Category Archives: Depression

Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America

A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …

Lower availability of omega-3 fatty acids associated with bipolar …

People with bipolar disorder have lower levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids that cross the blood-brain barrier than people who do not, according to researchers from Penn State College of Medicine and the National Institutes …

Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy | Internet versus face …

Abstract: Background:The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of Internet-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy (iCBT) in treating fibromyalgia (FM) compared with an identical protocol using conventional group …

California Case Shows How Mental Health Cuts Overload ERs …

States cut five billion dollars in mental health services from 2009 to 2012, according to USA Today. A new article online in Annals of Emergency.

Validation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and GAD …

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) was developed in the USA as a valuable screening tool for detecting GAD in primary care patients [15]. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 (GAD-2) is a short version of the tool …