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May 6th, 2008

Increase Your Intelligence When You Increase Your Memory?

Has the ol’ brain been feeling rather weak, lately? You may want to read up on how researchers now think we can improve our fluid intelligence.
Researchers conducted a study to determine whether or not increasing working memory would help increase fluid intelligence, because the two are so closely related.
The results?
Yes.
According to Susanne M. Jaeggi, a […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments

May 6th, 2008

NAMI Cookout For Mental Health Month

As I mentioned yesterday, my NAMI affiliation had a cookout at one of our local city parks in honor of Mental Health Month.
Well, it turned out to be a lovely event! The weather was gorgeous, the food was delicious, and aside from a crowd of skateboarding teenagers (who eventually moved on to skate somewhere else […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments

May 5th, 2008

Which Is Better For Your Brain: Compliments Or Money?

If given the choice, would you rather win the lottery or receive a compliment?
Many of you are probably thinking, “Give me the cash!” However, according to the Japanese National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, receiving a compliment activates the same area of your brain that’s activated when you receive cash. You may be just […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 4 comments

May 5th, 2008

Austrian Father Josef Fritzl To Plead Insanity

In keeping with the children and mental health theme (though, on a much more disturbing level), after last week I knew it was only a matter of time before I was passing this information along to you:
AMSTETTEN, Austria - The lawyer for the Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 6 comments

May 5th, 2008

Resources & Support For Children’s Mental Health Week

In addition to May being Mental Health Awareness Month (or, simply Mental Health Month, depending on where you read about it), the week of May 4-10 is Children’s Mental Health Week and it kicked off with a bang yesterday (May 4) with Childhood Depression Awareness Day.
To help you better understand children’s mental health, or - […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 2 comments

May 3rd, 2008

Saturday Sanity: Keeps The Doctor Away

Well, OK, you got me. Saturday Sanity doesn’t exactly keep the doctor away, but it does keep you up to date with what’s going on in the world of mental health, and that’s good too, right?

I talked about a lot of stuff this week here at Mental Health Notes. Not only did I get to […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 2 comments

May 2nd, 2008

Suicide Warning Signs: In Light Of Deborah Jeane Palfrey

It’s all over the news, so by now you’ve all probably heard about the notorious “D.C. madam,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, committing suicide. I first learned of it when I opened my Yahoo! email account last night and was greeted with this Yahoo! News article: Police: ‘D.C. madam’ kills herself in Fla. coastal town.
There’s something […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 6 comments

May 1st, 2008

Enter The Mental Health Notes Birthday Giveaway!

Guess what amigos! Not only does today begin Mental Health Awareness Month, but it’s Mental Health Notes’s first birthday!
That’s right - exactly one year ago today b5media and I gave birth to Mental Health Notes, the lovely vessel of information you read each day (well, at least I hope you read it each day…every other […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 8 comments

April 30th, 2008

Wentworth Miller Fans Pull Together For UNICEF

Oh, snap!
Thanks to Newscom, I now have access to a delicious cornucopia of Wentworth Miller pictures I can use here at Mental Health Notes - legally. Good thing, too, because I have some equally delicious - and inspiring - Wenti-related news.
I know, I know - you’re probably feeling as suspicious about my motives as my […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 9 comments

April 28th, 2008

Austrian Family Presents Psychiatrists With Bizarre Case

With it’s themes of incest and secretly imprisoning children, this is quite the Flowers in the Attic-type story; only, it’s more like Flowers in the Basement.
Oh, and unlike the V.C. Andrews novel, this isn’t fiction.
A 42-year-old Austrian woman, simply identified as Elisabeth F., has been rescued from her 73-year-old father’s windowless basement cell, where she […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 4 comments

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