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November 5, 2006

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Improve your mood with these foods
MSNBC
Feeling grumpy? Nutritionist Joy Bauer offers some simple strategies on what and when to eat to help you feel better.

Am I Normal?
Psychology Today T
A more organic take on human nature is emerging.

Election 2006: Town Ward profile
myKawartha.com
The 23 year old split his time between Peterborough and Toronto, couch-surfing at night and panhandling by day. Then, he learned he was bipolar, a form of depression that causes extreme mood swings. He received some treatment and is now working at a tire repair shop in Campbellford.

Key Brain Reward Region Not Activated By Positive Emotional Stimuli in Depression
Newswise
Brain imaging researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have demonstrated dysfunction in a key brain region in major depression. Major depression, a mood disorder affecting millions of people, causes tremendous suffering with a large impact on public health. Brain imaging has recently produced significant advances concerning brain circuitry in major depression, mostly focusing upon negative

Fantasist killed stranger in park
BBC News
A man who harboured homicidal feelings is convicted of murdering a 21-year old with learning difficulties.

Antidepressants Linked To Lower Child Suicide Rates
Science Daily
UIC researchers report an inverse relationship between antidepressant prescriptions and the rates of suicide in children and adolescents, a finding that contradicts the Food and Drug Administration's "black box" warning for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications, also known as SSRI drugs.

Predicting PET Imaging's Future: Diagnosing And Treating Diseases ASAP
Science Daily
Imagine a new world of detecting and diagnosing diseases sooner -- even before any symptoms are present. Consider the possibility of receiving individualized, targeted molecular, cellular or genetic medical treatment as soon as possible and of undergoing scanning that can quickly tell your doctor whether your treatment is working. Continued advances in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging

Man jailed over tourist slashing
BBC News
A Portrush man who stabbed a German tourist with a potato peeler while high on glue is jailed.

Fantasist killer given 20 years
BBC News
A man gets life for a "frenzied" knife attack on a man with learning difficulties, described as a "harmless soul".

Transsexual expert 'put patients at risk'
Guardian Unlimited
UK: Gender psychiatrist gave patients sex-change treatments without sufficient evidence, inquiry told.

Ex-private indicted in Iraqi family's deaths
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - Steven D. Green, the former Army private arrested in the March rape and slaying of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl while he was on duty south of Baghdad, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on 17 counts of murder, sexual assault and obstruction. Twelve of the charges carry the death penalty.

Proteins May Predict Lung Transplant Rejection
Science Daily
Researchers have identified three proteins that appear to be highly predictive of chronic lung rejection up to 20 months before the rejection occurred. Lung transplants are a common therapy for many end-stage lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension. If doctors can predict which patients are beginning to reject the transplanted organ,

Inventive clinic finds ways to fill mental health gap in Medicaid
The Salt Lake Tribune
PROVO - In fall 2004, 4,000 Utahns battling mental illness were turned away by the state's public mental health clinics. A shift in Medicaid policy meant they were no longer eligible for government assistance. Uninsured, they couldn't afford medications and had nowhere to turn for counseling. Some threatened suicide. Others lost jobs. At least one or two became homeless.

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