The Behavioral Medicine Report

The July 21rst edition of the NIH/NIMH Research News Update highlights new information that includes evidence-based prevention of suicide in the military, depression is more strongly related to stress rather than a gene, more on stimulants and sudden death, a brief one-time intervention helps to reduce sexually transmitted diseases in African American males, and the NIH to launch the “connectome” project of the human brain (similar to the genome, but for brain function).

Here are today’s NIH/NIMH Research News Update:

• NIH Launches the Human Connectome Project to Unravel the Brain’s Connections
• Evidence-Based Prevention is Goal of Largest Ever Study of Suicide in the Military
• Brain Emotion Circuit Sparks as Teen Girls Size Up Peers
• Much Touted “Depression Risk Gene” May Not Add to Risk After All
• Questions Raised About Stimulants and Sudden Death
• Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
• Brief, Clinic-Based, Peer-led Intervention Helps Reduce Subsequent STDs in African American Men

Enjoy.

CFisher