For decades research has shown that listening to music alleviates anxiety and depression, enhances mood, and can increase cognitive functioning, such as spatial awareness. However, until now, research has not addressed how we listen to music. For instance, is the cognitive benefit still the same if we listen to music whilst performing a task, rather than before it? Further, how does our preferenc
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June 26, 2010
Brief Psychological Therapy Is Effective In Primary Care
Brief therapy at the GP's surgery can effectively treat anxiety and depression. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medicine found that cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) was effective for treating anxiety disorders, while CBT, problem solving therapy (PST) and counseling were all equally effective in treating depression and mixed anxiety and depression...
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June 24, 2010
Mental Heath Coalition Welcomes New Government Spending On Psychological Therapies, UK
The Government has announced its plans to continue to invest £70 million into psychological therapies designed to treat common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. Since 2007, the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) scheme has focused on increasing access to talking treatment Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)...
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May 22, 2010
A Cautious Thumbs Up For Tai Chi
Tai Chi, a low impact martial art, has been associated with reduced stress, anxiety and depression, and enhanced mood, in both healthy people and those with chronic conditions...
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May 19, 2010
Mental Stress Doesn’t Distract Young Drivers At The Wheel
Teen drivers are four times more likely to be involved in motor vehicle crashes than older drivers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but anxiety and depression do not play a role in teen motor vehicle accidents, a new study finds...
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February 9, 2010
Feeling Gray, Not Blue, Using Colors To Describe Emotions
People with anxiety and depression are most likely to use a shade of gray to represent their mental state. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medical Research Methodology describe the development of a color chart, The Manchester Color Wheel, which can be used to study people's preferred pigment in relation to their state of mind...
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January 26, 2010
The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling?
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years. Today five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or an anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it
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January 21, 2010
Emotions should be taken seriously, researcher urges
The extent of mental health problems is increasing, and has become one of the biggest challenges facing Europe today. As much as 10-25 per cent of women are at risk of developing serious depression during their lifetime. This implies that a large number of European women will experience mental problems such as anxiety and depression, which are more frequent among women than men. How can the healt
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January 18, 2010
Depression, demoralisation and CBT for everyone
I was roving through my Twitter feed this morning,when I got word (via Gail Eva) of a paper debating the introduction of an enormous amount of money to provide CBT to people in England with anxiety and depression. The paper is in the British Journal of Psychiatry here and it’s available in its entirety.While [...]... Summerfield, D., & Veale, D. (2008) Proposals for massive expansi
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December 29, 2009
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety and Depression
For both depression and anxiety disorders in youths, there is increasing evidence of clinical benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
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