Cognitive Therapy

Peace of mind
Guardian Unlimited - Children play with toy guns under an IRA mural in the mainly-Catholic Market area of south Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP If ever a line could sum up how people in Northern Ireland coped with living in fear during 30 years

Test may help predict depression treatment success
Reuters - 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

Brain imaging can predict effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy
EurekAlert - Whether or not cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) will help a person recover from depression can be predicted through brain imaging, according to research results published by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the April issue of the

Brain Imaging Predicts Treatment Success in Depressed Patients
Medscape News - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 12 - Functional MRI can be used to predict which patients with unipolar depression will respond to cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), according to a report in the April issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. "By

Refining ways to turn heavy oil into sweet crude
Scientific American - OIL SANDS contain sulfur that must be removed. Sweetening such crude oil could be achieved more economically with a sulfur-stripping technique from SulphCo, in which an ultrasonic probe generates bubbles that implode in a billionth of a second. The