Cognitive Therapy

Mental health experts' tactics for rain blues Go outside anyway, some
San Francisco Gate - Seattle may be used to the kind of unrelenting rain that's been pelting Northern California in recent weeks, but the Bay Area most definitely is not, and mental health experts say the prolonged wet weather is leaving folks feeling just as gray and

Turning V-8s into V-4s may yield the fastest fuel savings
Scientific American - GAS SAVER: Four cylinders of this General Motors GEN IV V-8 engine shut down when they are not needed, thus boosting fuel economy. Despite rising fuel prices and fears of an oil crunch, Americans' lust for big vehicles with gas-gulping V-8 engines is

Experts say antidepressant drugs cause suicides instead of preventing
NewsTarget - In June 2001, a jury in Wyoming determined that the antidepressant drug Paxil caused a man to kill his wife, daughter and granddaughter before killing himself. The jury awarded the surviving family $8 million in damages, according to American Medical

HealthCheck Reports: April 2006
WPVI - Two thirds of all Americans live in dirty air. That's the word from the American Lung Association's annual "state of the air" report. The ALA says 150 million people live in counties with harmful levels of pollution. Although programs to clean up

Brain Scans Predict Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
KXAN - Brain scans can predict which patients suffering from depression will benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy, a new study says. Results of the study, by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, appear in the April issue of

Test may help predict depression treatment success
Reuters UK - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A brain imaging technique called functional MRI may help spot those individuals with "unipolar" depression who are likely to respond to cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), research suggests. "Bipolar" depression (also called