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After Bereavement, Is It “Normal Grief” or Major Depression? - Psychiatric Times (blog)

2012-02-21
After Bereavement, Is It “Normal Grief” or Major Depression?Psychiatric Times (blog)I offer this preliminary screening instrument without any claim that it has been validated in clinical studies; that it replaces a conventional “DSM” approach to diagnosis; or that it may be used in forensic assessments. 2. The PBPI is not intended as ...

Most self-harming teens leave ERs without receiving mental health assessments - Medill Reports: Chicago

2012-02-21
Medill Reports: ChicagoMost self-harming teens leave ERs without receiving mental health assessmentsMedill Reports: ChicagoBut mental health professionals such as clinical psychologist David Castro-Blanco, a professor at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, said these results are not surprising. “It's a pretty clear call that things need to be different ...

Clinical herbalist offers alternative treatments for various ailments - Brattleboro Reformer

2012-02-21
Clinical herbalist offers alternative treatments for various ailmentsBrattleboro ReformerGarner said his new business venture, located at 38 Park Place, will use the powers of herbs and tinctures, the alcoholic extract of leaves or other plant materials, to treat clients with ailments ranging from insomnia to depression to cancer.and more »

Novel Treatment May Offer New Option for Pediatric Anxiety - Medscape

2012-02-21
Novel Treatment May Offer New Option for Pediatric AnxietyMedscapeIn the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the novel treatment in this patient population, the 15 children assigned to receive ABM showed a significantly greater reduction in the number of anxiety symptoms and in symptom severity compared ...

Study of the Day: Blood Tests Can Accurately Diagnose Depression - The Atlantic

2012-02-16
Study of the Day: Blood Tests Can Accurately Diagnose DepressionThe AtlanticThe scientists validated these findings with a second trial where 31 of the 34 depressed patients were also successfully diagnosed. CAVEAT: The scientists are planning on conducting larger-scale studies in clinical settings to fine-tune their test.and more »

After Bereavement, Is It “Normal Grief” or Major Depression?

2012-02-21
The capacity to be consoled is a consequential distinction between grief and depression. –Kay Jamison PhD, Nothing Was the Same The relationship between grief and depression following recent bereavement has turned into one of the most contentious debates in psychiatry—and recently made front-page news in the New York Times.

Targacept Reports Fourth Quarter and 2011 Financial Results

2012-02-21
Targacept, Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel NNR Therapeutics™, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year

Psychiatric Times Announces Multiplatform Clinical Scales Application for Healthcare Professionals

2012-02-15
NORWALK, Conn., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Medica today announced that Psychiatric Times, the number one psychiatry journal in the United States, has released its multiplatform clinical scales application ...

Clinical herbalist offers alternative treatments for various ailments

2012-02-21
Tuesday February 21, 2012 Natural solutions Clinical herbalist offers alternative treatments for various ailments BRATTLEBORO -- Justin Garner spent about three years of his life looking for acorus calamus.

Blood test accurately distinguishes depressed patients from healthy controls

2012-02-01
The initial assessment of a blood test to help diagnose major depressive disorder indicates it may become a useful clinical tool. A team including Massachusetts General Hospital researchers reports that analyzing levels of nine biomarkers accurately distinguished patients diagnosed with depression from control participants without significant false-positive results.
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Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle)

2011-11-07
List Price: $27.99Not so very long ago, Eragon?Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider?was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.... (read more)
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Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)

2011-11-07
List Price: $27.99Price: $14.98You Save: $13.01 (46%)89 used & new from $11.88Not so very long ago, Eragon?Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider?was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.... (read more)
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The Litigators

2011-10-24
List Price: $28.95The partners at Finley & Figg?all two of them?often refer to themselves as ?a boutique law firm.? Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who?ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces... (read more)
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Steve Jobs

2011-10-23
List Price: $35.00Price: $17.49You Save: $17.51 (50%)156 used & new from $13.42Amazon Best Books of the?Month, November 2011: It is difficult to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson?s Steve Jobs without feeling melancholic. Jobs retired at the end of August and died about six weeks later. Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed. But the initial sadness in starting the book is soon replaced by something else, which is the intensity of (read more)
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Steve Jobs

2011-10-22
List Price: $30.00Amazon Best Books of the?Month, November 2011: It is difficult to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson?s Steve Jobs without feeling melancholic. Jobs retired at the end of August and died about six weeks later. Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed. But the initial sadness in starting the book is soon replaced by something else, which is the intensity of (read more)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

2011-11-10
List Price: $35.99Price: $19.39You Save: $16.60 (46%)70 used & new from $11.80The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the film all Harry Potter fans have waited 10 years to see, and the good news is that it's worth the hype--visually stunning, action packed, faithful to the book, and mature not just in its themes and emotion but in the acting by its cast, some of whom had spent half their lives making Harry Potter movies. Part 2 cuts right to the chase: Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has stolen the Elder Wand, one of the three objects required to give someone power over death (a(read more)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)

2011-11-10
List Price: $28.98Price: $14.99You Save: $13.99 (48%)52 used & new from $12.42The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the film all Harry Potter fans have waited 10 years to see, and the good news is that it's worth the hype--visually stunning, action packed, faithful to the book, and mature not just in its themes and emotion but in the acting by its cast, some of whom had spent half their lives making Harry Potter movies. Part 2 cuts right to the chase: Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has stolen the Elder Wand, one of the three objects required to give someone power over death (a(read more)
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Cherokee Rose

2011-11-06
Price: $1.991 used & new from $1.99Cherokee Rose(read more)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

2011-04-14
List Price: $19.94Price: $5.49You Save: $14.45 (72%)89 used & new from $4.96Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I is a brooding, slower-paced film than its predecessors, the result of being just one half of the final story (the last book in the series was split into two movies, released in theaters eight months apart). Because the penultimate film is all buildup before the final showdown between the teen wizard and the evil Voldemort (which does not occur until The Deathly Hallows, Part II), Part I is a road-trip movie, a heist film, a lot of(read more)
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Cars 2

2011-10-31
List Price: $29.99Price: $18.19You Save: $11.80 (39%)78 used & new from $11.39Lightning McQueen (voice by Owen Wilson), Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), Sally (Bonnie Hunt), and the rest of the gang from Radiator Springs return to the screen in this sequel to Pixar's ... (read more)