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Study Documents Rise in Benzodiazepine Use, Overdose Deaths 
Psychiatric News (5 days ago) - Between 1996 and 2013, the rate of overdose deaths related to use of benzodiazepines rose from 0.58 per 1,000 adults to 3.07 per 1,000 adults, according to a report in... -
Attention-Bias Modification May Benefit Adolescents With MDD Psychiatric News (6 days ago) - Adolescents with major depressive disorder who performed a computer-based task designed to shift their attention from negative to positive stimuli over the course of several weeks showed greater reductions in... - Neuroscience can help you live a healthier life
Harvard Mental Health Blog (6 days ago) - Even when we’re determined to make healthy changes for the better, our brains can sometimes undermine us. But there are three things we can do — namely, decreasing stress, making... -
Young Transgender Children With Family Support Show No Rise in Depression Psychiatric News (Friday, 26 February) - Young children who identify as transgender and are supported by their families are no more likely to have symptoms of depression and only marginally elevated levels of anxiety than nontransgender... - Psychological Shark Jumping? Mindfulness Linked To Better Blood Sugar Levels
Science 2.0 (Friday, 26 February) - Dispositional, or “everyday” mindfulness, is being aware of one’s present thoughts and feelings and a new paper measured health indicators of 399 people, including dispositional mindfulness and blood glucose, and... -
Study Suggests People With Psychiatric Illness Tend to Partner With Each Other Psychiatric News (Thursday, 25 February) - Understanding how psychiatric illness is transmitted across families and generations holds tremendous importance for both identifying and treating people who may develop a mental disorder, while also helping to understand... -
What’s fair? Little kids and adults disagree 
Society & Culture - Futurity (Wednesday, 24 February) - Young kids think it's fair to punish everybody, even when only one child does something wrong. But that attitude fades when they get to elementary school.... -
Benefits of Taking Antidepressants During Pregnancy Outweigh Risks, Expert Says Psychiatric News (Wednesday, 24 February) - As conflicting studies about the risk of birth defects in offspring of women who use antidepressants during pregnancy continue to be published, some experts say it is important to compare...
