http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Non-communicable diseases (NCD) and mental disorders each constitute a huge portion of the worldwide health care burden, and often occur together, so they should be addressed together. These are the conclusions of the third article in a series published in PLOS Medicine that provides a global perspective on integrating mental health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mental-health-ncds.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 14 May 2013 17:24:30 EST news287771060 (HealthDay)—After completing a review of existing research, an expert panel has determined that there is not enough evidence to recommend that all teens and adults be screened for suicide risk factors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-benefit-screening-patients-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:40:03 EST news285940394 Research led by Ya-Ping Tang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that the action of a specific gene occurring during exposure to adolescent trauma is critical for the development of adult-onset Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD.) The findings are published in PNAS Online Early Edition the week of April 1-5, 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-co-factors-critical-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:49:30 EST news284201361 (Medical Xpress)—Teachers in schools across the globe are turning to a new philosophy to help improve the behaviour and well-being of students. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-meditation-technique-children-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:24:19 EST news283595052 (HealthDay)—Opioid analgesics are involved in the majority of pharmaceutical-related overdose deaths, frequently involving drugs prescribed for mental health conditions, according to a research letter published in the Feb. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-opioids-involved-medical-overdose-deaths.html Medications Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:10:01 EST news280674055 (HealthDay)—There's a link between depression and anxiety symptoms and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder pain, a condition that affects the jaw, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-jaw-pain-disorder-tied-anxiety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:50:01 EST news278177482 Globally, health advances present most people with a devastating irony: avoid premature death but live longer and sicker. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-massive-shifts-reshape-health-landscape.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:00:21 EST news274620519 The first network of its kind endorsing an integrative approach to the treatment of mental health has been launched as part of World Mental Health Week http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-world-network-mental-health-treatments.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:25:46 EST news269087138 "Journals, professional associations, clinical guideline developers, and others need to worry not just that disclosure provides a band-aid to the real problem of the [conflict of interest] itself, but that any attempt to stem the trouble through disclosure policies may actually be worsening the problem," say the editors of PLoS Medicine writing in an editorial that discusses the response to a paper published in the Journal last month, which examined the financial conflicts of interest of members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) responsible for updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-disclosure-financial-conflicts-worsen-medical.html Other Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:00:01 EST news254505557 (Medical Xpress) -- Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-hurricane-katrina-survivors-struggle-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:01:45 EST news246693697 The World Trade Center disaster exposed nearly half a million people to hazardous chemicals, environmental toxins, and traumatic events. According to research published in the December 2011 issue of Elsevier-published journal Preventive Medicine, this has resulted in increased risk of developing physical and mental health conditions after 9/11. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-years-world-center-human-health.html Health Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:30:20 EST news242908210 Computer analysis of brain scans could help predict how severe the future illness course of a patient with psychosis will be, according to research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. The findings could allow doctors to make more accurate decisions about how best to treat patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-scientists-brain-scans-outcome-psychotic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:48:29 EST news239892502 New findings from a 16-year study confirm that the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the gold-standard for the classification of mental health conditions, can be used to accurately identify autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children with Down syndrome, according to research from Kennedy Krieger Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-validate-accuracy-autism-diagnosis-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:02:25 EST news236944933 A new study involving nearly 2,500 high school students demonstrates the value of routine mental health screening in school to identify adolescents at-risk for mental illness, and to connect those adolescents with recommended follow-up care. The largest school-based study conducted to-date by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University, findings are published in the Sept. 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-school-based-mental-health-screening-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:27:28 EST news233504836 Residents of Sri Lanka who were internally displaced during the civil conflict that occurred in their country from 1983 to 2009 have a higher prevalence of war-related mental health conditions that include depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder, according to a study in the August 3 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-persons-displaced-war-posttraumatic-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:00:06 EST news231521588 Researchers have revealed the molecular pathway that is affected during the onset of schizophrenia and successfully alleviated symptoms of the illness in mice, using a commonly used cancer drug. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-cancer-drugs-treatment-schizophrenia.html Neuroscience Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:31:09 EST news230383857 Using genetic predisposition as a factor in medical conditions presented in Canadian legal cases may diminish the impact of occupational, environmental and social factors in determining health claims, particularly workplace claims, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-genetic-predisposition-argument-canadian-courts.html Genetics Tue, 24 May 2011 12:20:24 EST news225458400 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have identified a potential target for the treatment of schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-potential-schizophrenia.html Medical research Wed, 11 May 2011 08:41:25 EST news224322048