http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nimh/ en-us Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:43:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993499/posts Scientists trying to link schizophrenia to a few, common genetic mutations may be missing an important cause of the disease. New research suggests that rare mutations--sometimes so infrequent that they occur in just a single family or individual--can significantly boost schizophrenia risk. Researchers suspect that these variants will prove to have effects on key aspects of brain development. Schizophrenia afflicts about 1% of the overall population, but a much higher proportion of homeless people and prison inmates. The disease has a strong heritable component, but researchers have struggled to find the genetic culprits. The working hypothesis has been that the... ScienceNOW Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993499/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:43:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1912653/posts How schizophrenia develops: Major clues discovered Findings may lead to better medications to correct gene-related problem Schizophrenia may occur, in part, because of a problem in an intermittent on/off switch for a gene involved in making a key chemical messenger in the brain, scientists have found in a study of human brain tissue. The researchers found that the gene is turned on at increasingly high rates during normal development of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain involved in higher functions like thinking and decision-making – but that this normal increase may not occur in people with schizophrenia. The... Nat'l Institute of Mental ealth http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1912653/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:50:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705335/posts In the hour before he was killed, on Sunday, Sept. 3, Dr. Wayne S. Fenton, a prominent schizophrenia specialist, was helping his wife clear the gutters of their suburban Washington house. He was steadying the ladder, asking her to please stop showering debris on his clean shirt; he had just made an appointment to see a patient and wanted to look presentable. She said she would be happy to go along, to help control the patient. It was a running joke between them. For in this part of the country, Dr. Fenton was the therapist of last resort, the one... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705335/posts#comment Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:28:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606320/posts A large-scale study of brain development pinpoints the anatomical changes that are linked to IQ.The brains of more intelligent children appear to develop in a characteristic way, growing quickly over an extended period between the ages of 5 and 12. These findings -- some of the most detailed research on brain development and IQ -- resulted from a 15-year study done by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH.) The study, which used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to gain a detailed picture of how the brains of children change over time, found that in kids who did better on standard... Technology Review (MIT) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606320/posts#comment Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:04:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550534/posts "In Aug., 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million tax-payer funded study.  It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed.  Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives, in particular, suffer from 'mental rigidity,' 'dogmatism,' and 'uncertainty avoidance,' together with associated indicators for mental illness."  (B.K. Eakman, Chronicles, Oct. 2004, pp. 28-29)   As usual with leftists, the true meaning of their words is couched in deceptive code.  When the deceptions are peeled away we discover that ''dogmatism''... Chronwatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550534/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:01:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462949/posts LOS ANGELES — A new study by Harvard University and the National Institute of Mental Health (search) claims that 46 percent of all Americans will, at some point in their lives, develop a mental disorder. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462949/posts#comment Sun, 14 Aug 2005 02:19:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247918/posts My husband and I were outraged when we read an Associated Press story in the Sept. 11 Register saying that dangerous, highly addictive stimulant drugs, such as Ritalin, have been OK'd by the Food and Drug Administration's Pediatric Committee and will be given to physically normal, healthy children as part of a brain study meant to lead to a definitive diagnosis for ADHD. In the study, led by Dr. Judith Rapoport, "MRIs would be used to reveal if the brains of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder respond to stimulants in fundamentally different ways than children who are physically normal," a... OC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247918/posts#comment Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:20:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084077/posts He is blond and 3 years old, 33 pounds of compressed energy wrapped in OshKosh overalls. In an evaluation room at Yale's Child Study Center, he ignores Big Bird, pauses to watch the bubbles that a social worker blows through a wand, jumps up and down. But it is the two-way mirror that fascinates him, drawing him back to stare into the glass, to touch it, to lick it with his tongue. At 17 months, after several ear infections and a bout of the flu, the toddler's budding language skills began to deteriorate, his parents tell the evaluators. In the... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084077/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2004 03:15:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067641/posts Makers of popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor have refused to disclose the details of most clinical trials involving depressed children, denying doctors and parents crucial evidence as they weigh fresh fears that such medicines may cause some children to become suicidal. The companies say the studies are trade secrets. Researchers familiar with the unpublished data said the majority of secret trials show that children taking the medicines did not get any better than children taking dummy pills. Although the drug industry's practice of suppressing data unfavorable to its products is legal, doctors and advocates say such secrecy... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067641/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:43:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067321/posts Makers of popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor have refused to disclose the details of most clinical trials involving depressed children, denying doctors and parents crucial evidence as they weigh fresh fears that such medicines may cause some children to become suicidal. The companies say the studies are trade secrets. Researchers familiar with the unpublished data said the majority of secret trials show that children taking the medicines did not get any better than children taking dummy pills. Although the drug industry's practice of suppressing data unfavorable to its products is legal, doctors and advocates say such secrecy... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067321/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:48:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066563/posts Sudden heart-pounding panic attacks are most likely caused by abnormalities in the brain, new evidence suggests, reinforcing earlier research on animals. People with panic disorder, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health, have drastic reductions of a type of serotonin receptor, called 5-HT1A, in three areas of the brain. The findings, reported last week in The Journal of Neuroscience, lend credence to the suspicion that serotonin dysfunction plays a role in the disorder. "This provides evidence for what we've been telling patients all along," said Dr. Dennis S. Charney, chief of the mood and anxiety disorders research program... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066563/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2004 05:42:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/957021/posts Congressional investigators call for a new look at funding academic research. An academic study of conservatism that lumped together Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Ronald Reagan, and Rush Limbaugh was funded by federal grants, according to congressional investigators.The study, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," was written by John T. Jost, a professor at Stanford University, Jack Glaser and Frank J. Sulloway, professors at the University of California, Berkeley, and Arie W. Kruglanski, a professor at the University of Maryland. It was published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.Congressional investigators have found that the study was financed by $1.2 million... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/957021/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:46:49 GMT