Month: April 2015

Understanding and Treating Mental Illness in Long-Term Care …

Jeanna Conder, OTR/L, MBA, Senior Director of Clinical Operations for RehabCare offered real-life solutions for treating patients with mental health conditions at this year's AOTA Annual Conference & Expo in Nashville.

Clinical characteristics of bipolar disorder: a comparative study …

Bipolar disorder presents with diverse clinical manifestations. … Age at onset of bipolar disorder has been demonstrated as a valid defining characteristic of phenotypically similar subgroups (Strober 1992; Vázquez et al.

Disability rights advocates sound alarm about Iowa Medicaid …

Iowans who advocate for people with disabilities have deep concerns about Governor Terry Branstad's plan to privatize Medicaid, shifting most recipients into managed care. Iowa Senate President Pam Jochum, who has …

Old Before Their Time: The Effect of PTSD on Children's Telomeres

Aoife O'Donovan, PhD and her colleagues from the San Francisco VA Medical Center published a study in Biological Psychiatry, showing that adults with PTSD had significantly shorter telomeres than those without a history …

Pt 2. Bipolar Disorder and ADD Focus Problems: Three Unexpected …

A note from Julie: Part one of this blog post told the story of one day in my life during a bipolar disorder attention and focus crisis. It took me over three hours to get part one of this blog written and online. I then had trouble …