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Mental Disorders Prevalent in Youth, Says Study (The Harvard Crimson)

Nearly half of college-age adults suffer from one or more psychiatric disorders, according to new research published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

InforSense partners with institutions in UK to combat Alzheimer's disease (PharmaBiz)

InforSense Ltd, the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, announced that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London will use InforSense's translational research ...

Is There Really an Epidemic of Depression? (Scientific American)

Jonah Lehrer, the editor of Mind Matters, asked Allan Horwitz, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, and Jerome Wakefield, professor of social work at New York University, a few questions about their recent book, The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Illness. [More]

Incubator care for infants protects against adult depression: Study (Canada.com)

Babies who get incubator care are two to three times less likely to suffer major depression as adults, according to a Montreal study published online in the Psychiatry Research journal.

Sleep Treatment Helps Alzheimer’s (Psych Central)

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment seems to improve cognitive functioning in patients with Alzheimer’s disease who also suffer from obstructive sleep apnea. The research team, including physicians from University of California, San Diego’s departments of psychiatry, medicine, neurosciences and family and preventive medicine, and Veteran’s Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, ...