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| CME Outfitters announces an upcoming neuroscienceCME activity titled "Depression as a Mind-Body Disorder in Minority Populations: Special Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment." Offered as a webcast and podcast premiering Monday, September 22, 2008, the activity will enable healthcare providers to gain insight into the specific needs of minorities when they are treated for depression, including such items as diagnosis, screening, compliance, and stigma. |
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| The International Foundation for Research and Education (iFred) asks for your vote for a fantastic newly proposed depression project called Defying to Depression: aLive iThrive. If it wins, this project will feature a live broadcast with various entertainers (suggestions include Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, etc.) and shine a positive, healthy light on this disease often seen in darkness. Depression is the number one disability worldwide and leading cause of suicide, and with your vote we can further our research on this epidemic and reduce negative stigma surrounding depression. |
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| Miranda Chakos, MD of SUNY Downstate Medical Center leads research for local patients |
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| The mental health needs of veterans and their families are a growing issue of concern among the American public. There has never been a more crucial time for the National Association of Social Workers and the Department of Veterans Affairs to work together on a joint symposium. |
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| Therapeutic boarding school for girls achieves impressive results with canine therapy program. |
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| In recognition of its two-year anniversary, Four Circles reflects on how far addiction treatment has come, and how much further it can go. |
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| Dr. Will Wilson is a faculty chair in the online university's Harold Abel School of Psychology |
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| Event will connect minority job seekers nationwide with positions in pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare industries |
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| NESCA Director Dr. Ann Helmus reported that In mid-July, 2008, her group's entire clinical staff of neuropsychologists and other specialists successfully completed two days of intensive training in the "collaborative problem-solving approach" to treating so-called "explosive kids", that is, children who have been labeled as unmotivated or even willfully oppositional or defiant, and given to uncontrollable emotional outbursts.
This ground-breaking technique builds upon the philosophy that in terms of meeting parental, academic or social expectations, "children do well if they can," and... |
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| New CE monograph, edited by Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD, reviews neurobiological and clinical evidence related to the pathophysiology, presentation, and management of bipolar depression, with a specific emphasis on atypical antipsychotics. |
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