Category: Mental Health

During spermatogenesis, the X chromosome is inactivated in the male germline (sperm cells), thereby silencing, or inactivating, genes residing on the X chromosome. X chromosome silencing is thought to be common among species with XY sex determination and has important implications for genome evolution.

Mr Jimmy Devins, T.D., Minister for State at the Department of Health and Children was speaking today following a meeting with Minister Harney and Minister McGimpsey, Minister for Health in Northern Ireland. The Minister said he “acknowledged the importance and value of adopting an all island approach in creating awareness of suicide and collaborating in the area of suicide prevention”. He added “A concerted approach is needed if we are to prevent the further tragic loss of life”.

The European Commission participated in discussions about a series of recommendations for promoting mental health and reducing the burden of mental illness at the ‘Future for Mental Health in Europe’ workshop at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), Austria.

The following summarizes recent news coverage of mental health developments in Kansas and Oregon. Kansas: A dispute between the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and the regional CMS office in Kansas City, Mo., has caused “millions of federal dollars earmarked for Medicaid patient services” to go unpaid, the

Achievements and future perspectives in neuropsychopharmacologyMental disorders are major causes of disability worldwide and rank as number one in terms of direct and indirect health economic costs as a recent ECNP commissioned report has demonstrated (Wittchen et al 2005). Depression, for instance, produces the greatest decrement in health compared with the common chronic diseases angina pectoris, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes (Moussavi et al.

The Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, and two other Hartford centers in the nation, have been funded for a four-year $1.2 million grant to ensure that nurses have the most recent evidence-based guidelines for caring for elders with mental health issues.

The long-running civil war in Sri Lanka is causing more mental health problems and social breakdown than the catastrophic 2004 tsunami, according to research published in the online open access publication International Journal of Mental Health Systems.

Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation announces its next international state of the science conference: “From Innovations to Practice: The Promise and Challenge of Achieving Recovery for All” to be held April 14 & 15, 2008. The location will be the Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel in Cambridge, MA. There will be five pre conference institutes, two keynotes and 35 workshops in the two day period.

According to a study conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations, blacks and Latinos do not have more mental disorders than whites. Based on the theory that stress related to prejudice would increase risk for mental disorders, researchers typically expect that black lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals face prejudice related to both racism and homophobia and therefore would have more disorders than their white counterparts.

A new study examining ethnic differences in patients’ experiences of specialist community mental health services has found that relative to White British people, Asian service users were most likely to respond negatively. In some aspects of services, no ethnic differences were apparent. Minority ethnic groups in the UK are reported to have a poor experience of mental health services, but until now comparative information has been scarce.