Mental Health

Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Diabetes in Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers   Psychological development and the impact of diabetes: ages 2-5 years Diabetes during the second to fourth years of life continues to have a profound effect on the parent-child relationship.

Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Introduction to Diabetes in Children    The results of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial1,2 focused the attention of the medical community on the importance of maintaining blood glucose levels as close to the normal range as possible in order to …

Foreword to the Second Edition       It is difficult to conceive of a disease more likely to cause psychological problems than diabetes.

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath Mrs. MJ was referred to a diabetes centre by her GP.  Mrs. MJ, a 60-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes since 2000, presents with…

Psychiatric disorders, particularly depression, have been previously correlated with diabetes….

European organizations are calling for improved care and screening for CVD and diabetes in those with mental illnesses.

New research shows that among the cognitive abilities that are affected by type 2 diabetes, processing speed appears to be the most severely impaired, particularly in patients with undiagnosed disease.

Multisystemic therapy, an intensive home-based family therapy initiative, reduces hospital admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis in adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes, results of a new study recently published. 

A meta-analysis of 4 randomized controlled trials of the weight-loss drug rimonabant concurs with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) findings of an increased risk for serious adverse psychiatric effects — depressed mood disorders and anxiety — although depressed mood was an exclusion criteria.

Johns Hopkins brain scientists have hit on how and why some powerful drugs used for treating mental illnesses cause patients to gain so much weight that they often develop life-threatening complications such as diabetes and heart disease.