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Importance of Managing Anxiety Disorders

WEBAnxiety disorders in adults and youth can negatively impact familial, social, physical, and economic domains, as they lead to significant functional impairment and poor quality of life and serve as risk factors for other physical and mental health conditions. Anxiety disorders are the most common class of psychiatric conditions, with estimates of …

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Breathing Practices for Treatment of Psychiatric and Stress-Related

WEBNeurophysiological studies may explain how breathing techniques normalize stress response, emotion regulation, and autonomic and neuroendocrine system function. Breath practices have been shown to reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety, insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, mass disasters, depression, and attention deficit disorder. Technology …

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Sleep and Women’s Mental Health

WEBWomen have increased risks for both sleep disturbances and disorders and for mental health issues throughout their lives, starting in adolescence. Women have a higher prevalence of insomnia disorder and restless legs syndrome (RLS) versus men, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is more likely as women age. Hormonal transitions are …

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An Overview of Research on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

WEBThis review summarized recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses on randomized controlled trials evaluating acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Although the strength of evidence varies, overall there is plausible evidence for the efficacy of ACT for a wide range of areas including depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive …

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Women's mental health

WEBWell over a decade has passed since an issue of the Psychiatric Clinics of North America was devoted to women's mental health. The field has grown and developed during those years, as women's health has assumed a position of increasing importance in our national health agenda. There are currently women's health offices in the US Department of …

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The Role of the National Institute of Mental Health in Promoting

WEBThe mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure. This mission can only be realized if full participation in the research enterprise is open to all. Nevertheless, systemic racism and …

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Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Anxiety and Depression

WEBThis article reviews the ways in which mindfulness practices have contributed to cognitive and behavioral treatments for depression and anxiety. Research on mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) has increased rapidly in the past decade. The most common include mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive …

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Examining Associations Between Women’s Mental Health and …

WEBObesity is a common comorbidity associated with mental illness. It is important to understand the many ways weight gain and obesity can impact the cause and course of mental illness in women, with a special focus on vulnerable life stages. Women seem disproportionally impacted by the weight gain side effects of medications, and …

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Anxiety …

WEBAcceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a modern form of cognitive behavioral therapy based on a distinct philosophy and basic science of cognition. This article reviews the core features of ACT’s theoretic model of psychopathology and treatment and its therapeutic approach. It provides a systematic review of randomized controlled trials …

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RESEARCH ON DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY FOR PATIENTS …

WEBDialectical behavior therapy (DBT),29,30 is a cognitive–behavioral treatment approach originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals. DBT has subsequently evolved into treatment for suicidal individuals who meet criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) and has been adapted for the treatment of patients with BPD with presenting …

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Immunity, Aging, and Geriatric Depression

WEBInflammatory processes are likely to play a causal role in geriatric depression. Geriatric depression occurs in the context of illnesses in which inflammatory processes are part of the pathogenesis. Both aging and depression are associated with immune responses, and the connectivity among mood-regulating structures may be modulated by inflammatory …

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Reproductive Rights and Women’s Mental Health

WEBReproductive rights, including access to comprehensive reproductive health care, are essential to the well-being of women and society. The Dobbs decision of the US Supreme Court has greatly exacerbated the confusion, the stress, and the loss of services. Psychiatrists need to know and communicate the strong scientific evidence of the …

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Examining Associations Between Women's Mental Health and …

WEBObesity is a common comorbidity associated with mental illness. Women seem dis-proportionally impacted by the weight gain side effects of medications, and issues such as weight gain are more likely to impact symptoms of mental illness, impacting self-esteem. Women are also overrepresented in illnesses such as binge eating.

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Spectrum concepts in major mental disorders

WEBThe practice of medicine involves a great heterogeneity of clinical presentations, and the clinicians' art rests on the ability to see core manifestations of a given disorder beyond these varied presentations. The prototypes described in textbooks are actually rare, and the modal presentation is atypicality. In this sense, the atypical is the norm. Physicians in …

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Achieving Mental Health and Peak Performance in Elite Athletes

WEBMany factors place athletes at increased risk of compromised performance, including mental health symptoms and disorders. Mental health disorders are common among athletes and if untreated may impair outcomes. Cultural influences including social media, negative attitudes about help seeking mental help, and stereotyping, when not …

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Nutrition, Eating Disorders, and Behavior in Athletes

WEBAbout 40% to 42% of women in aesthetic sports and 30% to 35% of women in weight class sports have eating disorders. For male athletes, about 17% to 18% in weight class and 22% to 42% in gravitational sports have eating disorders. In addition to sociocultural pressures to achieve and maintain the ideal body type, athletes are also under pressure

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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Key Decisions in Acute Management

WEBThe definition of a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) has come under close scrutiny and is changing as a result of refined diagnostic testing. Although up to 15% of patients with a mild TBI will have an acute intracranial lesion identified on head computed tomography (CT), less than 1% of these patients will have a lesion requiring a neurosurgical intervention. …

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Impact of Modeling on Adolescent Suicidal Behavior

WEBThe evidence to date suggests that suicide modeling is a real phenomenon, although of a smaller effect size than other psychiatric and psychosocial risk factors for adolescent suicide. Multiple lines of inquiry provide converging evidence, including studies on suicide clusters, media influence on suicide (particularly coverage of nonfictional suicides), and …

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Medical Complications of Binge Eating Disorder

WEBBinge eating disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder and is accompanied by multiple medical comorbidities, many of which are associated with obesity-related diseases. However, the BED itself is likely to confer additional risk factors. BED presents with medical symptoms in virtually every body system and can have devastating consequences on …

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MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN TRADITIONAL INDIA AND CHINA

WEBA basic premise of international systems of diagnosis is that mental illness and health as these have come to be understood in Western societies constitute human universals. A question of central importance is the extent to which the doctrine of cultural relativism applies to their formulation. A tension between universalism and cultural …

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Substance Use and Its Impact on Athlete Health and Performance

WEBSubstance use has occurred through the ages to enhance performance, manage pain, and accelerate recovery. Doping is the use of a banned substance to improve athletic performance and is not restricted to elite athletes. Performance-enhancing substances can be illicit drugs or prescription medications or found in a variety of over-the-counter

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