IN THE WAKE OF THE RECENT SCHOOL SHOOTING IN Newtown, Connecticut, a public dialogue emerged about the accessibility of mental health care in the United States. Policy makers have called for a more critical examination of the mental health treatment system, and advocates are rallying around federal legislation that would strengthen community-based mental health services—especially for children ...

PURPOSE To determine the utility and tolerability of levetiracetam (LEV) compared to phenytoin (PHT) in preventing clinical seizures in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). METHODS Utility and tolerability of PHT and LEV in patients with SAH were determined by the occurrence of breakthrough clinical seizures or adverse events necessitating a change of medication. Comparisons were perf...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the preferences and experiences of people with mental illness in relation to residential alternatives to hospital. AIMS To explore patients' subjective experiences of traditional hospital services and residential alternatives to hospital. METHOD In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 purposively selected patients in residential alternative services who h...

The symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS) are associated with reductions in patients' quality of life (QoL) and mental heath. Sleep disturbance, which is often the most troublesome symptom of RLS, may have a negative impact on patients' daytime cognitive abilities. Research has established a relationship between the symptoms of RLS and mood symptoms, but causality is unclear. Some studies ha...

One in fi ve children in the US has a diagnosable mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder that interferes with functioning and requires intervention.1 One in 10 children may suffer from a serious emotional disturbance. Half of adults with mental health disorders have symptoms by the age of 14 years.2 However, 80% of children do not receive the mental health services they need.3 Studies show t...

The successful establishment of invasive species has been shown to depend on aspects of the invaded community, such as gap characteristics. Biotic resistance may be particularly critical for stopping invaders at early life history stages, but new species can often invade following disturbances, which may create microsites with very different characteristics than are usually present. We examine ...

A growing number of studies quantify the impact of nonlethal human disturbance on the behavior and reproductive success of animals. Athough many are well designed and analytically sophisticated, most lack a theoretical framework for making predictions and for understanding why particular responses occur. Behavioral ecologists have recently begun to fill this theoretical vacuum by applying econo...

We study self-avoiding and neighbour-avoiding walks and lattice trails on two semiregular lattices, the (3.122) lattice and the (4.82) lattice. For the (3.122) lattice we find the exact connective constant for both self-avoiding walks, neighbour-avoiding walks and trails. For the (4.82) lattice we generate long series which permit the accurate estimation of the connective constant for self-avoi...