How Can We Help Teen Mothers Avoid and Cope With Postpartum Depression?
Although there is a fair amount of information and research available on postpartum depression in general, very little of it seems to focus specifically on the needs or care of teen mothers.
A pilot study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in March attempts to fill in this gap — and it shows some promising results.
First, the authors explain why the risks of PPD in teens are important:
PPD puts adolescent mothers and their children at risk during an already challenging time in their lives, and this hardship may be a major determinant of poor outcomes for these young mothers and their child...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - April 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Rachel Tags: Pregnancy & Childbirth Research & Studies Youth Source Type: blogs
Nature, Nurture, and Me
Which came first, the addiction or the trauma?
About a year ago, Jonathan Taylor, a professor at California State University in Fullerton, assigned his students some reading from my book, The Chemical Carousel, for his “Drugs, Politics, and Cultural Change” course. At the same time, the class watched an interview with Dr. Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. In a letter written for his readers, Dr. Mate´ insists that addiction “is very close to the core of the human experience. That is why almost anything can become addictive, from seemingly healthy activities suc...
Source: Addiction Inbox - April 25, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Investigating the love lives of the men and women who have no sense of smell
Around 1 in 7,500 otherwise healthy people are born with no sense of smell, a condition known as isolated congenital anosmia (ICA). So dominant are sight and hearing to our lives, you might think this lack of smell would be fairly inconsequential. In fact, a study of individuals with ICA published last year showed just how important smell is to humans. Compared with controls, the people with ICA were more insecure in their relationships, more prone to depression and to household accidents.
Now, in a follow-up paper involving the same 32 patients with ICA, Ilona Croy and her colleagues have looked at how this lack of ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
How much easier is it doing a second IVF cycle after you have had one IVF baby ?
This is a guest post from an expert patient whom I respect.
I asked her - How much easier is it doing a second IVF cycle after you have had one IVF baby ?
This is her reply.
Before I answer that question, I feel like I need to tell you about my infertility story. I went through many infertility test and procedures, including 3 IUI and 6 IVF cycles, before accepting that most likely my eggs would never be of good enough quality to result in a healthy baby. Coming to this conclusion was a process of elimination. I always responded well to the medication, and produced a good number of eggs and embryos fo...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - April 3, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Health In vitro fertilisation India Reproductive Health Pregnancy Embryo Mumbai Infertility Source Type: blogs
Journal Alert: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
We examined the
> validity of the ECERS-R using the multidimensional Rasch partial credit
> model (PCM), factor analyses, and regression analyses with data from the
> Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort. The PCM identified
> rating category disordering, indicating previously unrecognized problems
> with the scale's response process validity. Factor analyses identified
> neither a single factor nor the ECERS-R six subscales, replicating prior
> research regarding the scale's structural validity. Criterion validity
> results were mixed, with small effect sizes for regressions predi...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - February 14, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
Announcing the 1st Annual Psych Central Conference
I’m pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 1st Annual Psych Central Conference — a meeting designed to bring together people with a passion for mental health, psychology, self-help and relationship topics. This is a conference for ordinary folks who are interested in these kinds of topics, and who love reading them on Psych Central.
Years in the making, we’re taking the conference plunge because I felt it was time to feature all the great writers, bloggers, therapists and contributors to Psych Central — and elsewhere online and in real life.
It’s an opportunity to learn ho...
Source: World of Psychology - January 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Conferences General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Psychology Adhd Answering Questions Borchard Candida Dozen Speakers Elisha Family Heart Fink Goldstein Great Writers Hanks Hartwell Health Psycholo Source Type: blogs
Journal Alert - JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
Conclusions: The genetic risks implicated in ADHD generally
> tend to have small effect sizes or be rare and often increase risk of
> many other types of psychopathology. Thus, they cannot be used for
> prediction, genetic testing or diagnostic purposes beyond what is
> predicted by a family history. There is a need to consider the
> possibility of parents and siblings being similarly affected and how
> this might impact on engagement with families, influence interventions
> and require integration with adult services. Genetic contributions to
> disorder do not necessarily mean that medications are ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - January 17, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
