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It is reported that 32.3 percent of students with ADHD drop out of high school while 15 percent of teens with no reported psychiatric disorders leave school prior to graduation. http://clinicallypsyched.com/rem-sleep-neurodegenerative-disease-onset/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/rem-sleep-neurodegenerative-disease-onset/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:01:40 +0000 A new study has shown that REM sleep behavior disorder can signify the onset of neurodegenerative disorders up to 50 years in advance of symptoms appearing. http://clinicallypsyched.com/the-summer-institute-on-neurodevelopmental-disorders/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/the-summer-institute-on-neurodevelopmental-disorders/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:43:35 +0000 For more information about this event, or to obtain an enrollment application pack, please visit UC Davis Health System. http://clinicallypsyched.com/link-between-reality-tv-and-teens-desire-for-cosmetic-surgery/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/link-between-reality-tv-and-teens-desire-for-cosmetic-surgery/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:14:20 +0000 New research from psychologists at Rutgers-Camden has discovered that teenagers who regularly watch 'aesthetic enhancing' reality shows, such as Extreme Makeover and The Swan, are more inclined to consider cosmetic surgery than their non viewing counterparts. http://clinicallypsyched.com/ptsd-still-prevalent-20-years-after-conflict-ends/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/ptsd-still-prevalent-20-years-after-conflict-ends/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:53:19 +0000 New research from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has found that the prevalence of PTSD remains high twenty years after the end of conflict within specific regions of Libya. http://clinicallypsyched.com/mental-health-treatment-reducing-osteoarthritis-pain/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/mental-health-treatment-reducing-osteoarthritis-pain/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:34:29 +0000 New research from UC Davis has discovered that worsening pain association with osteoarthritis is directly correlated with a decline in mental health. It is suggested that mental health treatment could provide an effective relief for people suffering osteoarthritis pain. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinically-psyched-redesign/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinically-psyched-redesign/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:22:00 +0000 At the moment, we are still in the process of completely redesigning Clinically Psyched and ironing out some glitches. We expect that the vast majority of the aesthetic redesign work will be complete within the next week, although during this time we will continue to post new clinical psychology news for our readers to follow. http://clinicallypsyched.com/how-we-recognize-faces-and-interpret-expressions/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/how-we-recognize-faces-and-interpret-expressions/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:24:23 +0000 A researcher at TAU is working to understand how the mechanisms of the fusiform gyrus process information about how we recognize faces and interpret facial expressions. Future research could help develop new computer algorithms for facial recognition. http://clinicallypsyched.com/listening-to-music-can-impare-cognitive-performance/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/listening-to-music-can-impare-cognitive-performance/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:49 +0000 New research from psychologists at UWIC states that listening to music does not enhance cognitive performance while participating in recall tasks. http://clinicallypsyched.com/tests-predict-suicide-risk/ http://clinicallypsyched.com/tests-predict-suicide-risk/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:12:46 +0000 Psychologists at Harvard University have developed two new tests which they believe can predict a patients risk of attempting suicide. Initial results show that patients who have strong associations between self and death are six times more likely to attempt suicide than those who associate self with life. Researchers working with Professor Gudrun Rappold, Director of the Department of Molecular Human Genetics at Heidelberg University Hospital, have discovered previously unknown mutations in autistic and mentally impaired patients in what is known as the SHANK2 gene, a gene that is partially responsible for linking nerve cells. http://clinicallypsyched.com/genetic-component-child-teen-behavioral-development-clinical-psychology.html A family-based prevention program designed to help adolescents avoid substance use and other risky behavior proved especially effective for a group of young teens with a genetic risk factor contributing toward such behavior, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia. http://clinicallypsyched.com/genetic-component-child-teen-behavioral-development-clinical-psychology.html The battle ended for Hutchison on Sunday. He died in Basra, Iraq, of wounds from a roadside bomb in Al Farr. He is the oldest U.S. service member to die in Iraq or Afghanistan. http://clinicallypsyched.com/psychologist-killed-iraq-war-psychology-news.html Scientists have used brain scanning technology to watch the formation of emotions ranging from love and lust to anger and disgust. Last month researchers even suggested they could use a variant of fMRI, called diffusion tensor imaging, to show how people with high IQs think faster. http://clinicallypsyched.com/fmri-brain-scan-neuroscience-research-neurotheology-news.html One reason antidepressant medication treatments do not work as well in real life as they do in clinical studies could be the limited type of study participants selected, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. http://clinicallypsyched.com/depression-patients-atypical-antidepressant-psychopharamacology-news.html From idyllic countryside to gross acts of violence, why an innocent daydream can sometimes turn nasty and what it means . http://clinicallypsyched.com/daydreams-ocd-anxiety-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-clinical-psychology-news.html Trauma experienced by a mother even before pregnancy will influence her offspring's behavior. The findings show that trauma from a mother's past, which does not directly impact her pregnancy, will affect her offspring's emotional and social behavior. http://clinicallypsyched.com/mother-trauma-pregnancy-child-behaviour-psychology-news.html We have recently started a twitter account on which we will post links and responses to the latest news in clinical psychology. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinicalpsychologyblog/2009/04/22/you-can-now-follow-us-on-twitter/ A new theory about early human adaptation suggests that our ancestors capitalized on their capacities for play to enable the development of a highly cooperative way of life. http://clinicallypsyched.com/play-child-social-develpment-psychology-news.html Imagine This: Study Suggests Power of Imagination is More Than Just a Metaphor. http://clinicallypsyched.com/imagination-power-peripersonal-space-cognitive-psychology.html Media culture should allow time for reflective moments, say USC neuroscientists in a study that also shows higher emotions to be as rooted in the body as primal impulses. http://clinicallypsyched.com/digital-media-technology-psychology-neuroscience-news.html The UK's largest anxiety charity has reported a dramatic rise in the number of people approaching the organisation for help. http://clinicallypsyched.com/anxiety-mental-health-recession-clinical-psychology-news.html A type of talking treatment called cognitive behavioural therapy helps elderly people suffering from anxiety, according to a new study. Anxiety and depression often go unrecognised in older people, or else they are treated with medication. http://clinicallypsyched.com/cognitive-therapy-anxiety-old-age-eldery-treatment.html A new study conducted at Mayo Clinic reports that one in six patients receiving therapeutic doses of certain drugs for Parkinson's disease develops new-onset, potentially destructive behaviors, notably compulsive gambling or hypersexuality. http://clinicallypsyched.com/parkinsons-drug-destructive-behavior-psychpharmacology-news.html British soldiers victims of a mental conflict without end. It was nobody's fault, he said. Anthony Montgomery was a 21-year-old Royal Marine when he was ambushed by his own side on regular reconnaissance in the Falklands. Minutes later, he was trying to revive his friend who had been cut in half by British guns. http://clinicallypsyched.com/ptsd-soldiers-war-stress-disorder-post-traumatic-mental-health.html The study shows that people who smoke menthol brand cigarettes have a lower success rate at quitting the habbit than those who smoke traditional flavored cigarettes. This is particularly problematic for the African American and Latino communities, who prefer menthol cigarettes over full flavored brands. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinicalpsychologyblog/2009/01/17/quitting-menthol-cigarettes-is-harder-than-quitting-traditional-flavored-cigarettes/ Alzheimer's patients who are given powerful drugs to calm them down are almost twice as likely to die prematurely as those not given the medication, a study has found. http://clinicallypsyched.com/alzheimers-drug-death-risk-clinical-psychology-news.html This year, we are aiming to make some significant change to our website. We are hoping to have a new website design up and running within the next few months and add more features to this website in order to make it more user friendly. We are considering including an education centre with some relevant psychology lectures, and ask users to contact us if they wish to use our site in order to post educational materials. Additionally, we are looking into adding podcasts and videos to the website. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinicalpsychologyblog/2009/01/04/happy-new-year-from-clinically-psyched/ A comprehensive list of psychology related events and conferences for 2009. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinicalpsychologyblog/psychology-events-and-conferences/ If you're still looking for the perfect psychology related gift for a loved one this Christmas, please check out our Clinically Psyched store. We have recently updated the content and have added new novelty gifts that any psychologist would love to find wrapped up and waiting for them under the Christmas tree this year. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinicalpsychologyblog/2008/12/21/clinically-psyched-store-updates/ In a new study, participants who considered that they were receiving electrical shocks intentionally from another person experienced more pain than their cohorts who considered the electrical shocks they were receiving were accidental. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinicalpsychologyblog/2008/12/20/pain-hurts-more-if-it-is-intentional/ Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by an authority figure. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/milgrim-test-replicated-electric-shock-obedience-psychology-social.html Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have recently discovered that smoke produced by "light" cigarettes contain higher levels of toxicity than their full flavored counterparts. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/light-cigarettes-high-toxicity-research-embryonic-development-news.html The credit crunch hits relationships and marriages. As job cuts surge, how do couples cope when a husband loses his job? http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/ecconomic-effects-relationship-mortgage-credit-crunch-psychology.html Childhood sexual abuse victims with a strong religious upbringing often report feeling terrible guilt about their assault, which doesn't surprise Jean-Guy Nadon. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/religion-child-abuse-mental-health-news.html The virus that causes cold sores may be one of the main causes of Alzheimers disease, according to research that suggests that existing drugs could be used to treat the most common form of dementia. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/alzheimers-hsv1-virus-cause-psychology-medical-health-news.html He knew his name. That much he could remember. He knew that his fathers family came from Thibodaux, La. and his mother was from Ireland, and he knew about the 1929 stock market crash and World War II and life in the 1940s. But he could remember almost nothing after that. http://www.neurosciencenews.com/hm-dies-amnesia.htm A new universal test to predict the risk of someone succumbing to major depression has been developed by UCL (University College London) researchers. The online tool, predictD, could eventually be used by family doctors and local clinics to identify those at risk of depression for whom prevention might be most useful. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/test-for-depression-mental-health-news.html We recently posted an article about the effects on a child growing up with a mentally ill parent. Within days, we received numerous emails from users wishing to share their own experiences of their lives with mentally ill parents, and the subsequent effects this has left lingering into their adult hood. http://clinicallypsyched.com/clinicalpsychologyblog/2008/12/02/life-with-a-mentally-ill-parent-a-readers-story/ Lower childhood IQ associated with higher risk of adult mental disorders - Mental health professionals should consider cognitive ability of patients in prevention and treatment planning. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/IQ-mental-health-correlation-clinical-psychology-news.html In one of the first instances of targeted drug design in psychiatric treatment, University of Pittsburgh researchers have found an experimental agent that shows promise in addressing working memory impairments that occur in the schizophrenia. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/schizophrenia-treatment-drug-psychopharmacology-article-mental-health-news.html Swiss voters back 14million pound-a-year health scheme to give addicts free heroin. The free provision of heroin to addicts won the overwhelming support of Swiss voters yesterday. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/swiss-aid-heroin-addicts-psychopharmacology-news.html Novelist Sarah May was fine after having her first baby, so why did she suffer postnatal depression the second time around? http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/post-natal-depression-mental-health-article-clinical-psychology.html The impact of size zero media ideals on body image is just one of the fascinating topics up for discussion by local students at The British Psychological Society's upcoming student lecture on Tuesday 9 December 2008. Students from London and beyond are invited to hear from some of the UK's top psychologists at the event. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/bps-student-invitation-london-lecture-clinical-psychology-news.html Valerie Frankel was just 11 years old when her mother first encouraged her to shed a few pounds. From that moment on, she began a life preoccupied with losing weight. In her diet addict's memoir, the writer admits her obsession with weight loss almost overshadowed her husband's final days.(ALS). http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/diet-addiction-health-clinical-psychology-addictive-behaviour-news.html Imagined enemies at the gate, bugged TVs. In a raw and revealing dissection of her childhood and life now, writer Francesca Okeke describes what it is like growing up with a mentally ill parent. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/mental-illness-parent-child-psychology.html The Clinically Psyched, clinical psychology news team are proud to announce the opening of a brand new social network website aimed at providing a safe and informative community for those interested in psychology. http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/socially-psyched-clinical-psychology-social-network-clinicall-psyched-community.html