ADAA: Anxiety and Depression Association of America
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Little treatments show big promise for youth psychiatric problems
Single-session therapeutic interventions aim to increase adolescents’ access to mental health treatment.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation shows promise in autism spectrum disorder
White paper calls TMS “possibly transformative,” but data are still preliminary.
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Tweaking CBT to boost outcomes in GAD
SAN FRANCISCO – Various forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy can help patients, but only half of patients improve.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation shows more promise in refractory OCD
SAN FRANSISCO – Short-course TMS therapy can bring remission 12 months after the initial treatment.
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Who’s best suited for Internet-based CBT?
Findings could be interpreted “as an indicator for matching the right type of treatment to the right patient.”
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Almost one-third of Syrian refugees in U.S. met PTSD criteria
SAN FRANSISCO – Mental health care for Syrian war refugees is highly needed.
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Anhedonia emerges as a major transdiagnostic treatment target
SAN FRANCISCO – Anhedonia is the symptom dimension that cuts most strongly across the diagnostic boundaries of anxiety and depression and...
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ADHD – not OCD – called the key comorbidity in pediatric hoarding
SAN FRANCISCO – To what extent is childhood hoarding developmentally appropriate?
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Female predisposition to anxiety disorders may have prenatal origin
SAN FRANSISCO – Why are anxiety disorders twice as prevalent in women as in men?
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Biomarker predicts prolonged depression in breast cancer patients
SAN FRANCISCO – Elevated cortisol awakening response shows promise.
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Complicated grief treatment gets better results than interpersonal psychotherapy
SAN FRANCISCO – How can you get patients to stop blaming themselves in complicated grief treatment?
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Tweaking CBT may boost outcomes in hoarding disorder
SAN FRANCISCO – Maladaptive perfectionism may provide a novel target for cognitive-behavioral therapy in patients with hoarding disorder.
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Illness-induced PTSD is common, understudied
SAN FRANCISCO – Cognitive processing therapy may offer advantages over prolonged exposure for illness-induced PTSD.
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Children exposed to violence show accelerated cellular aging
SAN FRANCISCO – A study found blunted heart rate variability in response to stress in children aged 6-11.
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Elder abuse: Strong social support prevents associated psychopathology
SAN FRANCISCO – Social support helps erase the elevated risk of trauma-related psychopathology among elder adults.