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View Original Article Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Women who commit sexual offences are just as likely to have mental problems or drug addictions as other violent female criminals. This according to the largest study ever conducted of women convicted of sexual offences in Sweden. Between 1988 and 2000, 93 women and 8,500 men were convicted of sexual offences in Sweden. Given that previous research has focused on male perpetrators, knowledge of the factors specific to female sex offenders has been scant.

View Original Article Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT
While 30 to 50 percent of people with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome are also affected with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), both illnesses have a distinct neurocognitive profile, according to a new study published in the print edition of the journal Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry by researchers from the Université de Montréal and the Fernand-Seguin Research Centre of the Louis-H Lafontaine Hospital.

View Original Article Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H. Res. 1134 today, a resolution introduced by Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-Norwalk) recognizing May as Mental Health Month. "An estimated 57 million Americans suffer from diagnosable, treatable mental illnesses," noted Rep. Napolitano. "This number is growing because of the epidemic of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among veterans returning from Iraq." "Only one in three Americans suffering from mental illness receives treatment.

View Original Article Thu, 15 May 2008 01:00:00 PDT
On Monday morning, money saving expert Martin Lewis helped mental health charity Mind to launch their new campaign on debt and mental health at Canary Wharf. Consumer champion Martin is the presenter of the Channel Five programme 'It pays to watch' and founder of the website http://www.moneysavingexpert.com.

View Original Article Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The post-university years can start out tough. The good news: it gets better.A new University of Alberta study of almost 600 of its graduates (ages 20-29 years old) tracked mental health symptoms in participants for seven years post-graduation and looked at how key events like leaving home and becoming a parent were related to depression and anger. Graduates showed a significant decrease in depressive symptoms over the seven years.