The latest in Mental Health

Psychiatric Solutions shares rise on buyout report

2010-03-10T13:45:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Psychiatric Solutions shares rise on media report of potential buyout by Bain Capital</div><div><p>Shares of Psychiatric Solutions Inc. surged Wednesday after media reports said the mental health hospital operator may be bought out by private-equity firm Bain Capital.</p><p>The company confirmed ...

Tinnitus and Stress

2010-03-10T11:27:59Z

Does stress increase and accelerate the intensity (and volume) of tinnitus or does tinnitus accelerate and intensify stress? Both are correct; tinnitus and stress are very much intertwined. Tinnitus stress can be stress caused by tinnitus or tinnitus caused by stress. Stress tinnitus actually means the same thing as tinnitus stress.<br><br>If you suffer from tinnitus stress, you probably have noticed that the buzzing, ringing, swooshing or whatever noise is yours, increases when y...

Pentagon shooter little known by neighbors

2010-03-06T03:30:27Z

<div id="subtitle">Many tried to help computer whiz who plunged into mental illness and became Pentagon shooter</div><div><p>John Patrick Bedell was a brilliant and seemingly gentle computer whiz, yet so withdrawn that people in this rural community where his parents and grandparents are civic leaders knew little about him — until he opened fire at the Pentagon ...

Obesity and depression are a two-way street

2010-03-05T11:15:19Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are obese are at increased risk of becoming depressed, and people who are depressed are at increased risk of becoming obese, Dutch researchers have found.</p><p>"There is a reciprocal association over time between depression and obesity," Dr. Floriana S. Luppino, of Jazz Pharmaceuticals reports 4th-quarter profit on lower costs, boost in sales of Xyrem</div><div><p>Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. reported a fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday on lower costs and a boost in sales from the sleep disorder treatment Xyrem.</p><p>The company earned $5.7 million, or 17 cents per share, compared with a loss of $56.9 million, or $2.04 per...

Iowa jury convicts man in football coach killing

2010-03-03T04:30:54Z

<div id="subtitle">Iowa jury convicts man in killing of football coach known for winning teams, leading town</div><div><p>Mark Becker stood passively Tuesday as a jury found him guilty of murder in the shooting of a nationally known Iowa high school football coach.</p><p>He seemed far removed from the man whose mind was filled with images of angels and horned demons w...

Bollywood actresses drive Indian slimming fashion

2010-03-02T23:16:03Z

<div><p>Bollywood actresses are slimming down, as an increasing vogue for showing bare flesh on screen and Western ideas about body size and beauty take hold in India's big cities.</p><p>Whereas former leading ladies like Mumtaz and Zeenat Aman once found their curvaceous figures no barrier to success, their modern-day counterpa...

Rise in self-diagnosis of bipolar disorder: research

2010-03-02T11:00:36Z

<div><p>Psychiatrists in Britain claim to have discovered a new phenomenon -- people diagnosing themselves with bipolar disorder, according to research published on Monday.</p><p>Celebrities talking publicly about suffering from the illness are linked to the rise in self-diagnosis, London-based psychiatrists Chicago nursing home that lost federal funding, may lose license wants nonprofit to take over</div><div><p>The owners of a troubled Chicago nursing home say they want to sell or lease the building to a nonprofit that could run it as a mental illness treatment center — a move quickly criticized by advocates of supportive housing.</p><p>A nonprofit organization could develop a "state-of-the-art" fa...

Long-time cannabis use linked to psychosis: study

2010-03-01T12:34:11Z

<div><p>The longer people use cannabis or marijuana, the more likely they are to experience hallucinations or delusions or to suffer psychosis, according to a study released Saturday.</p><p>The study found that people who first used cannabis when they were aged 15 or younger were twice as likely to develop a "non-affective psychosis" -- which can include schizophrenia -- than those who had never used the drug.</p><p>The research led by

Teen pot smokers at high risk of mental illness

2010-03-01T09:45:32Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young people who use marijuana (cannabis) are at increased risk of suffering hallucinations, delusions or other reality-distorting "psychoses." And the more time that's passed since first use, the higher the risk.</p><p>The findings from a study by Dr. John McGrath, of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Quee...

Long-term cannabis use can double risk of psychosis

2010-03-01T02:45:15Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Young people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug, scientists said on Monday.</p><p>The findings adds weight to previous research which linked psychosis with the drug -- particularly in its most potent form as "skunk" -- and will feed the debate abo...

Talk therapy reduces back pain

2010-02-26T11:45:51Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with chronic low-back pain can benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy, a new British report shows.</p><p>Low-back pain is one of the most costly and disabling health problems in developed countries, the researchers write in The Lancet, but so far effective treatment has been lacking.</p><p>When they...

Children over-exposed to sexual imagery: UK report

2010-02-26T03:15:35Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - "Lads' mags" should carry an age warning and music videos with sexual posing should not be shown until late in the evening to help combat the equalization of children, a report commissioned by the British government said on Friday.</p><p>The report also said video games consoles and mobile phones should be sold with parental controls already switched on, and that an online "...

Antidepressant shows benefits for low sex drive

2010-02-25T10:00:15Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The antidepressant bupropion may hold promise for improving symptoms in younger women diagnosed with so-called hypoactive sexual desire disorder, a small study suggests.</p><p>The disorder, called HSDD for short, is diagnosed when a person has a persistently low interest in sex, and that disinterest is causing personal distress or relationship problems.</p><p>...

Mother cleared of murder in starvation case

2010-02-25T09:16:21Z

<div><p>A mother who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death was convicted of manslaughter on Thursday but cleared of murder after psychiatrists agreed she suffered from severe depression at the time of the girl's death.</p><p>Angela Gordon, 33, was cleared of murder at Birmingham Crown Court after prosecutors accepted her defence of ...

A bottle of pills to kick the bottle

2010-02-24T22:16:54Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Does this sound like anyone you know? Darryl is 35, has a steady job, a stable home and good marriage, enjoys a few beers in front of the TV most nights -- doesn't have what most people would call a drink problem.</p><p>In the United States alone there are probably around 36 million Darryls, according to the Two and a Half Men' temporarily halted as Charlie Sheen enters rehab</div><div><p>CBS is temporarily halting production of television's top-rated comedy, "Two and a Half Men," following news from Charlie Sheen's publicist that the actor is in rehab and i...

U.N. narcotics board warns of prescription drug abuse

2010-02-24T02:15:24Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Abuse of prescription drugs is growing rapidly around the world, with more people abusing legal narcotics than heroin, cocaine and ecstasy combined, the United Nations global drugs watchdog said on Wednesday.</p><p>The In...