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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9F0B6388-F38A-4A34-917B-FA2C242D924D/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/11/sleep-problem-can-lead-to-memory-loss/2441.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/11/sleep-problem-can-lead-to-memory-loss/2441.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-2441"><A title="Permanent Link: Sleep Problem Can Lead to Memory Loss" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/11/sleep-problem-can-lead-to-memory-loss/2441.html">Sleep Problem Can Lead to Memory Loss</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/11/sleep-problem-can-lead-to-memory-loss/2441.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/11/sleep-problem-can-lead-to-memory-loss/2441.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/43D8A9AD-54FF-45F0-8DA8-5C34B07E022A.jpg" alt="woman" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">New research suggests a common sleep disorder can lead to memory loss. In the study, UCLA scientists discovered people with sleep apnea show tissue loss in brain regions that help store memory. <P>Reported in the June 27 edition of the journal <EM>Neuroscience Letters</EM>, the findings emphasize the importance of early detection of the disorder, which afflicts an estimated 20 million Americans.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“Our findings demonstrate that impaired breathing during sleep can lead to a serious brain injury that disrupts memory and thinking,” said principal investigator Ronald Harper, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Harper hypothesizes that repeated drops in oxygen lead to the brain injury. During an apnea episode, the brain’s blood vessels constrict, starving its tissue of oxygen and causing cellular death. The process also incites inflammation, which further damages the tissue. </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/11/sleep-problem-can-lead-to-memory-loss/2441.htmlWed, 11 Jun 2008 20:30:49 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6C95C688-CA6C-4DBE-92BA-F5B8B9260EF0/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> 8. Children can’t have serious mental disorders.<br/><br/>9. Doctor/patient confidentiality is absolute and always protected.<br/><br/>10. Mental illness is no longer stigmatized in society. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness/" title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV align="center"> <H1 id="post-2170"><A title="Permanent Link: Top 10 Myths of Mental Illness" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness/">Top 10 Myths of Mental Illness</A></H1> <SPAN class="author"> by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. <BR /> June 13, 2008</SPAN> </DIV></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness/" title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3>1. Mental illness is just like a medical disease.</H3></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Many mental health experts believe in the “bio-psycho-social” model of mental disorders. That is, there are multiple, connected components of most people’s mental illness that include three distinct, yet connected, spheres: (1) the biological and our genetics; (2) the psychological and our personalities; and (3) the social and our environment. All three seem to play an important role in most people’s development of a mental disorder.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3>2. Medications are the only treatment you need to treat a mental illness.</H3></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3>3. If a medication or psychotherapy doesn’t work, that means your situation is hopeless.</H3></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3>4. Therapists don’t care about you – they only pretend to care because you pay them.</H3></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3>5. If it isn’t serious, it can’t hurt you.</H3></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness?pp=2" title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness?pp=2">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3>6. Psychology and psychiatry aren’t “real sciences.” They’re supported only by fuzzy research and contradictory findings.</H3></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">7. Mental illness is a myth,</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/13/10-myths-of-mental-illness/Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:26:24 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C4D70180-B0C5-4657-B439-D6283D9AE065/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> My dissertation research uncovered dozens of stories of abusive and incompetent psychiatric emergency rooms. I hope at least these woman's death will draw attention to an invisible and longstanding American problem. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/01/kings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die/" title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/01/kings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-2207"><A title="Permanent Link: Kings County Hospital Lets Woman with Mental Illness Die" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/01/kings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die/">Kings County Hospital Lets Woman with Mental Illness Die</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/01/kings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die/" title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/01/kings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The below hospital surveillance video shows a dying woman while people around her, including a hospital security guard, did nothing to help. Apparently hospitals aren’t good places for people with mental illness to be (<A href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/01/kings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die/">click here to read the full entry and view the video</A>):</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>After <STRONG>a full hour, another patient</STRONG> alerted hospital staff of the woman dead on the floor. But it gets better:</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Why their psych ward is even allowed to remain open is beyond me. And while 6 staffers have been fired, including 2 security guards who saw the woman and did nothing, it still leaves a bitter taste in anyone’s mouth who watches this tape. The loss of a job just doesn’t seem sufficient punishment for the death of a person with mental illness — in a hospital.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Read the full story: <A href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2008/06/30/2008-06-30_hospital_video_shows_no_one_helped_dying.html">Hospital video shows no one helped dying woman</A></P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/01/kings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die/Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:54:17 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/02ECC3DA-262D-460B-8C2B-38D52010D887/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Sigh, don't I know it. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/16/overtime-work-linked-to-anxiety-and-depression/2467.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/16/overtime-work-linked-to-anxiety-and-depression/2467.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-2467"><A title="Permanent Link: Overtime Work Linked to Anxiety and Depression" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/16/overtime-work-linked-to-anxiety-and-depression/2467.html">Overtime Work Linked to Anxiety and Depression</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/16/overtime-work-linked-to-anxiety-and-depression/2467.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/16/overtime-work-linked-to-anxiety-and-depression/2467.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Working overtime was associated with higher anxiety and depression scores among both men and women. The rate of questionnaire scores indicating “possible” depression increased from about nine percent for men with normal work hours to 12.5 percent for those who worked overtime. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>For women, the rate of possible depression increased from seven to eleven percent. In both sexes, rates of possible anxiety and depression were higher among workers with lower incomes and for less-skilled workers. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The new results support this directive by showing increased rates of anxiety and depression among overtime workers. Men working more than 48 hours per week are at highest risk, although the authors note that working even moderate overtime hours seems to increase the risk of “mental distress.” </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/overworked/" rel="tag">overworked</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/depression/" rel="tag">depression</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/anxiety/" rel="tag">anxiety</a></div>http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/16/overtime-work-linked-to-anxiety-and-depression/2467.htmlWed, 18 Jun 2008 16:44:43 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/094F536D-3ADD-41F8-B394-7CCD7B977DA7/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/state-ranking" title="http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/state-ranking">www.mentalhealthamerica.net</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/532CF29C-98AA-43DE-A615-95B68FF6EBE8.gif" alt="Ranking the States Header" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Lost productive time among U.S. workers due to depression is estimated to be in excess of $31 billion per year.  Depression frequently co-occurs with a variety of medical illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and chronic pain and is associated with poorer health status and prognosis.  It is also the principal cause of the 30,000 suicides in the U.S. each year.  In 2004, suicide was the 11<SUP>th</SUP> leading cause of death in the United States, third among individuals 15-24.  </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI><A target="_blank" href="http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/files/Ranking_Americas_Mental_Health.pdf">Download the full report</A> (PDF)</LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The four measures were:  (1) the percentage of the adult population experiencing at least one major depressive episode in the past year, (2) the percentage of the adolescent population (ages 12 to 17) experiencing at least one major depressive episode in the past year, (3) the percentage of the adult population experiencing serious psychological distress, and (4) the average number of days in the past 30 days in which the population reported that their mental health was not good.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/AA462176-AB97-43E7-8C6A-622C5D88DABE.gif" alt="State Ranking on Depression Status" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/454ED164-C7D1-4A35-9554-43495D8FF525.gif" alt="State Ranking on Suicide Rates" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/935FECF8-036C-47A7-BB98-7F9339E3E0C8.gif" alt="Factors That Influence State Mental Health Status and Suicide Rates" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/CF8A06A4-EBA7-41BA-97E7-5BB55AABB1A2.gif" alt="Age-Adjusted Suicide Rate in Each State per 100,000, 2004" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/suicide/" rel="tag">suicide</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mental+illness/" rel="tag">mental illness</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/depression/" rel="tag">depression</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/states/" rel="tag">states</a></div>http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/state-rankingWed, 02 Jul 2008 18:08:23 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/AD4FB173-6B6B-4AB4-901C-538B0166DBC9/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/26/unhealthy-meal-may-trigger-memory-decline/2506.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/26/unhealthy-meal-may-trigger-memory-decline/2506.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-2506"><A title="Permanent Link: Unhealthy Meal May Trigger Memory Decline" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/26/unhealthy-meal-may-trigger-memory-decline/2506.html">Unhealthy Meal May Trigger Memory Decline</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/26/unhealthy-meal-may-trigger-memory-decline/2506.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/26/unhealthy-meal-may-trigger-memory-decline/2506.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/8EB8B267-A137-427E-BEA1-764C1B3C6AF9.jpg" alt="scone" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">An intriguing new area of research links adults with type 2 diabetes, unhealthy high-fat meals and memory decline.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>According to background information in the new study, there is growing evidence linking diabetes to cognitive complications in humans. Adults with type 2 diabetes are especially vulnerable to acute meal-induced memory deficits after eating unhealthy foods. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Type 2 diabetes is associated with chronic oxidative stress, a major contributor to cognitive decline and Alzheimer disease.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Participants who ate the high fat meal without vitamin supplements showed significantly more forgetfulness of words and paragraph information in immediate and time delay recall tests, relative to those who had the water meal or the meal with antioxidant vitamins.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Researchers found that vitamin supplementation consistently improved recall scores relative to the meal alone.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/memory/" rel="tag">memory</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/nutrition/" rel="tag">nutrition</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/diabetes/" rel="tag">diabetes</a></div>http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/26/unhealthy-meal-may-trigger-memory-decline/2506.htmlWed, 02 Jul 2008 19:07:45 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/0358D5A6-6C7B-4148-97ED-97101E5C9E7B/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Our family has admired Ben Carson for years. He didn't escape poverty and turn around to blame other poor people for not being able to do the same. Instead, he works to build the scaffolding necessary to lift others to where he is. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.carson20jun20,0,3617208.story" title="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.carson20jun20,0,3617208.story">www.baltimoresun.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>From poverty to top U.S. honors</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/E0728227-90F5-4625-98A2-B74D3C2DC197.jpg" alt="Benjamin Carson" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV> "I was just very grateful that people are starting to recognize some of the work I am trying to do," Carson, 56, said in an interview after the ceremony, referring to his promotion of reading programs and college education for at-risk high school students. He called high school dropout rates an "epidemic" and said, "Sometimes I feel people aren't paying attention."</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Born in Detroit to a barely literate mother who married at age 13 and soon left her husband to raise two sons alone, Carson overcame what he has described as a temper problem as a teen and went on to attend <A id="OREDU0000166" class="taxInlineTagLink" title="Yale University" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/yale-university-OREDU0000166.topic">Yale University</A> and the <A id="OREDU000044" class="taxInlineTagLink" title="University of Michigan" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-michigan-OREDU000044.topic">University of Michigan</A> medical school. He gained fame as a pediatric neurosurgeon for, among other things, leading the separations of five sets of twins conjoined at the head between 1987 and 2004. He is also skilled in hemispherectomies, a procedure to remove half the brain to prevent seizures.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">poverty</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/upward+mobility/" rel="tag">upward mobility</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/achievement/" rel="tag">achievement</a></div>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.carson20jun20,0,3617208.storyWed, 02 Jul 2008 23:42:58 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/2FC20384-F1EB-455A-9115-3E858D3F7FF1/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> I almost never hear "pro-life" people balk at the horrific lives lived by the mentally ill in our country. If only we could put them back in the womb. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/30/creative-funding-solutions-for-mental-health-care/" title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/30/creative-funding-solutions-for-mental-health-care/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-2202"><A title="Permanent Link: Creative Funding Solutions for Mental Health Care" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/30/creative-funding-solutions-for-mental-health-care/">Creative Funding Solutions for Mental Health Care</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/30/creative-funding-solutions-for-mental-health-care/" title="http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/30/creative-funding-solutions-for-mental-health-care/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Historically, mental-health funding has been a low political priority. In Wyatt v. Stickney, the country’s first major civil-rights battle about mental illness, attorneys sued Alabama and introduced horrific evidence that showed how patients in state asylums in the 1970s were being abused, neglected, and, in some cases, tortured. Yet, when a disgusted Alabama judge ordered the state legislature to overhaul its shameful system by pumping in millions of new tax dollars for improvements, legislators balked. They cried poor. There was no money, they insisted, until an enterprising attorney released state financial records that revealed Alabama was spending more each year to host the Alabama Junior Miss Pageant and swine shows at county fairs than it spent caring for people with mental illnesses.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Read the full article: <A href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=finding_funding">Finding Funding</A></P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mentally+ill/" rel="tag">mentally ill</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/neglect/" rel="tag">neglect</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">abuse</a></div>http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/06/30/creative-funding-solutions-for-mental-health-care/Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:05:10 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/23E6AC22-C3CC-4338-9919-310B548B0E05/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> He is working to see that all uninsured Americans get coverage before he will accept it. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=an-uninsured-doctor-in-the-house" title="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=an-uninsured-doctor-in-the-house">www.sciam.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>An Uninsured Doctor in the House</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2>When Steve Kagen became a member of Congress, he declined health insurance coverage. Now he has a plan to provide it for everyone</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dmegivern/512/E23B4FF8-1475-48D4-91C9-3E34247E3200.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>One of the first things U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen (D–Wisc.) did when he took office last year was to <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-steve-kagen/why-i-declined-my-congres_b_54338.html">nix his congressional health care coverage</A>. The move stunned a human resources staffer, who, the lawmaker says, looked at him as though he were insane.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Kagen, 58, is now one of millions of Americans, including at least nine million children, without health insurance. "I have absolutely no health coverage at all," he told <EM>ScientificAmerican.com</EM> during a recent interview. "I have no health conditions and am pretty darn healthy." And if he gets sick? "I'd be just like the 47 [million] to 50 million American citizens who don't have coverage," he says, "and I'd have to negotiate with hospitals and doctors for the best-priced coverage."</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">healthcare</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/insurance/" rel="tag">insurance</a></div>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=an-uninsured-doctor-in-the-houseMon, 12 May 2008 23:58:15 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/000CE89B-D6A6-421A-A142-7E90BAECD58B/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-06-25-bootcamp_N.htm" title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-06-25-bootcamp_N.htm">www.usatoday.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><SPAN class="inside-head">House sets standards for juvenile boot camps</SPAN></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="inside-copy">WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved national standards on juvenile boot camps and other public and private programs intended to help troubled youth. Lawmakers acted Wednesday following reports of abuse and deaths involving young people with behavioral, emotional or mental problems.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="inside-copy">The legislation, which passed 318-103, would bar excessive "tough love" practices such as denying essential water, food, clothing, shelter or medical care. Physical restraint would be allowed only when the safety of the child or others is at issue. Also, children would have to have reasonable access to a telephone.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="inside-copy">The White House expressed opposition and the Senate has yet to consider the measure.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="inside-copy">The bill is a result of widespread accounts of youngsters suffering harmed or neglected at therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps and boot camps. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 teenagers attend such camps.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/youth/" rel="tag">youth</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/justice/" rel="tag">justice</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/juvenile/" rel="tag">juvenile</a></div>http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-06-25-bootcamp_N.htmWed, 02 Jul 2008 15:40:19 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4A3D453B-2E6F-48A7-914A-64C92BC38395/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1817329,00.html" title="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1817329,00.html">www.time.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>Why Do We Remember Bad Things?</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">TIME asked <B>Matt Wilson,</B> a professor of neurobiology at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Q:</B> Why do we remember unpleasant events better than ordinary ones?</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>A:</B> We think of memory as a record of our experience. But the idea is not just to store information; it's to store <I>relevant</I> information. [The idea is] to use our experience to guide future behavior.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The speculation is that we process memory in order to solve problems. And things we should learn from, things that are particularly important or that have strong emotions tied to them, may be things that are going to be important in the future. If you present stimuli with a strong negative emotional component, the memories do seem to be more easily retrieved than neutral stimuli or even those that are somewhat positive, for example happy faces versus angry faces.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">[Emotional content] does not necessarily mean that events are remembered more accurately, and that's an important distinction.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/memory/" rel="tag">memory</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/trauma/" rel="tag">trauma</a></div>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1817329,00.htmlWed, 02 Jul 2008 19:01:07 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/054A09B6-C332-4201-81E5-A84CCFC0B503/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/07/2008070201c.htm" title="http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/07/2008070201c.htm">chronicle.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>Pothead Ph.D.</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>I never would have made it this far in graduate school without the aid of marijuana.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">I think my pot smoking has helped smooth out the roughness of a Ph.D. program. And frankly, I think the disturbing issue with a younger generation of graduate students is that they don't toke up enough. Instead many indulge in things far worse, both for them physically and for the humanities.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>I'm an insomniac who averages four to five hours of sleep a night. The best way to deal with a sleeping problem is with regular exercise. But it's nice to have a secret weapon to knock me out on days when I can't make it to the gym. I'm certainly better off than peers who have flirted with Xanax addictions, or who waste their stipends on genuinely worthless stuff like Ambien or Lunesta.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Of course I've often felt troubled, politically, by my marijuana use: Here I am in the comfort of my apartment while unfortunate people are incarcerated for selling it to me.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/academia/" rel="tag">academia</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/marijuana/" rel="tag">marijuana</a></div>http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/07/2008070201c.htmWed, 02 Jul 2008 16:49:53 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C0476EE1-662C-4E10-B053-90BC4AB51614/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/18/increased-risk-of-depression-for-diabetics/2475.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/18/increased-risk-of-depression-for-diabetics/2475.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-2475"><A title="Permanent Link: Increased Risk of Depression for Diabetics" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/18/increased-risk-of-depression-for-diabetics/2475.html">Increased Risk of Depression for Diabetics</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/18/increased-risk-of-depression-for-diabetics/2475.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/18/increased-risk-of-depression-for-diabetics/2475.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>New research discovers individuals with treated type 2 diabetes are at increased risk for developing depression, while a more modest association was found between persons with depression and the risk of diabetes.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>These associations may be related to increased risk of depressive symptoms in individuals with diabetes, increased risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals with depressive symptoms, or both. It is unclear whether type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for increased symptoms of depression. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“Our findings of an association in participants with treated but not untreated type 2 diabetes suggests that the psychological stress associated with diabetes management may lead to elevated depressive symptoms,” the authors write. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">“… the present study contributes to a growing body of literature indicating a bidirectional association between these 2 serious long-term diseases.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/health/" rel="tag">health</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/diabetes/" rel="tag">diabetes</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/depression/" rel="tag">depression</a></div>http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/18/increased-risk-of-depression-for-diabetics/2475.htmlWed, 18 Jun 2008 16:34:11 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E8743E1B-2379-40F4-B026-88FE1C4F75F1/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/17/trust-leads-to-better-health/2470.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/17/trust-leads-to-better-health/2470.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-2470"><A title="Permanent Link: Trust Leads to Better Health" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/17/trust-leads-to-better-health/2470.html">Trust Leads to Better Health</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/17/trust-leads-to-better-health/2470.html" title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/17/trust-leads-to-better-health/2470.html">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“Social trust, sense of belonging and community participation were each significantly associated with health outcomes,” the researchers found. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Physical health — as reported by the study participants —“remained significantly associated with social trust” even among twins.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“The relationship between social capital and health is complex,” said Mark LaGory, chairman of the sociology department at University of Alabama at Birmingham. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“There are a lot of intervening variables.” In lower-income neighborhoods, he said, “social capital, instead of indicating a body of resources people can draw on, represents a body of obligations that others can draw from.”</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>One way of thinking about it: “People that are deeply connected with the local neighborhood are bearing not only their own poverty, but everyone else’s [poverty],” LaGory said.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/trust/" rel="tag">trust</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/health/" rel="tag">health</a></div>http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/17/trust-leads-to-better-health/2470.htmlWed, 18 Jun 2008 16:40:49 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DA3BFD7B-873D-4742-9ED3-B15D8BCE0C95/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dmegivern/">dmegivern</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/intelligence-quotient-rising-worldwide/" title="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/intelligence-quotient-rising-worldwide/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 id="post-1387"><A title="Permanent Link: Intelligence Quotient Rising Worldwide" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/intelligence-quotient-rising-worldwide/">Intelligence Quotient Rising Worldwide</A></H1></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/intelligence-quotient-rising-worldwide/" title="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/intelligence-quotient-rising-worldwide/">psychcentral.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Genetics, social conditions and culture all may play a part in the rise of human intelligence levels around the world. But the best method of determining why some people are smarter than others is still being debated.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>For most of the last century it was widely thought that intelligence was in decline. The idea was that those at the lower end of the intelligence spectrum were having more children, thereby reducing the general intelligence level. Then one day in 1984, James Flynn, a New Zealand-based moral philosopher, had a Eureka moment that turned cognitive science upside down. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Flynn found that in both the developed and developing worlds, IQ had improved in the 20th century at the remarkable rate of three points per decade. This development has since become known as the ‘Flynn effect.’ </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">One of the key environmental factors, Flynn says, is the adult-infant ratio: The more adults there are to children, the richer the cognitive environment.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/intelligence-quotient-rising-worldwide/Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:29:09 GMT