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July 14, 2008
Preventing teen suicide by identifying the illness early
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July 14, 2008
Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young
, Associated Press, :
July 14, 2008
Misdiagnosed? Bipolar Diagnoses Up; Experts Question It
, The Bulletin, :
July 14, 2008
Wild at heart
Indianapolis Star, :
September 19, 2007
Parents, don’’t be remote; control your kids’’ TV viewing Sensible, loving parents don’’t let their kids play in traffic. Responsible parents don’’t feed their kids a bowl of M&Ms each evening and call it supper. When it comes to parental oversight of kids’’ television habits, however, too many parents fail to see the harm in excessive screen time. Given what is known about television’’s effects on kids, this mismanagement amounts to soft child abuse...Recent research at Columbia University indicates that teens who watch three or more hours of TV per day develop a higher risk for learning problems.
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September 17, 2007
New research has uncovered a biological link between anger and the risk of heart disease A screaming match may be heartbreaking in more ways than one. New research shows that high levels of hostility, anger and depression can predict a higher risk of heart disease in men. The study, published in the August issue of the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, is one of many linking hostility and heart health... Making the mind-body connection with anger is more difficult than it was with depression, say some researchers, because the medical community lacks a standardised definition of hostility. "Different authors have suggested different definitions," says Julie Schulman, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, New York. "There are quite a number of different tests. There are many questionnaires that don't necessarily agree with each other or mean the same thing."
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September 10, 2007
Troubled kids' ailments tough to diagnose
The sharp increase in kids' office visits for bipolar disorder, which causes extremes of mania and depression and raises the risk of suicide, surprised some medical experts. It also reignited debate over whether more affected children are being helped earlier in the disease or too quickly prescribed potentially harmful medication when they may suffer from a different but related condition.
"Given the preponderance of boys, their young age and the number of them also being diagnosed and treated for ADHD, all of these things are consistent with some misdiagnosis," said Dr. Mark Olfson, senior author of the report and professor of clinical psychiatry at New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University in New York.
Daily Mail, :
September 5, 2007
Being depressed can hinder recovery from a heart attack and raises the risk of having another one, say researchers. Dr Alexander Glassman of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, led the study of 290 depressed patients who had survived a heart attack.
NY Times, :
September 4, 2007
Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young The senior author of the study, Dr. Mark Olfson of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at the Columbia University Medical Center, said, “I have been studying trends in mental health services for some time, and this finding really stands out as one of the most striking increases in this short a time.”
Washington Post, :
September 4, 2007
Bipolar Disorder Rise In Kids, Teens Doubted
The study’’s lead author, Mark Olfson of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, said the results likely reflect overdiagnosis now or underdiagnosis in the past, rather than a true increase.
