on Iraqis, only a fraction of whom are getting the help they need.
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    The ShantiNiketan retirement complex provides residents with Indian food and cultural experiences.
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    Being With People Like You Offers Comfort Against Death's Chill

    Feb 06, 2015
    Iggy Ignatius bet that immigrants from India would long to live with other Indians in his Florida condos. He was right. Psychologists say intimations of mortality make us want to be with our own kind.
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    Does Binge-Watching Make Us Depressed? Good Question

    Feb 04, 2015
    Recent headlines make it sound as if watching just a few episodes at night can make us depressed and lonely. OK, more than a few. But the science on binge-watching is just getting started.
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    Why Cambodians Never Get 'Depressed'

    Feb 02, 2015
    In many parts of the world, there's no direct translation for terms like depression or anxiety. Cambodians, for example, say "the water in my heart has fallen." So how does a doctor refill a heart?
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    Nevada Psychiatric Hospital Still Behind On Court-Ordered Admissions

    Feb 02, 2015
    Nevada’s only maximum-security psychiatric facility is still struggling to admit court-ordered patients in a timely manner. Lake’s Crossing in Sparks...
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    New Team Hopes To Prevent Confrontations Between Police And Mentally Ill

    Jan 22, 2015

    When responding to calls involving someone with mental health issues, police officers often act as law enforcement and psychologists at the same time....

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