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Serendip's mental health resource lists are intended to provide access to web materials which we believe are of continuing usefulness in discussions of mental health issues. This "News" section is aimed at helping people be aware of possible "growing points" relevant to mental health discussions, news reports which offer what may become important new perspectives on mental health, relating either to mental health itself or to related social, political, and economic phenomena that impact on it.

• Fighting Pain With Pain, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 2004
• Where Justice and Mercy Meet, From the Village Voice, August 3, 2004
The Cutting Edge: A Newsletter for People Living With Self-Inflicted Violence, A Book Review From The Permanente Journal, Spring 2004 Psychiatric Survivors Movement Mourns Loren Mosher, From MindFreedom International News, July 12, 2004
• N.H. State Prisoners Inmates Sue for Better Mental Health Care, From Foster's Online, July 27, 2004
• Depression Linked to Overactive Brain Circuit, News Release From NIMH, August 3, 2004
Flu during pregnancy linked to adult schizophrenia, From USA Today, August 3, 2004
• Brain Device Offers Hope for Some Brain Disorders, From the Boston Globe August 4, 2004
• Lobotomy: Looking back in anger, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 2004
• Relics of a time lobotomy was thought a 'godsend, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 2004
• A Princess's Distress Pierces Japan's Veil of Secrecy, From the New York Times, August 7, 2004
• Clue Found to Cognitive Problems in Preemie Boys, From NPRÕs Morning Edition, August 9, 2004
• Survey: Soldiers Suffer Stress Disorder, From the New York Times, August 10, 2004
• Group Therapy Not Always Best Choice for Men, From Reuters Know.Now, August 11, 2004
• Parents of mentally ill children face dilemma, From the Salt Lake Tribune, August 8, 2004
• Utah Man Charged in WifeÕs Murder, From CBS News, August 10, 2004
• Anyone You Know?, From the Washington Post, August 10, 2004
• FDA approves new antidepressant, From CNN, August 4, 2004
• Sorting through dyslexia, From USA Today, August 8, 2004
• Fluoxetine, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and Their Combination for Adolescents With Depression, From the Journal of the American Medical Association, August 18, 2004
• FDA Study Links Antidepressants, Teen Suicide, From All Things Considered, August 20, 2004
• Antidepressant Study Seen to Back Expert, From the New York Times, August 20, 2004
• Suicide risk spikes early in treatment, study verifies, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 16, 2004
• FDA Rejects Implanted Device for Depression, From WebMD Health, August 12, 2004
• Did Antidepressants Depress Japan?, From the New York Times Magazine, August 22, 2004
• Dr. Kubler-Ross, Who Changed Perspectives on Death, Dies at 78, From the New York Times, August 25, 2004
• Boy's Murder Case Entangled in Fight Over Antidepressants, From the New York Times, August 23, 2004
• Compulsive hoarding: Not all obsessive compulsive disorders are created the same, From US News and World Report, August 31, 2004
• In depression treatment, telephone could be a help, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 30, 2004
• Psychotic mice used to study disease, From CNN, August 31, 2004

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These resource lists are being maintained by Debbie Plotnick, working with Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, and James Martin, School of Social Work and Social Research, at Bryn Mawr College. Suggestions for additions to the list are welcome, as are more general thoughts about how to most effectively make available information, and promote conversation, about issues of mental health. Contact dplotnic@brynmawr.edu - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu - jmartin@brynmawr.edu.


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