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US: Massive children's
health study planned (12/20/04)
New Israelian research center for studies of brain disease (11/23/04)
US: Are the country's
foundations overlooking mental health?
(10/14/04)
Questionnable questionnaire
at New York University may face legal action
(09/23/04)
US: Oklahoma tops
mental illness list (08/10/04)
The fear of becoming
sick big among siblings of persons with schizophrenia
(07/24/04)
One room, three
thousand brains (06/15/04)
Australia: High rates
of mental illness among jail inmates
(05/28/04)
What is schizophrenia
and what is not? (04/24/04)
Virginia, US: An employment
program for the mentally ill
(03/29/04)
New Zealand: Scientist
urges dairy industry to stop producing A1 beta casein-containing
milk (02/28/04)
Many doctors find
it hard to diagnose and treat teenagers with mental illness
(01/11/04) US:
Massive children's health study
planned (12/20/04) Australia:
Mental illness hidden at work (12/11/04) Danish
hospitals turn to music in treating mentally ill patients (12/04/04) New
Israelian research center for studies of brain disease (11/23/04) US: Are the
country's foundations overlooking mental health? (10/14/04) US: NAMI helps
train law-enforcement officers to handle calls from mentally ill
people (10/06/04) One in twenty
in the UK have experienced psychotic symptoms (10/06/04) United Kingdom:
Actors recruited to identify and help people mental illness (10/01/04) Double diagnosis
may prevent abusers from recovering (10/01/04) Questionnable
questionnaire at New York University may face legal action (09/23/04) US: Thousands
of inmates with mental illness don't get proper care in prisons
(09/18/04) Israel: Law
prevents immigrants with mental illness to get their citizenship
applications approved (09/18/04) US: The
Music Festival for Mental Health raises money for the mentally ill
(09/11/04) Mental health
court program successful (08/03/04) The fear of
becoming sick big among siblings of persons with schizophrenia
(07/24/04) American
advocates: Courts should make sure mentally ill get proper treatment
(07/23/04) Students
today have more serious problems today than in the past (07/20/04) Program helps
mentally ill complete their education (07/15/04) Indian campaign
to fight mental illness (07/10/04) The British
government urges the Brits to avoid sunblock (07/10/04) Scotland:
Prejudice against the mentally ill common (07/10/04) One room,
three thousand brains (06/15/04) Treatment of
mental disorders inadequate in developing countries (06/12/04) Religion and
psychotherapy (06/02/04) Australia: High
rates of mental illness among jail inmates (05/28/04) No risk of
increased criminality among the mentally ill (05/23/04) Weight program
may prevent weight increase in patients on antipsychotic medication
(05/02/04) What is
schizophrenia and what is not schizophrenia? (04/24/04) Dance therapy
for mental patients (04/09/04) International
study of stigma of mental illness (04/09/04) Virginia, US:
An employment program for the mentally ill (03/29/04) Wales: Ten
million pound to new centre for brain research (03/09/04) New Zealand: Scientist
urges dairy industry to stop producing A1 beta casein-containing
milk (02/28/04) Many doctors
find it hard to diagnose and treat teenagers with mental illness
(01/11/04) Summary about
schizophrenia and psychosis from The Swedish National Board of Health
and Welfare (01/08/04) California:
Inmates cannot be forced to take antispychotic medications (01/07/04) 
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The
National Children's Study is the largest study of children's health
and development ever conducted in the United States. The study will
begin in 2007 and the aim is to investigate what
risks kids are exposed to in their environment and how these risks
affect the risk for disorders such as asthma, obesity, autism, learning
disabilities and schizophrenia.
A
new research project at Danish Horsens Hospital's psychiatric ward
shows that music therapy is a competent substitute for medicine
in many cases in treating the mentally ill. The researchers found
that 87 percent of all patients who voluntarily admitted themselves
for inpatient treatment for anxiety-related conditions benefited
from music therapy.
A
new research center, The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center, has opened
at Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Center i Israel. The aim is to bring
together scientists and doctors from inside and outside the hospital
to focus on brain research. The ultimate goal: to prevent and even
cure brain disorders, such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
Non-Jews
married to Israeli citizens who apply for Israeli citizenship are
asked to sign a declaration stating, among other things, that they
do not have a psychiatric illness. Applicants who give a false declaration
may have their citizenship revoked, and be deported, along with
their spouse. "This requirement is illegal, infuriating, constitutes
an infringement on human dignity and privacy, and stigmatizes the
mentally ill as people who should not be given citizenship,"
attorney Gilad Barnea, a member of the Jerusalem city council.
An
investigation performed by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration shows that of all US states, Oklahoma has
the highest proportion of people with mental illness. 11.4 percent
of the Oklahoma residents suffer from a serious mentall illness,
compared to 8.3 percent, which is the number for the entire nation.
The reliability of the study has however been partly questioned.
Every
year the refusal to take medication to treat a mental illnesses
leads to assaults, killings and suicides that could have been prevented.
At the same time, a legal tool to enforce treatment is seldom used,
American advocates for the mental ill say in an article in Ohio
paper The Advocate.
Counselors
at American collage counseling centers say students have more serious
problems today than students had 10 or 20 years ago. Issues in the
past, concerning things like grades or problems with parents, have
today been replaced with more serious mental and psychological problems.
Having
a mental illness can can have a severe impact on completing a formal
education. Northern Lights, an adult day rehabilitation support
center in the US, provide help to adults who suffer from serious
mental illness, like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or clinical
depression. Activities include seminars, cooking and help with completing
an education.
Around
seven million Indians suffer from schizophrenia. Now the president
of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, stresses the necessity to remove the
stigma associated with mental illness. In February this year, a
nationwide campaign was launched, aimed at providing more patients
with early intervention. The campaign is hoped to reduce the number
of people in India with mental illness.
Sunbathers
are normally - primarily because of the risk of developing skin
cancer - recommended to use protecting sun lotion. Now new research
in Britain says sunblock should be avoided, since the sun radiation
stimulates the production of vitamin D, which in turn prevents many
cancers, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, raised blood
pressure, infertility, infections, and dental problems. 
A WHO (World Health Organization) study concludes that serious mental
health disorders are common globally, and go largely untreated in
especially developing countries. The study found that 75 to 85 percent
of people with serious cases of mental disorder in developing countries
don't get treated, while 35 to 50 percent don't get treated in developed
countries.
According
to experts, religion and psychiatry are moving closer to each other.
"There's much less resistance than I have ever seen from religious
people to sending someone to a psychiatrist," says University
of Utah psychiatry professor David Tomb. An article at desertnews.com
disusses the topic.
High
rates of mental illness among prisoners in Australian prisons suggest
prisons are filling the gaps for the country's failing mental health
system. More than one of four prisoners has been diagnosed with
mental illness at some stage of their lives and one in six has been
admitted to a psychiatric ward. Fifteen percent of prisoners are
being medicated for a mental health problem. Depression is the most
common condition, followed by schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Antipsychotic
medication against schizophrenia and other mental illnesses may
lead to weight increase. A new study shows obese adults taking atypical
antipsychotic medications were able to significantly decrease their
weight and body mass index (BMI) by participating in a year-long
weight management program.
An
project - The Reach4Dance initiative - has been launched to use
the power of dance to improve the lives of people with mental illness
to help them. The
background to this initiative is that dance and movement are known
to have physical and psychological benefits for those with mental
illness.
An
agricultural scientist in New Zealand is urging the country's dairy
industry to start producing only pure A2 milk. The A2 milk is free
of A1 beta casein, a protein that has been suggested to be linked
to type 1 diabetes and heart disease. Other papers have implicated
A1 milk in autism and mental disorders such as schizophrenia.
Several
psychiatric conditions are characterized by psychotic symptoms.
Common signs of psychosis is that the afflicted person's sense of
reality changes, he or she starts to hear voices, feels followed,
and thinks or talks inconsistently. The Swedish National Board of
Health and Welfare recently published a summary about schizophrenia
and psychosis, for patients and people who are in need of care and
help.