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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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Journal Scan: Psychiatry, November 2003This Journal Scan at Medscape "is the clinician's guide to the latest clinical research findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Short summaries of feature articles include links to the article abstracts and full text, when available." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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Journal Scan: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, November 2003A selection of articles at Medscape from Pediatrics, the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services and Child Psychiatry and Human Development. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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New technology helps diagnose mental illnessScripps Howard news service story reprinted at the NAMI web site - "...Some doctors and researchers are looking toward new brain imaging technologies that may lead to quicker and more accurate diagnoses of mental illnesses and may aid in finding the best treatments. The Health Sciences Center recently received $2 million from the National Institute of Health to buy a whole head MEG (magnetoencephalography) system, a machine that lets researchers track brain activity of the entire head simultaneously. They're using it to study mental illnesses..."  
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Depressed Children Show Altered Stress ResponseReuters Health story at Yahoo based on research published in the Archives of General Psychiatry - "Preschoolers with clinical depression show a different pattern of stress hormone activity than other children their age, according to a new study. The hormone pattern is are similar to those seen in depressed adults, which suggests that abnormal stress responses in depressive disorders occur 'across the lifespan.' Researchers found that, unlike other preschoolers in their study, depressed children showed no dip in levels of the stress hormone cortisol while in the research setting. Instead, their cortisol levels continued to climb while those of the other children declined once they got comfortable with the unfamiliar environment..."  
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