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Dying in plain sight in the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital.

Patient's death points to persistent problems at Oregon's state mental hospital.

Oregon Psychiatric Hospital chief resigns after patient death.

Advocates demand federal court control.

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Benefit of Antidepressant Medications Appears to Vary With Severity of Depression Symptoms

Newsweek’s Topsy-Turvy Take on Antidepressants

For Initial Treatment Of Moderate To Severe Major Depression, Cognitive

Therapy And Medication May Be Equally Effective

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Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy: The Wall Street Journal

Psychiatry seems to have lost its way in a forest of

poorly verified diagnoses and ineffectual medications.

The Rebecca Riley Case

If a kid’s so medicated you have to carry her from the school bus into the school, doesn’t that warrant calling an ambulance or phoning a doctor?

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"Bad-behavin' kids who have been labeled as bipolar"

Childhood bipolar disorder is actually NOT bipolar disorder.

Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria: A new DSM-V disorder.

(1) Say Hello to Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria

(2) Childhood Bipolar Disorder is not Bipolar?

Over-Diagnosis of Bipolar May Harm Children

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Better Genetic Test for Autism? Chromosomal Microarray Analysis Picks Up More Abnormalities Than Current Tests

A genetic test that samples the entire genome, known as chromosomal microarray analysis, has about three times the detection rate for genetic changes related to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) than standard tests.

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A Definitive Source for Autism Therapy Information

Healing Thresholds has been redesigned to make it easier to find detailed information on more than 1,000 autism therapy topics. Each topic is displayed on a single page with fact sheets, research & news summaries, and user comments. Healing Thresholds Website

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School has 11 year old autistic boy charged with felony assault

In an effort to start this school year out on the right foot, Price’s mother requested a summer IEP meeting. The request was denied. The district said that the IEP would be conducted once the school year began. Price was placed in a typical classroom of 28 students. “Two and a half months after the school year began, he had already been suspended 14 times and they had called the police on him”.

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Justice Delayed, Dismissed, Denied: Philadelphia Inquirer Investigation

In America's most violent big city, the criminal justice system is failing.

The city ranked #1 in 2008 in every category of violent crime.

Teens on school violence: 'Everybody's dying young'

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Mental Health Kills the Mentally Ill

NIMH rejected funding for a treatment trial for schizophrenia but funded research on how people think in Papua New Guinea; rejected funding for research on bipolar disorder in children but funded research on self-esteem in college students; and rejected funding for research on the causes of postpartum depression but funded research on the hearing mechanism of crickets.

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Why Bangalore is the Suicide capital of India?

In 2002 there were 154,000 suicides recorded in India.

One out of every three is committed by a youth 15 to 29 years old.