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Statistics speak for themselves: more than 40% of Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lives. Fortunately, advances in medical technology and understanding, we often can be an effective treatment for cancer. Nevertheless, in general, less successful in the care of mental and social needs of cancer patients. Cancer patients often need assistance in learning skills and knowledge to manage their disease. They and their loved ones, also need assistance to deal with emotional problems, find transportation and other resources and the fight against interruptions in the work, school and family life.
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Meditation sessions proved to be a success for the members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists at its annual meeting at Imperial College, London - the growing number are on the argument that the spiritual discipline against anxiety and burnout.
Meditation workshops under the guidance of college spirituality 2000 - a strong group of special interests, are overbooked. "How to be a reference to the need for spiritual food, that the members of the College not so easily to the outside world," said Dr. Sarah Eagger, Chairman of the Group of spirituality.
Dr. Eagger, consultant psychiatrist at St. Charles Hospital, London, said that his daily practice of meditation is so important in their daily work, as their medical training. "The strength of spiritual practice really happening in his own when the patient is in distress himself, while dealing with pressure of work in groups with a huge burden, and then have to spend time filling forms that you think are not reliable. I have enough . Without the practice of meditation to cultivate the area was still inside, I want to suffer burnout. "
Dr Andrew Powell, founder Chairman of the Group of spirituality, said: "There is the degree of concern in the profession to be caught up in a culture of measurement and in the box score. The result is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to practice Psychiatry, anxiety and concern for our patients to maintain human values and not caught up in "us and them" mentality. "
Nevertheless, many psychiatrists struggle to understand the importance of spirituality to their work, the meeting was told. Julia Head, a specialist chaplains in the Maudsley Hospital in London, told the conference that spirituality is increasingly recognized as an important part of good mental health.
"National Institute of Mental Health in England, is only the latest body to recognize the limits of modern medicine with the recommendation that experts in the field of spiritual support and physical therapy, including drugs," said Dr. chief, coordinates "the exploitation of training programmes for mental health 300 Specialists in areas of London Southwark and Lambeth.
"Experts should encourage hope and desire for change and the possibility of recovery. Nevertheless, the idea of healing, in contrast to clinical treatment, is that alien to many experts," he said. "You feel trapped in a culture where measuring clinical activities is a priority. It is time to realize that in order to support their patients recover, they must feel the assessment and allow time for their own growth."
The meeting also said that the evidence for the therapeutic benefits of meditation for a wide range of health problems was significantly stronger than most drugs. The new meta-analysis of 823 randomized controlled trials of meditation in which the United States - the National Institute of alternative and complementary medicine, showed clinical benefits of meditation through a wide range of physical and emotional disorders.
"Meditation is a way of life, not a rapid solution achieved through the payment of eight sessions or to use tricks, such as smoking, music and light", Dr Avdesh Sharma, former president of Psychiatric Association of India, he said. "It does not work immediately. We need to practice for several weeks before the consequences will be felt gradually."
Dr. Sharma added: "If meditation is a drug that we all want to see it in action. He has a positive influence on most of the problems of physical health and very effective for mental health significantly reduce depression and improve Fear relaxation, oxygen to the brain, insomnia and energy. "
Reference:
The Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Imperial College, London, 1 - 4 July 2008
adapted from www.rcpsych.ac.uk
For many women the secret of good sleep is a happy marriage, according to the study in the United States.
University of Pittsburgh researchers studied nearly 2000 middle-aged women across the country. In particular, it covers issues its own assessment of their marital happiness and compare how well they slept.
The team led by Dr. Wendy Troxel fortunately, it was found that married women have less difficulty falling asleep, sleep, less Awakenings in early morning and go to bed in comparison with married women, unfortunately.
"The findings show that happily married women have fewer problems sleeping," he said.
The reference is not respected, but in a minority of women from ethnic minorities.
Written by Michael Day
Adapted from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Almost 80% of hospitals say that the mentally ill would be admitted to hospital must wait, sometimes for four hours or more to be admitted because of a lack of psychiatric beds and mental health personnel for the Study of the American College of Emergency Physicians, USA Today reports. For comparison, 30% from the hospital, said patients not seeking psychiatric care had to wait four hours or more before they are admitted.
For the study, ACEP officials surveyed 328 emergency medical directors. The study also found:
Number of beds in psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. community had fallen 12% since 2000, compared with a decrease of 4% of the total number of hospital beds, according ACEP.
According to James Bentley from the American Hospital Association, clinics, psychiatric units have begun to close because of low payments from government programs and health insurance, uncompensated services to uninsured patients and the shortage of psychiatrists to work in hospitals. Bruce Schwartz, director of psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center, said: "For people needing to register because they are psychotic or severe depression, which can be very unpleasant, disturbing, confusing time" (Appleby, USA Today, 6 / 17).
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As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) works to close the last trailer parks that many Gulf-area hurricane survivors call home this weekend, the findings of a new study suggest that displacement affects survivors' mental health. More than half of the study participants reported significant long-term mental health distress, even as they moved back to their original communities. These findings are published in the latest issue of the American Medical Association (AMA) Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal.
The study, "Prevalence and Predictors of Mental Health Distress Post-Katrina," measured mental health distress and disability among members of more than a thousand households in Louisiana and Mississippi who lived in areas greatly affected by Hurricane Katrina or who were forced to evacuate after the storm. Poor physical health, moving often, and living in unsafe neighborhoods were among the significant factors of people more likely to have poor mental health. People with children in the household were also more likely to exhibit higher levels of mental health distress as the study suggests having a responsibility for others, particularly children, during a time of uncertainty and chaos, may lead to such distress.
"People who did not have strong informal support networks, who were afraid in their community, or who were more fatalistic were far more likely to exhibit mental health distress and disability," says lead study author David Abramson, PhD, MPH, Director of Research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Participants were interviewed face-to-face six to 12 months after Katrina, and a telephone follow-up was conducted at 20 to 23 months after the disaster. Over time, several factors were associated with better mental health - including a functional social network and a positive state of mind.
"These findings show that rebuilding communities - and their social support networks - can greatly contribute to people's recovery," Dr. Abramson concludes.
Additional articles in the June issue of the AMA disaster journal include:
This article is available ahead of print and the full journal will publish June 3.
About AMA's Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal
The AMA Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal was created to promote public health preparedness and the science of disaster medicine. It is the first comprehensive, peer-reviewed publication emphasizing public health preparedness and disaster response. The journal is published for the AMA by leading health care publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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Marlene Busko
May 28, 2008 (London, United Kingdom) — Mice containing a mutation in a gene encoding neuroligin-3, which is implicated in human autism, may represent the first genetically accurate model of autism that is not confounded by other neurological diseases, researchers report.
The study, by Craig M. Powell, MD, and colleagues, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, Texas, showed that mice with a neuroligin-3
R451C substitution exhibited impaired social interaction but also showed superior spacial learning skills.
Dr. Powell presented these findings in an oral presentation at the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research. Part of this work was recently published (Tabuchi K et al. Science. 2007;318:71-76).
"We've created the first animal model that’s a genetically accurate model of autism that’s not associated with other neuropsychiatric syndromes like fragile X syndrome, Rett's syndrome, or tuberous sclerosis," Dr. Powell told Medscape Psychiatry.
Their data suggest that this mouse model may be useful to better understand the molecular mechanism of autism and ultimately to design and test new therapeutic approaches, he added.
What Is Happening in the Autistic Brain?
During the past several years, scientists have been attempting to develop an appropriate animal model for autism, the group writes.
A small percentage of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carry mutations in genes encoding neuroligin-3 and -4, which are postsynaptic cell-adhesion molecules, they note. In addition, mutations in neuroligin binding partners, neurexin-1 and shank-3, have also been found in patients with ASD.
The team aimed to create and characterize a genetically accurate mouse model of autism by introducing a mutation linked with autism — the R451C substitution in neuroligin-3 — into mice.
The researchers examined the performance of 19 "knock-in" mice with this mutation vs 19 wild-type littermate controls in a variety of behavioral tests relevant to autism. They also performed various tests to measure synaptic protein activity.
Compared with the control mice, the R451C-mutant knock-in mice showed impaired social interaction, but they had normal anxiety, coordination, and sensitivity to pain. Interestingly, the mice with the mutated gene performed better in the Morris water maze, which showed that they had enhanced spatial learning ability.
Unexpectedly, these behavioral changes in the mutant mice were accompanied by an increase in inhibitory synaptic transmission in the cortex.
Encouraging Early Results
"These are very encouraging preliminary data," said Dr. Powell.
"What we are trying to do now is target the changes in synaptic function in these mice — the increase in inhibitory synaptic function in the cortex," he said. "We're using drugs that might reduce the level of inhibition that's abnormally elevated in the knock-in mice," he added, noting that it is hoped that this will treat the behavioral symptoms in the mice.
By looking at more mouse models and gaining a better understanding of what is wrong with the brain in autism, researchers hope to find common pathways that would some day be potential drug targets for patients, he said.
7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research: Oral Presentation 132.1. May 15-17, 2008
taken from medscape.com
Lone asylum seeking children are more likely to have experienced high levels of war trauma, combat and torture than those who arrive in a country with adult carers, according to a new study looking at the mental health of asylum seeking children in the UK.
The authors of the research, which is published online this week in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, are calling on governments to ensure that children who arrive in a country on their own are offered appropriate support.
The study reveals that lone asylum seeking children are at much greater risk of mental health problems, such as post traumatic stress symptoms, than their accompanied peers. Such children are sent away from their families, or flee their communities, because of persecution, organised violence or war.
There are an estimated 5,500 unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the UK. According to the new research, placing such children in foster care greatly helps their mental health. In the UK, unaccompanied asylum seekers aged between 16 and 18 are often placed in bed and breakfast accommodation, receiving a lower level of support than children who come into the care system at an earlier age. Foster care and high support living arrangements can prove costly for local authorities.
The study showed that unaccompanied asylum seekers living independently had higher levels of post traumatic symptoms, such as preoccupation with the war events, flashbacks and nightmares, than those living in foster care.
Overall, more than half of the male (61%) and nearly three quarters of the female unaccompanied asylum seekers (73%) were assessed as having a high risk of post traumatic stress disorder, far more than the accompanied male and female refugee children (14% and 35% respectively).
Those who were unaccompanied had much greater personal experience of war, including combat, torture and detention, than those who were accompanied. Many more of the lone asylum seeking children in the new study (45%) had been involved in combat, compared with the accompanied children (12%). Nearly half had experienced torture of some kind (38%), whereas very few had been subjected to torture in the accompanied group (3%). In the lone group nearly one in five reported that they had been imprisoned or in detention of some kind (18%), compared with only one in twenty in the accompanied group (6%).
Dr Matthew Hodes, lead author of the new study from the Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health at Imperial College London, said: "Ours is the first study from the UK to directly investigate the war trauma that unaccompanied asylum seeking children have experienced and see how this relates to their psychological state. It shows that there is a close relationship between the levels of distress that these children experience and their living arrangements.
"These children often arrive in the UK after experiencing terrible things in their home country, and we would like to see foster care or special children's homes offered to them in order to reduce their suffering. Living with a foster family reduces a child's sense of isolation, provides them with someone who can care for them, and helps them to integrate with other children and adults. All of these factors can help lower their post traumatic stress symptoms and other studies show that many of the children much prefer this kind of care," added Dr Hodes.
The study compared the experiences of 78 unaccompanied asylum seeking children aged 18 and under, predominantly from the Balkans and Horn of Africa, who were supported by the City of Westminster local authority in London, with 35 accompanied refugee children living with family members. The children were interviewed about their experiences prior to reaching the UK and their current living arrangements, and completed questionnaires designed to reveal the state of their mental health, including post traumatic and depression symptoms.
Women who commit sexual offences are just as likely to have mental problems or drug addictions as other violent female criminals. This according to the largest study ever conducted of women convicted of sexual offences in Sweden.
Between 1988 and 2000, 93 women and 8,500 men were convicted of sexual offences in Sweden. Given that previous research has focused on male perpetrators, knowledge of the factors specific to female sex offenders has been scant.
A group of researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now looked into incidences of mental illness and drug abuse in these 93 convicted women, and compared them with over 20,000 randomly selected women in the normal population and with the 13,000-plus women who were convicted of non-sexual crimes over the same period.
Thirty-seven per cent of the women convicted of sex offences had undergone treatment at a psychiatric clinic during the period, and eight per cent had been diagnosed as having a psychosis. There was no difference in incidences of mental illness and drug abuse between these women and women who had committed other kinds of violent crime.
"This is interesting as men who commit sexual offences usually have fewer psychiatric problems than men who commit other violent crimes," says Niklas Långström, Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet's Centre for Violence Prevention and one of the authors of the study. "So it seems as if female sex offenders, more so than male, suffer from mental illness or have drug problems."
However, the figures differ widely from the control group. Incidences of psychosis were 16 times higher amongst the sex offenders than the control group, drug abuse 23 times higher. According to the research team, the results indicate that women suspected or convicted of sexual offences should undergo routine psychiatric examination, something which, at present, is not done.
By sexual offence in this study is meant rape, non-consensual sex, sexual abuse and sexual molestation. The group has earlier published a similar study on male sexual offenders.
Publication:
'Sexual Offending in Women and Psychiatric Disorder: A National Case-Control Study'
Seena Fazel, Gabrielle Sjöstedt, Martin Grann & Niklas Långström
Archives of Sexual Behavior, online Maj 2008, DOI 10.1007/s10508-008-9375-4.
Karolinska Institutet is one of the leading medical universities in Europe. Through research, education and information, Karolinska Institutet contributes to improving human health. Each year, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Middletown Psychiatric CenterAbout Middletown Psychiatric Center
Middletown Psychiatric Center (MPC) offers contemporary treatment for adults with complex mental illnesses. The goal of treatment is recovery. Treatment and rehabilitation by an inter-disciplinary team of mental health professionals aim at equipping patients to manage their illness, strengthen their skills and better the quality of their lives. MPC¹s inpatient units and administration are located in Tuckerman Hall with Outpatient and Residential Services throughout Orange and Sullivan counties.
MPC's innovative 25,000 square foot Treatment Mall brings together, in one location, contemporary treatment and rehabilitation, specialized programs to build daily life skills, indoor and outdoor activities, hobbies and patient services. This program has been replicated in over 25 hospitals in 7 states.
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MPC offers programs to meet patients' individual treatment requirements while responding with sensitivity to their diverse cultural backgrounds and needs. Specialized services include programs for: co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse; geriatric patients participating in the community through volunteer work (e.g., Meals on Wheels); patients requiring a structured, secure treatment setting; patients in need of comprehensive skills building; cognitive remediation to improve intellectual functioning.
MPC participates with Columbia University and Psychiatric Institute in advanced psychiatric training in Geriatric and Public Psychiatry. MPC serves as a nexus for consultations and dissemination of knowledge to the community, from information about new medications to assistance in the design of humane residential environments. Fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Health Care Organizations, Middletown Psychiatric Center has an outstanding record in surveys conducted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Federal Health Care Finance Administration.
MPC has pioneered the development of a Community Campus, a dramatic departure from the isolation of traditional psychiatric hospitals. The hospital now shares the 226 acre grounds with a full spectrum of mutually supportive public and non-profit agencies serving the community in the areas of mental health, health, education, human services, housing and economic development. For patients, the Community Campus means convenient access to community services and skills building programs. By breaking down barriers which historically separated hospital from community, the stigma of mental illness is reduced.
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Orange and Sullivan Counties
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