Mental Health Articles

Study Implicates Gene Abnormalities In Bipolar Disorder

The largest genetic analysis of its kind to date for bipolar disorder has implicated machinery involved in the balance of sodium and calcium in brain cells.

Canada Confirms Funding For Mental Health Commission

Canada Minister of Health announced that the Government's funding commitment to the Canadian Mental Health Commission is now confirmed at $130 million over its 10-year mandate.

Antidepressants Can Negatively Affect Driving Skills

People taking anti-depressants for managing depression have significantly lowered driving skills.

Antidepressants Appear to Impact Driving Safety

People taking prescription antidepressants appear to drive worse than people who aren’t taking such drugs, and that depressed people on antidepressants have even more trouble concentrating and reacting behind the wheel.

Genes May Make Some People More Prone To Anxiety

Inborn differences may help explain why trauma gives some people bad memories and others the nightmare of post-traumatic stress. Scientists in Germany and the United States have reported evidence linking genes to anxious behavior.

Video Games Contribute To Learning Experiences

The skills that are developed while playing video games transfer to classroom, surgical procedures and scientific thinking.

APA Says No No Psychologist Should Be Involved In Interrogation

No psychologist - APA member or not - should be directly or indirectly involved in any form of detention or interrogation that could lead to psychological or physical harm to a detainee. APA has specifically prohibited 19 interrogation techniques as torture, noting that this list is not exhaustive. No psychologist should ever have any involvement, direct or indirect, in the use of such techniques, which include waterboarding, hooding, forced nudity or stress positions, in an interrogation. Doing so would be a clear violation of the profession's ethical standards.

Authors Says Thimerosal Increases Autism In Children

See Video

Robert Kennedy talks about the cover up regarding vaccines and Autism. In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session -- only private invitations to fifty-two attendees.

Color-Changing Bath Lamp Believed To Provide Healing

The Japanese believe that LED lighting will bring healing or soothing effect, which releases all the stress from your body. It would be a plus, when LED soothing is applied together with some aroma, especially when you’re bathing.

How to Create the Life You Really Want

Tips your Parents or Grandparents may not have given you (but should have!) from a 90 year old Veteran, Businessman, Husband, Father & Grandfather.