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At least one major symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
was reported by about 20 percent of 1,114 women in the U.S. Air Force
deployed during the Iraq War, says a University of Michigan study that
found a link between PTSD and work-family conflict.
The women in the survey (74.2 percent enlisted, 25.8 percent
officers) were deployed at least once since March 19, 2003. About 62
percent of them were deployed in a theater of war.
The study authors found that women who experienced higher levels of
family-work conflict were more likely to have symptoms of anxiety and
depression. They were also less likely to feel they could cope with
daily demands and responsibilities.
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As the mother of a newborn baby girl, Dr. Anya C. Hurlbert wondered
why all the products aimed at her daughter tended to have a pinkish
tint.
As a professor of visual neuroscience at Newcastle University in
England, Hurlbert was able to create a scientifically sound study to
determine whether girls really do prefer pink. The answer, as outlined
in a report in the Aug. 21 issue of the journal Current Biology,, is "yes." Females do have a preference for pinkish colors that males don't.
"We find very clear differences between the males and females we
have tested," Hurlbert said. "We haven't yet found any exceptions."
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What motivates some teens to gun down fellow students in the hallways or grounds of their schools?
Perhaps a characteristic called "cynical shyness." This is an
extreme form of shyness affecting mostly males that can lead to violent
behavior such as that seen at Columbine, Colo., or, most recently,
Virginia Tech, according to researchers who were to present their
findings Saturday evening at the American Psychological Association's
annual meeting, in San Francisco.
"Cynically shy people are shy people who are motivated toward moving
to others, and then they are rejected," said Bernardo Carducci, lead
author of the study and director of the Shyness Research Institute at
Indiana University Southeast in New Albany.
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Antidepressant drug use during
pregnancy, but not depression itself, is associated with an
increased risk of preterm birth and lower fetal age at
delivery, according to results of a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
"Depressive symptoms are not uncommon during pregnancy,
and...symptoms may occur more frequently during pregnancy than
in the postpartum period," write Dr. Rita Suri and colleagues
from the University of California, Los Angeles. Depression
during pregnancy and just after delivery "has been associated
with low maternal weight gain, increased frequency of
cigarette, alcohol, and substance use, and ambivalence about
the pregnancy."
To further investigate, the researchers examined the
effects of maternal depression and antidepressant drug use on
fetal age and risk of preterm birth in a study of 90 pregnant
women.
The women were divided into three groups: 49 women had
major depressive disorder and were treated with antidepressant
medication for more than 50 percent of their pregnancy; 22
women had major depressive disorder and were briefly treated or
not treated with antidepressants during pregnancy; and a
comparison group of 19 healthy pregnant women.
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Repeated and ever-longer war-zone tours are putting increasing
pressure on military families, the Army said Thursday, helping push
soldier suicides to a record rate.
There were 99 Army suicides
last year - nearly half of them soldiers who hadn't reached their 25th
birthdays, about a third of them serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Col.
Elspeth Ritchie, psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general,
told a Pentagon press conference that the primary reason for suicide is
"failed intimate relationships, failed marriages."
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