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• Nutrition expert to discuss obesity (TCU Daily Skiff)
  For students with mid-term papers, exams and projects piling up, it's easy to forget about a well-balanced diet. Students of all majors will get the chance today to listen to one of the leading doctors in eating disorders and behavioral science. Daniel Kirschenbaum, professor of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences at Northwestern University Medical School, will explain the details about ...
• Schizophrenia in Children: FAQs (ABC News)
  Families whose young children have severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, face a costly and emotional struggle. Families share the daily struggles, breakdowns and the overwhelming strain such illnesses place on relationships and finances. Schizophrenia - Mental disorder - Health - Mental Health - Disorders
• Man gets three years for molestation (Tribune Chronicle)
  WARREN - A defense attorney told a judge that the drugs his client was taking for a behavioral disorder caused him to have certain sexual impulses. But a prosecutor said corroborating evidence in the form of a confession by 20-year-old Nelson Wyer amounted to a mandatory prison sentence.
• Concocting a Cure for Kids With Issues (New York Times)
  Through a controversial practice called vision therapy, some optometrists say they can treat learning disabilities.
• Wyoming receives $450,000 in CHIP funds (Casper Journal)
  Wyoming has been awarded a federal grant to help improve healthcare quality and delivery systems for children with serious behavioral health disorders who are enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
• Penn researcher, Louis J. Soslowsky, PhD, winner of the AAOS Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award (EurekAlert!)
  ( University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ) Louis J. Soslowsky, Ph.D. Fairhill professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and professor of Bioengineering, director of the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory and Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was named the 2010 winner of the Ann Doner Vaughan Kappa Delta Award by the American Academy ...
• Women guilty of feeling too guilty, study shows (MSNBC)
  Men are guilt-deficient, while women suffer from destructive guilt largely imposed by society, suggests a recent Spanish study.
• Should schools use seclusion rooms, restraints for difficult kids? (The Capital Times)
  By age 2 Donovan Richards was kicked out of day care for hitting. At age 3, he was obsessed with dinosaurs and utterly uninterested in other children. At 4, he was hospitalized for mania after he threatened to kill himself with his toy sword. And by 5, he was on medicine for bipolar and autism spectrum disorders. One doctor told Paula Buege her son would end up in an institution. Buege vowed to ...
• One-Page Questionnaire Is Effective Screening Tool For Common Psychiatric Disorders (Medical News Today)
  A one-page, 27-item questionnaire that is available free online is a valid and effective tool to help primary care doctors screen patients for four common psychiatric illnesses, a study led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers concludes. Results of the My Mood Monitor (M-3) checklist study are published in the March/April 2010 issue of Annals of Family Medicine...
• Novel program translates behavioral and social science research into treatments to reduce obesity (EurekAlert!)
  ( Rush University Medical Center ) Under a $7.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Rush University Medical Center is developing a novel program, called WISHFIT, to help pre-menopausal women reduce visceral fat through a sustained increase in physical activity and reduction in stress. The program will be designed by both Rush researchers and women in two Southside Chicago ...

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