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Schizophrenia Study Finds Similarities Across 37 Countries

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

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An international study of more than 17,000 people with schizophrenia has found striking similarities in symptoms, medication, employment and sexual pr...

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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FDA Considers Caving to Scientology and Making Mental Illness Treatment Illegal

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Church of Scientology, Mental Illness, Scientology, Depression, Mental Health, Fda, Electroshock Therapy, Schizophrenia, Scientologists, Bipolar, Psychosis, Ect, Food and Drug Administration, Electroconvulsive-Therapy, Shock Therapy, Nami, Treatment Advocacy Center, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Japan, American Psychiatric Association, Living News
DJ Jaffe

As far-fetched as it sounds, the FDA is considering making it more difficult to treat depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis.

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Schizophrenic Homesick Blues

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Jani Schofield, Health, Schizophrenia, Living News
Robert David Jaffee

The story of Jani Schofield makes one realize that not all diagnoses are created equal and some diagnoses, like child-onset schizophrenia, will never be fashionable.

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Meds can Reduce Homelessness but the Homeless (and Advocates) Don't Get It.

DJ Jaffe | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Mental Illness, Homeless, Treatment Advocacy Center, Mentally Ill, Homeless Mentally Ill, Homelessness, Schizophrenia, Mental Health Policy, Bipolar, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

It's time for advocates to stop denying the role of untreated mental illness in causing homelessness. Treatment may not be a magic pill, but it's the closest thing we have.

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Howard Barton Unruh Dead: "Walk Of Death" Mass Murderer Who Killed 13 In 1949 Dies At 88

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

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TRENTON, N.J. — Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nat...

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Elyn Saks: Recovery Of A Genius

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Elyn Saks, Health, Schizophrenia, Living News
Robert David Jaffee

The vast majority of psychotics are never a threat to anyone but themselves. Those with severe mental illness but no substance abuse problems commit only 3 to 4% of violent crime.

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Mental Illness Awareness Week Is Nothing to Celebrate -- In Fact, It Doesn't Even Exist

DJ Jaffe | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Nimh, Stigma, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Mentally Ill, Fuller Torrey, Schizophrenia, Samhsa, Mental Illness Awareness Week, Living News
DJ Jaffe

Right now, well meaning mental health advocates are busy hosting events to reduce the "stigma" of mental illness. Except that there is no 'stigma' to having a mental illness. There is discrimination.

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Words Matter in Mental Health Debate

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Paris Hilton, Schizophrenia, Mental Health, Psychosis, Mel Gibson, Barack Obama, Living News
Robert David Jaffee

Celebrities know that words like "manic-depressive" and "bipolar" sound tame, whereas "psychotic" and "schizophrenic" terrify people. We should all know their true meaning: divorced from reality, not violent.

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Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Brain Health, Tbi, Cognitive Assessments, Bill Reichman, Cognitive Bias, Neuroscience, Schizophrenia, Cognitive Training, Treatment, Dana Foundation, Stanford University, Augmented Cognition, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, World Economic Forum, Brain Fitness Software, Frontiers, Workplaces, Augmenting Cognition, Aging, Brain Awareness Week, Lifestyle, MATRICS Cognitive Battery, Libraries, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurocognitive, Pharmacological, Society for Neuroscience, Brain Age, Torkel Klingberg, Cognitive, Cognitive Age, Baycrest, Schools, Cognition, Healthcare, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years -- without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination.

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Unlocked: The Secrets Of Schizophrenia

The Independent | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Schizophrenia Secrets, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Treatment, World News

Scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is...

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Showing Up for "The Soloist"

Carol Smaldino | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Joe Write, Colonialism, Steve Lopez, The Soloist, Carol Smaldino, Homelessness, US Poverty, Schizophrenia, Racism, Jamie Foxx, Accountability, Robert Downey Jr, Compassion, Entertainment News
Carol Smaldino

This is a film that can be so moving in stunningly powerful ways that it may be tempting to avoid watching it.

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What The Soloist Tells Us About Homelessness and Mental Illness in America

Deborah De Santis | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Behavioral Illness, Mental Illness, Paranoid, The Soloist, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia, Los Angeles-California, Entertainment News
Deborah De Santis

For those of us who work to help prevent and end homelessness, The Soloist is an all-too-real reminder of the daily obstacles people who are homeless and their advocates face.

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Revolutionary Road, A Beautiful Mind and Truthfulness

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 04.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mental Illness, Big Pharma, Ron Howard, Schizophrenia, Robert Whitaker, Revolutionary Road, Mad in America, A-Beautiful-Mind, Medication, Sam Mendes, John Givings, John Nash, Michael Shannon, Richard Yates, Entertainment News
Bruce E. Levine

Sam Mendes and Michael Shannon remind us that people who are diagnosed with seriously mental illness can, when feeling respected, say profound things and should be taken seriously.

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Why New York City Needed A Comprehensive Web Site for Mental Illness

Charlotte Moses Fischman | Posted 04.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Bipolar Children, Schizophrenia-Medication, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Recession Anxiety, Depression-How-to-Deal-With-Depression, Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar Disorder, Economic Anxiety, How to Deal With Stress, How to Deal With Anxiety, Schizophrenia Treatment, Anxiety, Living News
Charlotte Moses Fischman

When our family was thrust into the world of mental illness, we felt like we had been cast into outer space. Now, the NYC community finally has a web site to help families, consumers and providers.

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Searching for Bobby Fischer... and Bobby Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 02.17.2009 | Living

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Jay Neugeboren

The parallels in the lives of my brother and Fischer are often as remarkable as they are sad, and I've tried here to tell part of the story:

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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Why the Obama Administration Must Appoint an NIH Director Committed to Cures

Lou Weisbach | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Lou Weisbach

There must be a place in the NIH where the discovery of knowledge is focused on preventing or curing the diseases of our loved ones.

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Not By Genes Alone

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Health, Mental Illness Care, Depression, Mental Health, Crespi, Mental Health Research, The New York Times, Synaptical Connections, Genetic Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Brain Chemistry, Eric Kandel, Badcock, Research Funding, Schizophrenia, Genes Mental Disorders, Chronic Mental Illness, Adult Homes, Mental Facility, Living News
Jay Neugeboren

Why is it generally easier to find funds for people who study mental disorders in laboratories than it is to find funds that make a difference in the lives of people with mental disorders?

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Glad To Be Mad: Mentally Ill Start 'Mad Pride' Movement (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living

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Yesterday the New York Times explored the burgeoning "mad pride" movement, which aims to fight the stigma of serious mental illness like schizophrenia...

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New Schizophrenia Drug Offers Hope

The New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Medication, Schizophrenia Treatment, Schizophrenia, Living News

The drug had reduced schizophrenic symptoms, validating the efforts of hundreds of scientists, inside and outside of Lilly, who had labored together f...

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