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Kansas Programs Reflect a Growning Understanding of Psychiatry for the Young

The future of us all is written right there on our babies’ faces. To the extent that our smallest citizens are cooing, babbling, crinkling up their eyes to smile at Mommy and Daddy, much is — and probably will be — right with the world. But there are the other babies, the ones who don’t smile, don’t look at you, who shut down and won’t eat or sleep, who cry inconsolably....read the full article

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Safety Net: Mental Health Servics Critical

THE Virginia Tech community mourned last week as it remembered the 32 students and faculty killed a year ago by a student gunman who then killed himself. Left behind were sadness, anger and the ultimate conclusion that college campuses aren't as safe as they should be...read the full article

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Decriminalizing Mental Illness

"Psycho." "Freak." "Jason from the horror movie." These are the answers that counselor Habsi Kaba gets from Miami police officers when asked to describe people with mental illness. Such stereotypes are surprisingly common, says Kaba, and not just within law enforcement....read the full article

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Research Reveals Genetic Links to Schizophrenia

The devastating mental illness schizophrenia may be caused by many different mutations in many different genes that disrupt biological pathways vital to normal brain development, scientists said on Thursday....read full article here

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Half of Kids Labeled Bipolar May be Misdiagnosed

A new analysis suggests there's been a huge increase in the number of U.S. children diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but experts question whether the surge is real and say some kids have been mislabeled. ..read full article here

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Thousands of Veterans Returning with Mental Illness

Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a new study concludes.

The study was published in the March 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine and carried out by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center....read full article here

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Oklahoma's Innovation Center mentioned at 2007 Joint National Conference

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CMHS Funds National Transformation Center Continuing work of GAINS Center

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