Toshihiko Matsumoto, MD, PhD,* Hisateru Tachimori, PhD, Ayumi Takano, MS, Yuko Tanibuchi, MD, PhD, Daisuke Funada, MD and Kiyoshi Wada, MD, PhD Departments of Drug Dependence Research, Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Graduate School of Med...

Virtual reality was used to sequentially present objects within a town square and to test recognition of object locations from the same viewpoint as presentation, or from a shifted viewpoint. A developmental amnesic case with focal bilateral hippocampal pathology showed a massive additional impairment when tested from the shifted viewpoint compared with a mild, list length-dependent, impairment...

Smokers are exposed to advice about quitting from numerous sources. Within the 2013 ITC 4-Country Survey, 1211 Australian smokers or recent ex-smokers rated the perceived importance of eight sources of advice, categorized into evidence-based, non evidence-based, personal experience and vicarious experience (two items each), and also rated their intention to quit, nicotine dependence, use of qui...

OBJECTIVES This article estimates the prevalence of alcohol and illicit drug dependence among Canadians aged 15 or older Comorbidity with depression is examined. DATA SOURCES The data are from the 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental Health and Well-being and the National Population Health Survey. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Cross-tabulations were used to estimate the prevalence of alcoh...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise dependence on the psychological health of Chinese college students. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 1601 college students from three universities in Hunan, China, were selected as research subjects. Several measurement scales, including the Exercise Addiction Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Center fo...

Treatment-related decreases in Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale (DAS; Weissman & Beck, 1978) scores have been interpreted as evidence that dysfunctional attitudes are state-dependent concomitants of depression. Data from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program were used to reexamine the stability of dysfunctional attitudes. Mean scores for Per...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether common affective disorders and anxiety disorders increase the risk of alcohol dependence and alcohol misuse. Aims To investigate whether affective disorders and anxiety disorders increase the risk of alcohol dependence and alcohol misuse. METHOD This study is a retrospective cohort study based on data collected from the 2007 Australia Mental Health and Well-Be...

s | 43 PS126 DAPK1 interaction with NMDA receptor NR2B subunit underlies the rapid antidepressant effect Ling-Zhi Xu,1,2,# Su-Xia Li,2,# Ying Han 1,2,#, Ruo-Xi Zhang,1,2 Lin Lu 1,2,3 1Institute of Mental Health/Peking University Sixth Hospital and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China; 2National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing, China; 3Peki...

Mindfulness is one of the fastest growing areas of psychological research and over 70% of general practitioners in the United Kingdom now believe that mindfulness/meditation can be beneficial for patients with mental health issues [1]. In a previous issue of the Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy, Penberthy focused on an intervention known as mindfulness-based relapse prevention [MBRP] a...