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Getting Through Those Winter Blues

Friday, 30 January 2009 11:56 P GMT
 Long cold nights and dull dark days - the British winter isn't fun for anyone. Travelling to and from work in the dark and spending all day cooped up in an artificially lit office can send some people into a downwards spiral of exhaustion,

Harvard Health Publications Launches Online Stress Resource Center

Friday, 30 January 2009 11:46 P GMT
 Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School, today announced the creation of its online Stress Resource Center at http://www.health.harvard.edu/stress. The resource center was created to help the general publi

Fwd: CCDI Hot News: Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act Training Opportunity

Friday, 30 January 2009 11:24 P GMT
*CCDI HOT NEWS: Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act Training Opportunity* *Americans with Disabiliities Act Amendments Act* More Info <http://capwiz. com/ccdionline/ issues/alert/ ?alertid= 12538941& queueid=28544216 11> Trainin

Action Alert: Support A3625 and De-Institutionalization in New Jersey

Friday, 30 January 2009 11:18 P GMT
Fwd:Hello, As many of you recall, earlier this month we worked with NJ Assemblyman Louis Greenwald and NJACP to introduce legislation which, if passed, will close five of New Jersey's seven institutions and shift the funds into community services

News 29th January, 2009.

Thursday, 29 January 2009 2:06 P GMT
 HEADLINES “Vulnerable deaths inquiry set up”: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7834393.stm “Victim support”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/21/learning-disability-mental-health “Disabled foster k

ASAN In Education Week: Plan for Federal Autism Research Marked by Debate on Vaccines

Wednesday, 28 January 2009 8:39 P GMT
 By Christina A. SamuelsA high-profile employee's recent resignation from a well-known advocacygroup for people with autism has drawn attention to the work of a federalboard charged with providing a strategic plan for the government on resea

Teens on the Spectrum: AS From An AS Perspective

Wednesday, 28 January 2009 3:29 P GMT
  <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> By Dean Beadle Dean Beadle is a nineteen year old young adult with Asperger's Syndrome. He tours the UK giving speeches at conferenc

Time To Change Campaign

Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:43 A GMT
  Stephen's story Stephen Fry has experienced mental health problems for much of his life. But it wasn't until he was 37 that he was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder. "I'd never hear

Encouraging A Positive View & Exposing the Charlatans... Book: Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion

Saturday, 24 January 2009 12:27 P GMT
 Helene Guldberg'Autistic children are now seen as a burden'Dr Michael Fitzpatrick talks about how raising an autistic child is made infinitely harder by the charlatans waging the 'war on autism'.  Dr Michael Fitzpatrick&rsq

NYTimes: An Evolving View of Depression/Sex & Depression/Stressbusters Etc

Friday, 23 January 2009 5:09 P GMT
 New York Times News Service — In the world of therapy, Dr Aaron T. Beck is a rock star. Considered the father of cognitive behavior therapy, a form of psychological treatment that has swept the country in recent decades, he has been so

Abstract: The relationship between migraine and mental disorders

Friday, 23 January 2009 4:54 P GMT
 The relationship between migraine and mental disorders in a population-based sample. Ratcliffe GE, Enns MW, Jacobi F, Belik SL, Sareen J. Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Community Health Sciences,

Ongoing Updates Canada - Urgent Call For Immediate Action To Reinstate Minna Mettinen-Kekalainen's Home Care As Hunger Strike Continues

Thursday, 22 January 2009 10:57 A GMT
ALS patient on hunger strike over home care Posted By CAROL MULLIGAN, THE SUDBURY STAR A desperately ill Sudbury woman heralded as a champion -- athletically and of human rights -- is entering the sixth day of a fast to end her suffering and her l

Happiness: Gratitude Enhanced by Focusing on End of Pleasurable Experience/Happier.com

Wednesday, 21 January 2009 5:41 P GMT
 Gratitude Enhanced by Focusing on End of Pleasurable ExperienceOne of the greatest challenges to achieving happiness through gratitude is routine, familiarity and habit. We behave as if the things we enjoy now - health, job, family and friends

Dhanil Ali - Playwright To Premiere "Peas" In Liverpool

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:12 P GMT
 A new play, Peas, written by a person with Asperger syndrome, is being staged in Liverpool in February. The play deals with the relationship between Bunny, a 30-year-old with Asperger syndrome and his mother, Mrs Kemp. Dhanil Ali, the play'

NAS - Employment Training Courses For Autistic Adults Scheduled For February

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 10:28 P GMT
Prospects, The National Autistic Society's employment service, is running three employment training courses in February about communication skills, personal management skills, and dealing with anxiety at work. These are open to adults with autism

Professor Baron-Cohen: Our Research Was Not About Prenatal Screening For Autism

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 4:22 P GMT
 We merely aimed to understand what causes differences in autistic traits Comments (22) <!-- end article-header -->

Anxiety & Physical Illness

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 4:18 P GMT
  Harvard Women's Health Watch Understanding and treating anxiety can often improve the outcome of chronic disease. With headlines warning us of international terrorism, global warming, and economic slowdown, we're all likely to be a l

Fwd: ASAN Joins Cross-Disability Coalition Recommendations to Obama Transition Team

Friday, 16 January 2009 5:23 P GMT
 Fwd:Disability Groups Send Recommendations to Obama Dear President-elect Obama, Congratulations on capturing the hearts, minds, and hopes of our nation! As grassroots, community-based, consumer-controlled disability organizations, which collect

Study: Teasing Apart Links Between Depression & Heart Disease/Do You Know What To Do For A Stroke?

Friday, 16 January 2009 5:04 P GMT
 By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Published: December 15, 2008 People who are depressed are literally sick at heart: they have a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and no one knows exactly why. Now three new studies have

News 15th January, 2009.

Thursday, 15 January 2009 1:56 P GMT
 HEADLINES “Mother convicted of killing ordered to pay”: http://www.examiner.com/a-1763749~Mother_convicted_of_killing_girl_ordered_to_pay.html “Report: Kids are restrained, secluded”: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/n
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Is It Really Bad To Be Sad?

Wednesday, 14 January 2009 7:31 P GMT
  14 January 2009 by Jessica MarshallWHY be miserable? OK, so it's January and you're feeling fat and broke after the excesses of the holiday season, but there's really no need. Misery is in

Social Skills "Making Room for Miss Manners ..."

Tuesday, 13 January 2009 8:19 P GMT
  Making Room for Miss Manners Is a Parenting BasicBy PERRI KLASS, M.D. Published: January 12, 2009 <!--NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 --> For years, I took care of a very rude child. When he was 3, I called him rambunctious &

Daniel Tammet "Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant"

Tuesday, 13 January 2009 7:25 P GMT
 Daniel Tammet (Image: Toby Madden/Eyevine)  07 January 2009 by Celeste BieverAutistic savant Daniel Tammet shot to fame when he set a European record for the number of digits of pi he recited from

Gary McKinnon - Ongoing Updates

Monday, 12 January 2009 12:16 P GMT
Gary McKinnon, the hacker accused of breaking into the Pentagon and Nasa, could be tried in Britain Photo: PA Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon could be tried in Britain Gary McKinnon, the British hacker accused of breaking into
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Behaviour Link to Lifelong Health

Friday, 9 January 2009 8:44 P GMT
  People who behaved badly at school are more likely to suffer mental health and social difficulties as adults, a 40-year-study of Britons suggests. Canadian researchers writing in the British Medical Journal examined data from 3,500 people fro

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