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US Children Are Exposed to More Violence and Abuse Than Previously Recognized

October 9, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

A new study has found that U.S. children are routinely exposed to even more violence and abuse than has been previously recognized. The study conducted by the University of New Hampshire also revealed that nearly half of the children experienced a physical assault in the study year. “Children experience far more violence, abuse, and crime than […]

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Social Groups Play an Important Role in Overall Health and Well-Being

October 8, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

Social groups may be good for your health, according to new research by the Universities of Exeter and Queensland, Australia. Study results suggest that the quality of a person’s social life could have a greater impact on health and well-being than diet and exercise. Science Daily recently posted a release on this study, which suggested

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Study Examines Link between Sanity and Creativity

October 7, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

For years there has been an assumption that the overly creative may also be overtly insane – for lack of a better term. If you refer to such examples of Vincent van Gogh and his ill-fated ear or Sylvia Plath and her suicide by oven, it makes little sense to the sane why such actions

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Children Who Eat Sweets Daily Are More Likely to Be Violent Adults

October 2, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research. A study of almost 17,500 participants in the 1970 British Cohort Study found that 10-year-olds who ate sweets daily were significantly more likely to have been convicted for violence at age 34.

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Smoking During Pregnancy Puts Children at Risk of Psychotic Symptoms

October 1, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

Mothers who smoke during pregnancy put their children at greater risk of developing psychotic symptoms in their teenage years. Science Daily reports that researchers from Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham, and Warwick Universities studied 6,356 12-year-olds from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. All the children completed an interview for psychotic-like symptoms, such as hallucinations

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Researchers Develop Integrated Treatment for Soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Chronic Pain

September 30, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in a growing number of soldiers being sent home to the United States to be treated for physical and psychological trauma. Chronic pain is a frequent problem among soldiers returning from the Middle East. Common sources of pain are in the head (traumatic-brain injury or post-concussion syndrome),

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Research Finds Better Ways to Predict Violent Behaviors

September 26, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

New research shows that diagnosing severe personality disorders, evaluating the childhood environment, assessing alcohol consumption, and analyzing the MAOA genotype may provide more accurate means for assessing risk among violent offenders, according to the Finnish research carried out jointly at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Central Hospital Psychiatry Centre.

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Functional MRI Predicts Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Soldiers

September 17, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

About 20% of US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are psychologically damaged, according to a Washington Post study. A substantial number of them suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which carries with it a high rate of suicide. But doctors will now be able to forecast a soldier’s risk of developing PTSD, with the

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Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Abuse May Be More Common Than We Think

September 15, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

A new study finds that anxiety, depression, and substance abuse may be twice as high in as the mental health community has been led to believe, due to the vast amount of people who don’t report or aren’t asked about their problems.

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Brain Defect Could Predict Onset of Schizophrenia

September 15, 2009 / By Promises Behavioral Health Editorial Team / News and Research

In the first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of its kind, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest stages of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. Activity in this specific region of the hippocampus may help predict the onset of the disease, offering opportunities for

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