Borderline Personality News

February 7, 2007

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The Problem With Treating Spondylarthritis With Anti-TNF Strategies
Science Daily
Researchers tested the effectiveness of etanercept, an established TNF receptor, on animal models of arthritis. Their cast doubts on the feasibility of preventing joint and spine ankylosis with anti-TNF strategies while shedding light on the process of SpA.

Antipsychotic Drug Controls Some Symptoms In Autism Disorder
Science Daily
Risperidone, a drug used to control schizophrenia symptoms, may also help treat behaviors found in autism spectrum disorder, according to a new review of studies.

Second psychiatric evaluation ordered for woman
WCAX 3
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. -- A judge ordered a new psychiatric evaluation Wednesday for an arson suspect who claims multiple personality disorder and allegedly keeps journals to record...

Second mental evaluation ordered for arson suspect following outburst
WCAX
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. A judge ordered a new pyschiatric evaluation for a woman charged in two arson fires who claimed to have multiple personality...

Antipsychotic Drug Controls Some Symptoms In Autism Disorder
Science Daily
Risperidone, a drug used to control schizophrenia symptoms, may also help treat behaviors found in autism spectrum disorder, according to a new review of studies.

Serial conwoman jailed for two years
Gulf News
London: A serial conwoman who left a string of broken hearts in her wake and plundered the bank accounts of men she met through lonely hearts adverts was yesterday jailed for two years.

Psychiatric evaluation ordered for woman who claims multiple personality disorder
The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION -- A judge ordered a new psychiatric evaluation Wednesday for an arson suspect who claims multiple personality disorder and allegedly keeps journals to record the activities of her "alters." ... - By John Curran Associated Press

Jury Rules Hedge Must Remain In Mental Hospital
10 News San Diego
A convicted pedophile is a sexually violent predator and should remain at Atascadero State Hospital, where he can continue receiving treatment for his sexual disorders, a jury determines.

Autism May Not Be The Only Childhood Psychiatric Disorder On The Rise
Science Daily
The incidence of three childhood neuropsychiatric disorders, including autism, increased among Danish children between 1990 and 2004, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The findings suggest that recent upward trends in reported autism diagnoses may be part of a broader pattern in childhood mental illness.

Bad Axe couple pleads to charges in child abuse case
Huron Daily Tribune
BAD AXE - A tragic child abuse case involving an infant less than one month old came to an end with the parents of the boy who suffered life-threatening injuries in early February 2006 confessing to Huron County Circuit Court Judge M. Richard Knoblock Monday afternoon about their involvement.

NAMI offers free education for families of mentally ill
Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE - NAMI Family-to-Family education, a series of free classes for relatives and friends of an individual with a severe mental illness, will be offered at on 12 consecutive Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. beginning March 15 in Asheville.

Pressure on astronauts sometimes is too much, psychologists say
Orlando Sentinel
To be an astronaut, you have to be the best of the best.

Murderer's appeal is turned down
BBC News
A killer who beat a man to death fails to have his minimum prison term cut on appeal.

Astronauts' mental state not tested regularly
Chicago Tribune
NASA astronauts undergo a psychological assessment when they first join the space agency, but they'll face no further evaluations during their careers unless issues arise during their annual flight physicals, the space agency said Tuesday.

Son shoots parents, self, injures officer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
LAMAR, Texas - A mentally ill man shot and killed his elderly parents and sprayed gunfire on a sheriff's deputy before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide, Aransas County sheriff's officials said Wednesday.

Problems often hard to predict
Florida
Mental problems are hard to predict but not unexpected, even in the rigorously chosen as

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