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After 15 years, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (NCCBH) has honoured its first Canadian, Bill MacPhee, with a Reintegration Award.The Reintegration Awards were started by the NCCBH in 1997 to celebrate the lives of those...

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0 Comments Antonietta Petrella published Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A recent study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that one-third of Americans living with arthritis who are 45 years or older are also affected by depression and anxiety. Researchers also found that although anxiety...

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0 Comments Antonietta Petrella published Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research looks at current heavy smokers and reports that their risk of developing major depression is three times higher than former heavy smokers. This study supports the causal hypothesis of smoking...

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0 Comments Antonietta Petrella published Wednesday, May 16, 2012

According to a recent study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry’s May 2012 edition, people who suffer from depression late in life are 70 percent more likely to develop dementia than those who do not show symptoms of...

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1 Comments Antonietta Petrella published Tuesday, May 15, 2012

There are many positive health benefits which come from regular exercise, but new research is looking at the benefits of walking for people with depression.Research has shown that a five-kilometer sprint isn’t the only way to ease the effects of...

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0 Comments Antonietta Petrella published Thursday, April 19, 2012

Researchers are increasingly finding that people who suffer from long-term psychological stress, post traumatic stress, or depression have a tendency to develop physical illnesses earlier in life that are typically associated with older age, such as...

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0 Comments Antonietta Petrella published Thursday, April 19, 2012