Right now the Lost and Tired family is going through some pretty big changes and change isn’t always easy, especially with autistic family members. What’s even harder is trying to keep everyone feeling like everything is okay.
The murder of American Sniper author Chris Kyle has restarted a national conversation about PTSD and raised questions about whether the government is doing enough to identify and treat those suffering from the condition.
Veterans have been dying in disturbing large numbers as they wait for their disabilities claims to be processed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which claims a massive backlog is blocking progress.
Disability activist Rahul Cherian leaves a legacy of thinking about human rights as rights for the maximum enjoyment of life.
People with mental illness are 70 percent more likely to smoke cigarettes than people without mental illness, two federal health agencies recently reported.
Writer Kat Dawkins was diagnosed with bipolar I disorder in 2008, and authors the Psych Central blog “About Her Bipolar Life.” In her post Keeping Creativity Alive with Bipolar Disorder, she comments, “If you’re bipolar, chances are, you’re creative.
“I’ve always had a knack for the arts. I started writing stories as soon as I knew how to put words together. I love music and painting, and I majored in Creative Writing in college. I sing and play bass.”
To give domestic violence victims a chance to escape abusers who ignore restraining orders against them, judges in Orange and Osceloa counties will begin mandating the use of GPS-tracking devices in what they deem the highest-risk cases.
With 2 children on the spectrum, I have wondered often about whether or not there is something in my genes that I have passed on to my kids. My oldest daughter and my son have different mothers. It would be easy to think it must be something inherited from me. This past week, my youngest daughter finished her assessment by one of the top ASD specialists in the country and he concluded that she is not on the spectrum. His view was that she wasn’t even close.
Domestic violence is one of the most common forms of violence endured by women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that one-fourth of U.S women will endure an abusive relationship, while some 1,300 people are killed each year by intimate partners.
When you have a child with special needs, you have to accept and anticipate a lot of new realities.
U.S. soldiers in combat often suffer constricted blood vessels and increased pressure in the brain — significant complications of traumatic brain injuries, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2013.
Through a series of investigations in mice and humans, Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a protein that appears to be the target of both antidepressant drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Results of their experiments explain how these therapies likely work to relieve depression by stimulating stem cells in the brain to grow and mature. In addition, the researchers say, these experiments raise the possibility of predicting individual people’s response to depression therapy, and fine-tuning treatment accordingly.
In recent years, a few researchers have looked carefully at the different kinds of events that provoke a depressive episode. The evidence they have collected argues for a more nuanced understanding of how stress interacts with individual susceptibility to depression, how quickly depression follows different types of stress, and how best to treat depression in these various situations.
Preschoolers whose parents report depression and intimate partner violence may be more likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder by the age of 6, new research suggests.
The statistics weren’t comforting: In March 2012 the Centers for Disease Control estimated that one in 88 American children is somewhere on the autistic spectrum. We’re still not sure exactly what causes autism, and we’re not sure why the number of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has increased since the early 1990s. According to the National Academy of Sciences, it could be because people are more aware of autism spectrum disorders today; because pediatricians are doing more screening; and because there have been changes in how autism disorders have been defined and diagnosed. In other words, more children with milder symptoms are being identified as somewhere “on the spectrum,” where they wouldn’t have been in years before.