Groundbreaking mental health study to be repeated 30 years later
A sweeping study of children’s mental health is being updated (Getty Images ) A Hamilton study that became the gold standard globally for measuring children’s mental health is being updated and will once again be lead by Hamilton experts. The Ontario Child Health Study was co-authored by the late Dr. Dan Offord in 1983 and [...]
How Exercise Can Moderate Brain Damage Caused By Drinking
Image Source / Getty Images Aging and drinking result in similar changes in the brain, and if aerobic exercise can alleviate the age-based damage, could…
Study: Believing in God Helps Treat Mental Health Disorders – Opposing Views
A study suggests that believing in God leads to better results after psychiatric treatment. The research was published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. It…
Creative Arts Therapies Up Mental Health for Cancer Patients
(HealthDay News) – For cancer patients, creative arts therapies (CATs) are associated with improvements in psychological symptoms and quality of life, according to a systematic review…
National Institute Of Mental Health Forsakes the DSM, the Bible Of Psychiatry
Tragic stories of misdiagnosis, over-medication, and addiction to prescription medications abound in psychiatry. Though the field asserts that its diagnostic system, described in the American…
Psychopaths and Callous Children Show Dysfunctional Brain Responses to People In Pain
Jose Luis Pelaez / Getty Images Children who cruelly disregard other people’s pain and psychopathic criminal offenders show…
New research on mental health services
When young adults are transferred from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to the Adult psychiatry it can mean a…
Schools may help close gap to mental health services for adolescents
Using data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), a group of researchers led by Dr.…
How Single or Dual Parenting Affects Early Brain Development
sidsnapper / Getty Images It’s a study in mice, but results from an intriguing experiment suggests that having…
Mediterranean Diet Improves Memory, But Not In Diabetics
Annabelle Breakey / Getty Images The largest study to date on the effects of eating omega-3 fatty acids…
