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Community Engagement: A Model Mental Health Partnership

open access: yesJournal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2022
A member of the Board of Directors for the Wake County North Carolina affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a volunteer nonprofit organization with the mission of improving the lives of individuals and their families living with ...
Gerry Akland
doaj   +1 more source

Attitudes towards mental illness in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
<p><b>Background:</b> Stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness are strongly linked to suffering, disability and poverty.
Masson, N.   +11 more
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A study of psychiatrists’ concepts of mental illness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background: There are multiple models of mental illness that inform professional and lay understanding. Few studies have formally investigated psychiatrists' attitudes.
Landau, S   +33 more
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Sequential loss of LC noradrenergic and dopaminergic neurons results in a correlation of dopaminergic neuronal number to striatal dopamine concentration

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2012
Noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC) are significantly reduced in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and the LC exhibits neuropathological changes early in the disease process.
Patricia eSzot   +7 more
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The Stigmatization of Mental Illnesses [PDF]

open access: yesThe Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2012
This In Review is intended to provide a statement about the stigmatization of mental illnesses from 2 different but complementary perspectives: one from the vantage of public stereotypes, particularly those expressed by mental health and health providers'; and the other from the vantage of self-stigma, which occurs when an individual internalizes ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Narrative, identity, and recovery from serious mental illness: A life history of a runner [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In recent years, researchers have investigated the psychological effects of exercise for people with mental health problems, often by focusing on how exercise may alleviate symptoms of mental illness.
Carless, D, David Carless
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Social support for and through exercise and sport in a sample of men with serious mental illness. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Social support is important for people experiencing serious mental illness and is also important during the initiation and maintenance of exercise.
Carless, D, Douglas, K
core   +1 more source

Understanding and addressing the stigma of mental illness with ethnic minority communities

open access: yes, 2012
Higher income societies have moved from institutional to community-based care for people experiencing mental illness. However, stigma and discrimination persists and undermines help-seeking, recovery and life chances.
Knifton, Lee, Lee Knifton
core   +1 more source

Social firms as a means of vocational recovery for people with mental illness : a UK survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Employment is associated with better quality of life and wellbeing in people with mental illness. Unemployment is associated with greater levels of psychological illness and is viewed as a core part of the social exclusion faced by people ...
Marwaha, Steven   +31 more
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Geospatial estimates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt prevalence in the U.S. veteran population (2022)

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology
Background Veteran suicide remains a major public health concern; rates increased 64.3% from 2001 to 2022 and substantial geospatial variation exists, with state-level rates ranging from 15.4/100,000 (Maryland) to 87.1/100,000 (Montana).
Julie A. Kittel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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