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“Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update” provides healthcare professionals a state of the art, evidenced based presentation of current nicotine/tobacco treatment options for their patients. This excellent free ebook (pdf) spans several hundred pages. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Mixx it up Share via MySpace Share on [...]
As if there were not already enough evidence and reasons to avoid tobacco products, a recent study* revealed that cigarette smoking increased the chance of Major Depression Disorder (MDD) in women. Researchers compared cigarette use in 165 persons with MDD with over 800 persons without MDD in a case-controlled and retrospective design (uses accumulated data/records) [...]
I want readers to know that I have great new posts in the pipeline, including a promised Part 2 to the very popular “Coherent Breathing & Mental/Physical Health (Part 1).” Doctoral school obligations have gotten the best of my time over the past month and half. I recently took the EPPP (state licensure exam [...]
Kaiser Permanente is a progressive not-for-profit health plan provider and one of the initial advocates of behavioral health integration into overall primary medical care. Newly published research* suggests that people who lose weight immediately following Type 2 Diabetes, “insulin resistance,” diagnosis realize improved health outcomes, such as reaching blood pressure and blood sugar goals. Another [...]
02/14/09 Update: AAPB removed the Evidenced-Based Biofeedback/Neurofeedback (2008 Edition) PDF because it is now offered only as regular book. Attached is the PDF of the 2004 edition of this book. Original Post: The Behavioral Medicine Report readers hopefully are becoming more familiar with biofeedback. Upcoming articles will cover other types of biofeedback treatments, not just [...]
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently announced their funding of a randomized, placebo controlled study that will investigate the efficacy of neurofeedback for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The research group is from Ohio State University. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Mixx it up Share via [...]
What is neurofeedback? Neurofeedback, also as “neurotherapy” and “EEG biofeedback,” has been around since 1960′s. In short, neurofeedback teaches self-regulation of deviant brainwave activity. Media attention over the past few years increased due to interest from parents who seek drug free solutions for child behavior problems, especially attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
A national poll conducted by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital’s National Poll on Children’s Health suggests that obesity problems are not limited to adults. In fact, childhood obesity came in at #1 in their poll, bumping smoking and drug abuse from the top spots a year ago. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]
Breathing is something so simple and basic that people seldom give it any thought. The importance of proper breathing should not be underestimated. Believe it or not, your breathing style significantly impacts how you feel, think, and act. In fact, researchers* have identified 6 distinctive breathing styles. Today’s post will cover the “incoherent breathing style.” [...]
A personal friend asked a great question after I told him about The Behavioral Medicine Report: What is Behavioral Medicine? Behavioral Medicine and the related Health Psychology are sub-specialties in psychology. Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary approach (i.e. utilizes knowledge from different fields of healthcare) to the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical information [...]
