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This Week - July 6, 2003

1. Chat conference: Narcissism in the workplace
2. Genome survey finds depression genes
3. B-vitamin problems may cause depression
4. Surprise! Many bipolar patients should stay on antidepressants
5. When abuse stops, depression eases
6. Tonsils, AD/HD linked
7. The lure of data: is it addictive?
8. New hope for schizophrenia treatment
9. Smoking dope raises risk of psychosis
10. How children experience a parent's mental illness
11. Women marry men with similar drinking habits
12. My 50 year old father died suddenly. I'm having trouble coping.
13. Thought for today

Narcissism in the Workplace

Coping with a narcissistic boss, co-worker, supplier, colleague, partner, competitor, manager, or employee?

Join us Wed., July 9 when Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited" will be our chat conference guest.

The chat starts at 6p Pacific, 8 Central, 9 Eastern in "conference room-main." Sam will be taking your personal questions. Click here to visit his extensive Narcissism site and purchase his book.

Genome Survey Finds Depression Genes

Whole genome scan finds depression hotspots

A whole genome analysis has identified 19 specific regions very likely to contain genetic variations that raise the risk of a severe form of depression. The new study indicates that one of the "susceptibility loci", which contains a gene called CREB1, plays a particularly big role in the illness.

"We can't do better than this," says George Zubenko of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, who led the work. "This is the strongest statistical evidence for any susceptibility locus for any psychiatric disorder reported to date." The likelihood that the observed genetic linkage of recurrent depression to CREB1 resulted from chance is less than one in a billion, the researchers say.

Previous studies had implicated CREB1 in depression but the link in the new study was unusually strong, especially in women. The gene produces a protein that has a number of functions in the nervous system. Investigation of this and other loci will help identify new drug targets. Read more about the study here.

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Other depression stories:

• B-Vitamin Problems May Cause Depression
• Antidepressant Regimen Actually Aids Bipolar Disorder
• When Abuse Stops, Depression Eases

Tonsils, Attention Deficit Disorder Linked

In the end, it wasn't the drugs or the discipline, diet changes or any one of the more talked-about, argued-over treatments that really helped Alexander Rock calm down and pay attention.

It was a combination of several of those. And the tonsillectomy. Find out about what one doctor has uncovered.

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The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive?

Psychologists are beginning to study the impact that information overload is having on our lives

It's been dubbed Online Compulsive Disorder - where people always have to be surfing the net, constantly checking their mobile device for messages, email, etc. to keep from becoming bored.

Dr. Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist with an expertise in attention deficit disorder, is among a growing number of physicians and sociologists who are assessing how technology affects attention span, creativity and focus. Here's what they've discovered so far.

Schizophrenia Treatment Hope

People at risk of developing schizophrenia may soon be identified years before they develop any symptoms.

How is this possible? Find out here.

Smoking Dope Can Increase Risk of Mental Illness

Regular users of pot are at greater risk of developing mental illness later in life, according to research. One study found that the risk was seven times higher for heavy users, said professor Robin Murray of the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

The details are here.

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Hispanics vs Whites: Higher Levels Self-Reported Psychotic Symptoms

Prior research had shown African Americans had higher rates of schizophrenia and lower rates of depression that European Americans. It had been suggested that this findings might also be true for Hispanics. However, there was little information on the subject until this study.

Read more here.

• Check out our new section on Paranoid Schizophrenia
• More Schizophrenia stories linked from our Thought Disorders Community homepage

How Children Experience Parent's Mental Illness

Three new books provide important new perspectives on the experience of children of parents with mental illnesses in confronting challenges at different stages of life. Continued.

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Women Tend to Marry Men Whose Drinking Habits Match Their Own

Contrary to a longstanding notion, men do not generally influence their wives’ or partners’ drinking patterns, according to the latest findings in a longitudinal study of women and alcohol.

Instead, women tracked in the survey tended to marry men whose drinking habits mirrored their own, says Sharon Wilsnack, PhD, a psychologist at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Wilsnack is conducting the study with her husband, sociologist Richard Wilsnack, PhD.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which is funding the study, calls the Wilsnacks’ work the best study to date on women and alcohol. Most research on alcohol use has historically focused on men, NIAAA officials note.

Despite their findings about men’s lack of influence on their wives’ drinking, the Wilsnacks have found that women who work in male-dominated careers—such as construction or airline piloting—drink more than those who are teachers, nurses or librarians.

They also found in the most recent interviews that women who juggle several roles—such as wife, mother and employee—are less likely to have drinking problems than women who have fewer roles.

“That breaks an old myth, too,” Sharon Wilsnack says. “In the 1970s, there was a Rand Corporation survey that found the married women who worked outside the home had higher rates of drinking. We found the opposite pattern. Having too few roles, not too many, was a risk factor.”

Some of the survey’s findings can be found in the Wilsnacks’ new book, “Gender and Alcohol” (Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1997).

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Bulletin Board:
Missing Daddy

LilViper:

"My dad passed away at age 50, of a sudden massive heart attack on April 3, 2003. I have been having a hard time dealing with his death. I miss him so much. I don't know what to do. I don't know where to turn for help. Can someone help me?"

Can you help LilViper? Respond here.

Read: Loss and Grief - Grieving the Different Losses in Your Life

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Here's something to think about...

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

From all of us here at HealthyPlace.com, we hope you have a good week.

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