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News from all corners of
the world

Department of Health

Quality outcomes for people with dementia: Building on the work of the National
Dementia Strategy
Essence of Care 2010: Benchmarks for promoting health and well-being

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National News

Health And Social Care Workforce To Have Their Say On Autism Training
As part of the adult autism strategy the National Autistic Society, funded by the Department of
Health, is conducting research into the learning and development needs of the mainstream
health and social care workforce

Labour leader Ed Miliband backs national care service

The Labour Party's new leader Ed Miliband backs the creation of a national care service to
provide social care free at the point of need for older and disabled people

Memorial for people with eating disorders in UK

The first national Service of Dedication for lives lost to eating disorders has taken place in
London's Southwark Cathedral

CQC Lifts Condition On West London Mental Health NHS Trust

The Care Quality Commission today lifted one of three conditions placed on West London
Mental Health Trust after it showed it has systems to ensure patients' detention papers were
properly renewed under the Mental Health Act

South West organisations win £100k to develop dementia services

A service in the South-west, for people with dementia, has won funding worth £100,000 over
three years

Care minister Burstow unveils plan to improve dementia care

Dementia patients and their carers will be encouraged to hold councils and the NHS to account
for their performance on dementia care as part of a shift away from top-down intervention

Vulnerable elderly 'forced to pay for medical care'

Vulnerable elderly people are being unfairly forced to pay for health care, the new chairman of
the House of Commons health committee says

Midlife crisis starts at 35, according to Relate

The midlife crisis now starts at 35, according to a survey that found people in their thirties and

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Scots anti-depressant use rising

More people in Scotland are using anti-depressants, the latest figures have suggested

Mental health budget cuts 'would be devastating'

Cuts in the mental health budget in Northern Ireland would have devastating consequences, a
counselling chief warned today

Number of children in care rises by 6%

The number of looked-after children in England has risen by 6% (64, 400) since last year, new
statistics from the Department for Education show

Spending review cuts impossible for councils to deliver

Councils will find it impossible to deliver the cuts to adult social care expected in the coming
spending review without a change in their statutory responsibilities, directors have warned

Munro finds reforms have damaged frontline social work

Previous reforms to the social care system have led to social workers spending less time with
vulnerable children and families

New treatment approved for major depressive disorder

AstraZeneca has received UK approval for Seroquel XL (quetiapine prolonged release) as an
add-on treatment for depressive episodes in patients with major depressive disorder who have
had suboptimal response to antidepressant monotherapy

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International News

Leading Practitioners Recommend Global PTSD Treatment Guidelines

In recent years, several guidelines in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder have been
put into practice globally

Helping Young Adults Self-Manage Mental Illness With E-SMART Technologies

While many young adults will share the details of their daily lives with dozens - sometimes
hundreds - of friends on Facebook, communicating with their health care providers about
mental illness is another story

New depression guidelines favor tailored treatment

The guidelines, issued on Friday by the American Psychiatric Association, are the first update
on depression treatment in more than a decade

World Mental Health Day

10th October

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Teens Disproportionately Affected by Mental Disorders

The percentage of youth suffering from a mental disorder is even greater than the most frequent
major physical conditions in adolescence, including diabetes or asthma

Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism,

Frequent Family Dinners Linked To Lower Tobacco, Alcohol And Marijuana Use Among
Teens
American teenagers who regularly have family dinners are much less likely to have used drugs,
alcohol or marijuana compared to their peers who have family dinners infrequently

Popularity Affects Drug And Alcohol Consumption

The consumption of drugs and alcohol by teenagers is not just about rebellion or emotional
troubles

New Method To Detect Cocaine Stored In Alcohol - From Outside The Bottle
In two landmark studies UK and Swiss research teams reveal two techniques proven to identify
dissolved cocaine in bottles of wine or rum

Association Between Father's Incarceration And Elevated Risks Of Marijuana And Other
Illegal Drug Use
Researchers report evidence of an association between father's incarceration and substantially
elevated risks for illegal drug use in adolescence and early adulthood

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Addictions

Study Links Some Cannabis Strains With Memory Impairment

People who smoke potent strains of cannabis that are low in cannabidiol (such as skunk) are
putting themselves at far greater risk of acute memory loss than people who smoke other types
of the drug

Anxiety Disorders

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Anxiety

Anxiety and outcome evaluation: The good, the bad and the ambiguous
Previous research has indicated that anxious individuals are more prone to evaluate ambiguous
information as negative compared to non-anxious individuals

Temporal stability and coherence of anxiety, dyspnea, and physiological variables in

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Twenty-five panic disorder patients, 19 social phobics, and 20 healthy controls sat quietly for
15 min, rating their anxiety and dyspnea every 30 s while respiratory, cardiovascular, and
electrodermal responses were recorded

Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Outperform Usual Care in
Community Clinics? An Initial Effectiveness Test
Most tests of cognitive behavioral therapy for youth anxiety disorders have shown beneficial
effects, but these have been efficacy trials with recruited youths treated by researcher-
employed therapists

Dementia
Alzheimer’s

Friends, Family Detect Early Alzheimer's Signs Better Than Traditional Tests
Family members and close friends are more sensitive to early signs of Alzheimer's dementia
than traditional screening tests

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Alzheimer’s

Evidence Supporting Technology-Based Interventions for People with Early-Stage

Alzheimer's Disease
Innovative uses of technology offer many exciting possibilities for better care and improved
quality of life for people with Alzheimer's disease and their families

The effect of memantine on sleep behaviour in dementia with Lewy bodies and
Parkinson's disease dementia
Two common and characteristic sleep disturbances have been described in dementia with Lewy
bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia

Depression
Bipolar disorders

Abortion Does Not Cause Depression Or Low Self-Esteem In Adolescents, National

Study Finds
A new study has determined that teenagers who have abortions are no more likely to become
depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers whose pregnancies do not end in abortion

Partners of breast cancer patients 'may be at risk of mood disorders'

Men whose partners have breast cancer often face an increased risk of mood disorders, a study
has found

Middle-aged suicides on rise in U.S., study finds

Suicide rates for middle-aged people are edging up -- particularly for white men without college
degrees -- and a combination of poor health and a poor economy may be driving it

Family history of autoimmune diseases not linked to bipolar disorder

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with an increased risk for bipolar disorder

Heightened suicide risk after weight-loss surgery

Severely obese people who undergo weight-loss surgery may have a higher-than-average risk
of suicide in the years following the procedure, a new study finds

Family-focused treatment benefits caregivers of bipolar patients

A family-focused intervention significantly reduces depression levels and health risk behaviors
in caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder

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Link Between Certain Psychiatric Disorders And Risky Sexual Behavior In Teens
According to researchers, teens who experience the manic phase of bipolar disorder are more
sexually active, have more sexual partners and are more likely to have a sexually transmitted
infection

Public Awareness Campaign Lowers Male Suicides In German City

A recent study revealed that men might connect strongly to publicity campaigns about
depression and suicide, particularly when they have options for anonymous help

Cuts in the mental health budget in Northern Ireland would have devastating
consequences, a counselling chief warned today
Many researchers have studied the relationship between the increase in sales of new
antidepressants in recent decades and a simultaneous decline in the suicide rate

Bipolar features linked to treatment resistance in unipolar depression

Bipolarity features are significantly associated with treatment resistance in patients diagnosed
with unipolar depression

Siblings of bipolar patients show reduced executive function and memory

The unaffected siblings of patients with bipolar disorder show deficits in executive functions and
memory relative to mentally healthy individuals without a family history of the condition

Dual Diagnosis

Mindfulness-based treatments for co-occurring depression and substance use

disorders: what can we learn from the brain?
Both depression and substance use disorders represent major global public health concerns
and are often co-occurring

Influence of the serotonin transporter gene polymorphism, cannabis and childhood

sexual abuse on phenotype of bipolar disorder: A preliminary study
The short allele and cannabis abuse were significantly more frequent among patients with
psychotic symptoms than in those without , while childhood sexual abuse was not

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Better Screening Urged for Self-Injury in Teens

Not all kids who intentionally cut or burn themselves meet 'classic profile,' expert says

Learning Disabilities

New study claims ADHD 'has a genetic link'

The first direct evidence of a genetic link to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has been
found, a study says

ADHD genes only part of the story

Error processing in high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

Studies report error-processing abnormalities in high-functioning individuals with Autism
Spectrum Disorders that may be influenced by intelligence and autism severity

Distinguishing features of autism in boys with fragile X syndrome

Males with fragile X syndrome and autism represent a distinct subgroup of males with FXS at
risk for markedly poorer outcomes. Early identification and intervention can improve outcomes
for males with autism spectrum disorder

Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders

Enlargement of Thalamic Nuclei in Tourette Syndrome

Morphological abnormalities in the thalamus, together with the disturbances reported in the
sensorimotor cortex, striatum, and globus pallidus, support the hypothesis of a circuitwide
disorder within motor pathways

Reduced Brain White Matter Integrity in Trichotillomania

These data implicate disorganization of white matter tracts involved in motor habit generation
and suppression, along with affective regulation, in the pathophysiology of trichotillomania

Predictors and Moderators of Treatment Outcome in the Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive

Treatment Study (POTS I)
Greater attention is needed to build optimized intervention strategies for more complex youth
with OCD

The obsessive–compulsive spectrum in the perinatal period: a prospective pilot study

This study aims to describe the phenomenology of obsessive–compulsive symptoms (OCS) and
disorders (OCD) in perinatal women and to explore the relationship of OCS/OCD to postpartum
depression

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The effects on cognitive functions of a movement-based intervention in patients with

Alzheimer's type dementia: a pilot study
The present study shows that a short course of non-aerobic movement based exercise is
already effective at least in some aspects of cognitive functioning in patients with AD

Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder

Early Intervention Drastically Reduces PTSD in Children

When children witness or experience a potentially traumatic event, such as a car accident, a
sports injury, a physical or sexual assault or violence, as many as 1 in 5 will develop Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder

Prolonged Exposure Versus Dynamic Therapy for Adolescent PTSD: A Pilot Randomized
Controlled Trial

Brief individual therapy is effective in decreasing posttraumatic distress and behavioral trauma-
focused components enhance efficacy

Psychology

How Reasonable It Is to Deceive Yourself?

Anyone who simply denies the facts is most certainly behaving unreasonably -- aren't they?

Racial Disparity In Psychological Elder Abuse

In the first population-based survey to indicate a racial disparity in the psychological abuse of
senior citizens, University of Pittsburgh researchers found that African American seniors could
be twice as likely to be mistreated than elders of other races

Stigma and Client Satisfaction in Mental Health Services

Numerous studies have revealed that stigmatization of persons with mental health problems
has a large array of negative consequences

Schizophrenia

Traumatic brain injury linked to increased schizophrenia risk in Asians

Asian individuals who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at increased risk for

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Right amygdala hypertrophy linked to suicide attempts in schizophrenia patients

Results from an Italian study suggest that right amygdala hypertrophy is associated with an
increased risk for suicide attempts in patients with schizophrenia

Antipsychotic switching prevalent in schizophrenia

Antipsychotic switching is common in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and can be
predicted by a small number of variables

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Schizophrenia

Glutamate And Dopamine: Biological Predictors Of The Transition To Psychosis?

There is growing evidence that two neurotransmitters - dopamine and glutamate - are abnormal
in people with psychotic illness, including schizophrenia

Neurocognitive deficits evident in adolescents with psychotic-like symptoms

Adolescents with psychotic-like symptoms have impairments in receptive language, motor
function, and executive function/speed of processing

Social Work

Spontaneous and Reflexive Cognitions Related to Spousal Abuse: The Role of

Experiences of Violence
The aim of this study was to investigate the recognition of violent behaviors, assessment of their
severity, and reaction time in recognizing violent behaviors among individuals who have been
exposed to spousal abuse, either as victim or aggressor, and those who have not reported such
experiences

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Books, Conferences,
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press
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Social Work and Social Welfare: An Introduction

Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding: International ed of 2nd revised ed

Race and Ethnicity: Cultural Roles, Spiritual Practices and Social Challenges

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2nd Revised edition

The Effect of Childhood Emotional Maltreatment on Later Intimate Relationships

Bipolar Disorder: Clinical and Neurobiological Foundations

Cognitive Deficit in Mental and Neurological Disorders

Defying Dementia: Understanding and Preventing Alzheimer's and Related Disorders

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