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MENTAL HEALTH

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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.

• Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care, From the New England Journal of Medicine, July 1, 2004
• The Iraq War Clinician Guide, 2nd Edition, From the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Hidden Scars of Battle: A new study shows that 1 in 6 Iraq veterans has psychological damage and the toll could get worse, From Time Magazine, July 12, 2004
• Soldiers Taught To Exercise Injured Brains, From InteliHealth, July 12, 2004
• Coping with the Stress of War, From NBC Nightly News, July 13, 2004
• Moussaoui's Mental Health May Be an Issue, From the New York Times, July 7, 2004
• Older Women, Too, Struggle With a Dangerous Secret, From the New York Times, July 6, 2004
• All in the Head: Three Approaches to Mental Health Treatment That Stretch the Boundaries -- and, Sometimes, Credulity, From the Washington Post, June 29, 2004
• Reading Therapy Helps Victims of Alexia, From ABCNEWS.com, July 6, 2004
• Report: Jails warehouse mentally ill kids, From CNN.com, July 7, 2004
• Getting Better ... Virtually: In the World of Virtual Therapy, the Therapist's Couch Is Made of Pixels, From ABCNEWS.com, July 7, 2004
• Prisons are clogged with too many mentally ill, From Newday.com, July 4, 2004
• With Toughness and Caring, a Novel Therapy Helps Tortured Souls, From the New York Times, July 13, 2004
• When the Brain Says,"Don't Get Too Close', From the New York Times, July 13, 2004
• Teresa, Interrupted, From the Boston Globe Magazine, Sunday, July 18, 2004
• Office Messes From the New York Times Magazine, Sunday, July 18, 2004
• Texas Mental Health Plan Could Omit Thousands, From All Things Considered, July 20, 2004
• Doctor: Alzheimer's battle is lifelong, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 17, 2004
• Patients tell what it's like to have Alzheimer's, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 18, 2004
• Maintain Your Brain Research: Healthy Diet Can Help Stave Off AlzheimerÕs Disease, From ABC News, July 20, 2004
• Studies link heart health to better memory function, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 2004
• Study of Antidepressants Finds Little Disparity in Suicide Risk, From the New York Times, July 21, 2004
• Curing Casanova, From the New York Times, July 18, 2004
• A Protest State of Mind, From Online Metroland, July 13, 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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