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Friday, 29 August 2008 05:51 am
Perdue seeks to reorganize mental health services (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
26 Aug 2008 at 11:35am
Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to reorganize Georgia's social services agencies, creating a separate department to oversee the perpetually troubled state psychiatric hospitals and other mental health services. In a news conference today, Perdue endorsed recommendations from a study group to create three new departments from the two that now provide social and health-care services: the Department of ...
Torture took its toll on Zardari?s mental health (Pakistan News Tribune)
27 Aug 2008 at 7:03am
ISLAMABAD: Close associates of Zardari strongly rejected the story published in the Financial Times raising doubts about the mental health of PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
Grading The States: Mental Health Services Survey (Medical News Today)
26 Aug 2008 at 9:13am
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is preparing to grade each of the 50 states on mental health services and invites the public to help by taking an online survey-and forwarding it to others. The survey is available at here and includes a version in Spanish. In 2006, NAMI's "Grading the States: A Report on America's Mental Healthcare System for Serious Mental Illnesses" www.nami.
Mental Skills Can Decline Years Before Dying (HealthCentral.com)
27 Aug 2008 at 5:34pm
Copyright © 2008 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- In their golden years, men and women who remain free of dementia will nonetheless undergo an accelerated drop in key mental skills as much as 15 years before their death, a new study reveals.
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On the start line, you were so confident that day, you believed no one could race with you. On the track, racing felt effortless and smooth. You were in the flow on every jump, bump, and turn. Your rhythm was perfect in the whoops. Every section of the track was executed just as you saw in your mind. Your mind was so immersed into racing each section--one at a time--that you were oblivious to other racers. Today you were not checking to see who was behind you. Your motorcycle responded with e ...
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