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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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A Guide for Consumer Organization Leadership: Principles for Practice
Adobe Acrobat version of a report from the National Empowerment Center, made available at the Open Minds web site - " The purpose of this guidebook is to provide information about leading your organization toward that future. It summarizes those key leadership issues that are likely to be most relevant to the situations you face as consumer leaders. It provides information that will augment and enrich your current leadership practices and assist you in building new skills. The guide is broad-scoped, but with a premium on brevity. While it hopefully covers the more important leadership topics, it also leaves out others of necessity. Those we address, albeit briefly, contain references other resources where further information can be found...." See also the National Empowerment Center web site.  
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Mood Disorder Signaling Pathway Implicated in Schizophrenia
Reuters Health story at Medscape - "A signaling pathway linked to mood disorders may also play a role in schizophrenia, according to a report published in the January 25th online issue of Nature Genetics. Because it is a target for lithium, AKT1-GSK3beta signaling has been implicated in the pathogenesis of bipolar disorder. However, it was unclear if alterations in such pathways were also involved in other psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia." "med"  
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Medscape Psychiatry Journal Scan, December 2003
"Journal Scan 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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Medscape Journal Scan: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, December 2003
Articles at Medscape from the American Journal of Psychiatry, the British Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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