http://behavecoach.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:33:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Title:District 7 Residents Invited to Chat with Vice Mayor Nowakowski Release Date: 3/18/10 3:52 PM Author: City of Phoenix, Arizona Category: phoenix.gov local news Description: District 7 Residents Invited to Chat with Vice Mayor Nowakowski Web Location http://behavecoach.com/behavioral-coach/behavioral-coach/district-7-residents-invited-to-chat-with-vice-mayor-nowakowski-2/ Title:Foundation and Councilman Michael Johnson Sponsor First Annual Race for Haiti Release Date: 3/18/10 11:14 AM Author: City of Phoenix, Arizona Category: phoenix.gov local news Description: Foundation and Councilman Michael Johnson Sponsor First Annual Race for Haiti Web Location http://behavecoach.com/behavioral-coach/behavioral-coach/foundation-and-councilman-michael-johnson-sponsor-first-annual-race-for-haiti/ Title:Heart-healthy Workshop on Blood Pressure Treatment Options Release Date: 3/18/10 11:55 AM Author: City of Phoenix, Arizona Category: phoenix.gov local news Description: Heart-healthy Workshop on Blood Pressure Treatment Options Web Location http://behavecoach.com/behavioral-coach/behavioral-coach/heart-healthy-workshop-on-blood-pressure-treatment-options/ Researchers, for the first time, have pinpointed a genetic hotspot that confers risk for both bipolar disorder and depression. People with either of these mood disorders were significantly more likely to have risk versions of genes at this site than healthy controls. One of the genes, which codes for part ... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2010/same-genes-suspected-in-both-depression-and-bipolar-illness.shtml?WT.mc_id=rss NIMH is launching a long-term project aimed at ultimately improving treatment and prevention by studying classification of mental illness, based on genetics and neuroscience in addition to clinical observation. The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project is not intended to replace psychiatry’s existing diagnostic system for practitioners and will proceed in ... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2010/genes-and-circuitry-not-just-clinical-observation-to-guide-classification-for-research.shtml?WT.mc_id=rss A study has linked panic disorder to a wayward hormone in a brain circuit that regulates vigilance. While too little of the hormone, called orexin, is known to underlie narcolepsy, the new study suggests that too much of it may lead to panic attacks that afflict 6 million American ... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/runaway-vigilance-hormone-linked-to-panic-attacks.shtml?WT.mc_id=rss Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging evidence from animal studies that reactivating an emotional memory opens a 6-hour window of ... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/non-invasive-technique-blocks-a-conditioned-fear-in-humans.shtml?WT.mc_id=rss Researchers studying autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will soon have access to a vast range of data and research tools through the NIH National Database for Autism Research (NDAR). http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/major-databases-link-up-to-advance-autism-research.shtml?WT.mc_id=rss For the first time, inherited disruption of gene expression in a brain system for social behavior has been implicated in autism. NIMH grantee Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., at the University of Miami and Simon Gregory, Ph.D., at Duke University, and a multinational team of researchers found evidence for such epigenetic effects ... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/silenced-gene-for-social-behavior-found-in-autism.shtml?WT.mc_id=rss Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study, which was part of the NIMH Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism ... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/parent-training-complements-medication-for-treating-behavioral-problems-in-children-with-pervasive-developmental-disorders.shtml?WT.mc_id=rss