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A recent meeting by The Autism Consortium gave scientists, clinicians, advocates and parents an opportunity to share the latest information on causes of autism and their implications for diagnosis, prognosis and therapies.

The symposium’s scope and attendance doubled this year, with an …

New research suggests elders over age 85 benefit when relatives keep them updated about important family matters.

Scientists from the University of Michigan and Kyungpook National University looked at how stress and depression affected elders over age 85.

Changes in positive life …

People who become ill from harmless smells are not being silly, says a researcher. Rather, they perceive these smells differently than other people. The smell is detected more rapidly by the brain and processed more deeply. If you expect to become ill from a smell, then the smell in question might really make you ill.

Mental Health America grieves at the loss of life at Fort Hood and expresses its deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the victims. Our thoughts are with the men and women who proudly serve in our nation’s armed forces and the families who support them. We have many questions about the specific circumstances underlying the tragedy at Fort Hood that will help guide us in deciding how best to assure that this doesn’t happen again.

With a range of government policy documents addressing wellbeing, it has become a major point of discussion and a driver for service redesign across the mental health sector. The problem is that the “wellbeing agenda” is full of buzzwords and hype. Mind’s national and service users’ conferences in Brighton are offering you the opportunity to get beyond the buzzwords and look at how we can proceed with the wellbeing agenda.

The American Psychiatric Association is calling for concurrent passage of H.R. 3962 (the Affordable Health Care for America Act) and H.R. 3961 (the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009), which together provide the best opportunity for comprehensive healthcare reform. “Taken together, H.R. 3961 and H.R.

Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), based in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry.

Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Health experts say the increase has made issues of immigrant and refugee violence and the need for effective intervention strategies more apparent.

New research provides a comprehensive comparative functional anatomy study in human and monkey brains which reveals highly similar brain networks preserved across evolution. Scientists examined patterns of connectivity to show that the precuneus, long thought to be a single structure, is actually divided into four distinct functional regions.

Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a new study. The researchers found structural changes in the brains of former South Vietnamese political detainees who had suffered head injuries and clearly linked those changes to psychiatric symptoms often seen in survivors of torture.