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Winter 2016 Issue of Outlook Published

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)

The winter 2016 issue of SBM's Outlook newsletter has been published. This issue, for instance, features several previews of events being planned for SBM's 2016 Annual Meeting. Each issue of Outlook provides updates about SBM activities and behavioral medicine advancements. It also features a Q&A with a health policy activist.

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Spring/Summer 2016 Issue of Outlook Published

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)

The spring/summer 2016 issue of SBM's Outlook newsletter has been published. Outlook is the official newsletter of SBM, published three times a year. Each issue of Outlook provides updates about SBM activities, policies, and other issues affecting the behavioral medicine community.

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Scores of Papers by Top NIH Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah Fall Under Suspicion

Mad in America

From Science : “In 2016, when the U.S. Congress unleashed a flood of new funding for Alzheimer’s disease research, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) tapped veteran brain researcher Eliezer Masliah as a key leader for the effort. He took the helm at the agency’s Division of Neuroscience, whose budget—$2.6

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“Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

Mad in America

”’ Article → Back to Around the Web The post “Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown appeared first on Mad In America.

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Worse Weather Pushes People to Social Media

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

billion Facebook and Twitter (now called X) posts between 2009 and 2016. In a study published in 2018, he found that worse weather seemed to lower the mood of social media postspeople would log on to express their discontent (Baylis et al., For the new study, Minor, Obradovich, and colleagues examined over 3.5 Kryvasheyeu, Y., Obradovich, N.,

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Image-Based Memory May Heighten Symptoms of PTSD 

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2016; Ji et al., During analysis of these datasets, the researchers controlled for depression symptoms and gender , which previous research had found could skew studies of this sort (Holmes et al., Mental imagery and post-traumatic stress disorder: A neuroimaging and experimental psychopathology approach to intrusive memories of trauma.

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Medication-free Ward in Tromsø, Norway May Soon Close

Mad in America

In 2016, the Norwegian Health Ministry ordered all four health districts in the country to set aside beds for such care. The Tromsø ward opened in 2017, and over the six years, it has shown that offering patients the option to forgo psychiatric medication, or to taper from the drugs, can be a successful model of care.