LinkBlog
Crying Shame - a Priory Group survey about stigma and mental illness in Britain (pdf)
6 Golden Rules for Conquering Performance Anxiety by David Leisner
Freedom from Fear's On Target Summer/Fall 2007 newsletter - an anxiety & depression resource (PDF)
Switching between monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and SSRI or tricyclic antidepressants (.doc format)
blog roll
- Agoraphobia
- Anxiety 2 Calm
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Anxious Living : An Exploration
into Social Anxiety - Dare to Dream
- Dear Tobacco
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Dr. Deborah Serani's:
Psychological Perspectives - Fast Weight Loss?
- Finding the Confidence
- GNIF Brain Blogger
- Legacy of War
- Mental Health Minutes
- My Brain: My Friend, My Enemy
- My Wife Has Agoraphobia!
- Neurophilosophy
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- PTSD Combat
- The Happiness Guy
- The Last Psychiatrist
- The Trouble With Spikol
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WebMD: Anxiety and
Stress Management - We Worry: A Blog for the Anxious
recommended links
Depression Is Real Coalition
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ABIL: Agoraphobics Building
Independant Lives -
Agoraphobia and Panic
Disorder Foundation -
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America - Anxiety Network Australia
- Anxiety-Panic.Com
- AnxietyZone
- Army Behavioral Health
- BrainPhysics - OCD
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Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments - Children of Hoarders
- Choices in Mental Health (UK)
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Dart Foundation: Gateway to PTSD
information -
David Baldwin's
Trauma Information Pages - EMDR Institute, Inc.
- EMDR Network Japan
- Fear of Flying course (free)
- Healthy Minds
- Information for People with Anxiety Disorders
- Internet Guide to REBT, CBT
- Living with a Brain Disorder
- Morita Therapy
- Mayo Clinic : Depression
- Mayo Clinic : GAD
- Mayo Clinic : OCD
- Mayo Clinic : Panic Attacks
- Mayo Clinic : PTSD
- Mayo Clinic : Social Anxiety
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Medicines.org.uk - Anxiety &
Depression guides - Mind-Your-Mind Canada
- National Center for PTSD
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National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) - No Such Thing As Crazy
- OCD Action, UK
- OCD Ireland
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Open Minds, Open Doors
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- Paniccure.com
- Partners With PTSD
- Prescription Drug Information
- Psychiatric Service Dog Society
- PsychNews
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Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy (REBT) - Sane Australia
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Shyness & Social Anxiety
Service of Australia -
Social Phobia/Social Anxiety
Association - Social Anxiety Support board
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South African Depression &
Anxiety Group - Suicide Prevention Help
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tAPir - the Anxiety Panic
internet resource -
The Panic Center (Free
CBT based programs) - The School of OCD
- UN-WHO Drug Trials Database
- U.S. Army Behavioral Health - PTSD
"just don't smoke"
Yul Brynner
- Menthol cigarettes harder to quit
- Secondhand smoke in cars serious threat to kid's health
- Starting smoking young increases addiction risk
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Smoking doesn't slim girls;
stunts boys' growth - 40 reasons why you should quit smoking
- Pregnant smokers 'prime' their kids to smoke
- Smoking related coronary artery disease quickly reversed if young smokers quit
- Not ready to quit? Try cutting back
- Half smoking again within year of lung cancer surgery
- Cutting back 'compensation' increases toxin load per cigarette
- Tobacco companies upped nicotine level 11% since 1998
- Workplace passive smoke increases lung cancer risk
- Hooked by genes: The DNA sequences cigarette companies love
- Smoking causes long lasting changes to brain's bio chemistry
- Nicotine receptor stimulant trebles the odds of stopping smoking
- Bupropion, nortriptyline double chances of quitting
- Nicotine's powerful role in reinforcing smoking
- Pregnant smokers raise child's risk of stroke, heart attack
- Smoking linked to pancreatic cancer
- Neurobiology of Smokers' Cravings
- 'Low cancer risk' cigarettes as deadly as regular kind
- Quitting reduces lung cancer death risk by 70%
- Fetal nicotine exposure linked to teen attention problems
- Outdoor second-hand smoke exposure can harm
- Response to day's first cigarette predicts ease of quitting
- 'Healthy' children of smoking parents aren't really so healthy
- Children of smokers have up to five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
- Smoking increases risk of dementia
- Smoking kills even after quitting
- Antenatal second hand smoke exposure increases child's psychological problems
- Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
- Just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
- Smokers less likely to survive early stage lung cancer
- Smokeless tobacco delivers carcinogens more efficiently than cigarettes!
- Smoking permanently turns on genes that increase lung cancer susceptibility
- Secondhand smoke a health hazard for pets too
anti torture campaign
- Torture experts write APA policy
- [APA] still rocked by torture debate
- Petition for psychologists
- AMA president says APA "did not accurately represent our ethical guidelines"
- Psychologists Aiding Torturers
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Annual conference endorses
APA's torture policy :( - Physicians for Human Rights call on Congress to vote No on Military Commissions Bill
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Torture is a Form of Trauma;
Trauma Causes PTSD - Psychoanalysts' association condemns torture use
- Humiliating, inhumane or degrading treatment IS torture
- Two American psychologists accused of war crimes. U.S. DoD investigating.
- DoD report proves psychologists central to POW/detainee abuse (pdf)
- 40 psychologists demand APA change policy on torture (pdf)
- Did the American Psychological Association turn a blind eye to torture for medicine precribing rights?
- Will psychologists still abet torture?
Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. General John (Jeff) Kimmons, has stated that no actionable intelligence had been obtained through abusive interrogation methods in the last 5 years.
monument, Monmouth County
New Jersey.
Parkinson's related depression often unresponsive to antidepressants
Preliminary results of the pan-European PRODEST (Profile of Depression Symptoms in PD patients) study in 1,016 patients with Parkinson`s disease (PD) were presented at the 11th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) in Brussels this week, revealing unique features of PD-related depression and its treatment.
The study confirmed that depressive symptoms associated with PD are not only highly prevalent, but nearly half (44.1%) of patients receiving antidepressant treatment (n=211) continued to experience depressive symptoms.
"These symptoms have a significant impact on PD patients' quality of life, often equal in impact to that of the traditionally better known motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The results suggest that many depressive symptoms are expression of Parkinson`s disease, rather than of a depressive syndrome. This consideration, if supported by further analysis of the PRODEST study results, might suggest different treatment approaches of depression in PD," said Professor Paolo Barone, Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Napoli-Federico II, Naples, Italy, and lead investigator of PRODEST.
In those 282 patients with a reported medical history of depression, the study results also showed that over half (54.3 percent) of these patients had a marked score in DSM IV item 1 or 2), with 66 percent (n=186) receiving anti-depressant treatment, confirming a persistence of depressive symptoms despite treatment.
Data from recent studies with pramipexole, a non-ergot dopamine agonist, have shown a beneficial effect on the depressive and motivational symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Ongoing trials are aimed to confirm these previous findings and continue to investigate this aspect of pramipexole's clinical profile in more detail.
Commenting on the role of pramipexole, Professor Matthias Lemke, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director at the Rheinische Kliniken, Bonn, Germany, said: "PD-related depressive symptoms can overlap or even be mistaken for motor symptoms. It is therefore important that physicians learn to differentiate these in order to find the optimal treatment for their PD patients. While pramipexole has proven an effective treatment for the motor symptoms of PD, there is now evidence that pramipexole may also improve PD-related depressive symptoms."
PD-related depressive symptoms have also been studied in an ongoing two year Italian study, known as PRIAMO. Initial findings of the 55 center study support the evidence that non-motor symptoms (NMS) are highly prevalent with the majority of patients experiencing one or more non-motor symptoms. Psychiatric symptoms (anxiety and depression) were rated most frequently and with a high impact on patients' quality of life.
"The conclusions from PRIAMO further support the PRODEST study in highlighting the need to address the often undiagnosed and under-treated aspects of Parkinson's disease which impart a significant burden on PD patients, relative to their disease severity," said Professor Barone, member of the Steering Committee of the PRIAMO Study Group.
PRODEST is a multi-national, multicentre, prospective observational study in which 24 centers in eight European countries participated with 1016 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's Disease and a score on the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) of > 24. The study population was evenly divided (51.7%:48.3%) early vs. advanced PD.
Barone P, Goetz CG, Houben JJ, et al. PRODEST - Depressive Symptoms In Parkinson's Disease: Demographic Data Presentation P1122, 11th Congress of the Federation of Neurological Societies 2007 Aug 26.