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MARIETTA - A levy to fund children's mental health services in Washington County failed at the polls Tuesday for the second time in eight months, but it will be going back before voters."There's no qu...

MARIETTA - A levy to fund children's mental health services in Washington County failed at the polls Tuesday for the second time in eight months, but it will be going back before voters."There's no qu...

The British Psychological Society welcomes the amendments to the 1983 Mental health Act that came into force on 3 November 2008. Suitably competent chartered psychologists and other professionals are now able to become Approved Clinicians and have responsibility for patient care and team leadership.

0 posts There are few studies comparing the efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) and pharmacotherapy in major depressive disorder. A group of finnish investigators conducted a com...

Corey Carter, 22, waits for a haircut Tuesday along with, from left, Furious Hoskins, 3, Darryl Jones Jr., 11, and Trevon Latchinson, 8. Jones’ father, who co-owns the barbershop, learned by tex...

Hurricane season's not over yet.Here's a reminder: Storm specialists at the National Hurricane Center say a tropical depression is close to forming in the Southwestern Caribbean near Honduras and Nica...

A new report discovers children ages 3 to 5 with a parent deployed to a war zone appear to exhibit more behavior problems than their peers whose parents are not deployed. More than 2 million U.S. children have had parents deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan during the wars there, according to background information in [...]

In a new study, a team of researchers discover Spanish-speaking Hispanics take longer to respond to medication for depression and are less likely to go into remission than English-speaking Hispanics. Scientist from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) report their findings in November’s Psychiatric Services journal. Using data [...]

Adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following three years as their peers who watch few such shows. The investigation is the first to establish a link between teenagers’ exposure to sexual content on TV [...]

A new study finds that people with Alzheimer’s disease who also have diabetes or high blood pressure may die sooner than people without such disorders. Researchers studied 323 people who had no memory problems when first tested but later developed dementia. Memory tests and physical exams were then given every 18 months. The study [...]