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PULSE ANNUAL No. 2
January 2003

Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
March 2002

PULSE ANNUAL No. 1
October 2001

 

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Medscape Journal Scan - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, September 2003
Articles from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Psychiatric Services and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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Helping Young Girls Avoid Depression
Health Day News story at Yahoo - "A new model that looks at genes and environment to identify depression and anxiety in young girls has been developed by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The method could help better identify young girls who are at high risk for depression once they enter puberty and begin early intervention. It is outlined in a special October issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry."  
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Gene Found for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Reuters Health story - "U.S. and Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a genetic mutation that causes obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental illnesses and said some patients had a second mutation that made their conditions worse. The rare finding could make it easier to discover good treatments for the disorder, one of the top 10 leading causes of disability worldwide."  
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