Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis congratulated the NHS on major improvements in key mental health services today. His message came as he cut the turf to mark the construction of a new mental health unit at Runwell Hospital in Wickford, Essex. Latest figures show that, for 2007-08: - Specialist crisis resolution home treatment teams provided 106,000 home treatments, supporting people who would otherwise have had to be admitted to hospital.
Dr. Mariana Pereira, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University in Newark (CMBN), is the recent recipient of a "2008 Young Investigator Award" from NARSAD, The World's Leading Charity Dedicated to Mental Health Research (previously known as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression). NARSAD is the world's leading donor-supported organization dedicated to funding research on psychiatric disorders.
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"Among the least-noted aspects of these two seemingly endless wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan "is the psychological toll they are taking on those who have volunteered to fight them," New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes. According to Herbert, multiple tours are not only putting soldiers in "the obvious physical danger" but are "blueprints for psychological disaster.