Daily Digest: 20 September 2012

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State Mental Health Cuts Hit Low-Income Patients Hard

As states have struggled to balance their budgets, they’ve often eyed public mental health programs for cuts. But those cuts have hit a particularly vulnerable population: low-income people with often severe mental health disorders or addiction issues. Read more…

Simply Irresistible: Scientists Trace Gluttony’s Path in the Brain

How much is too much chocolate? Desperately devouring 5 percent of one’s body weight might sound extreme, but scientists tinkering with the brain chemistry of rodents have found it’s certainly possible. Read more…

Beyond the Brain

In the 1990s, scientists declared that schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses were pure brain disorders that would eventually yield to drugs. Now they are recognizing that social factors are among the causes, and must be part of the cure. Read more…

How—And How Not—To Stand Up for Yourself

It’s become conventional wisdom that it’s essential to stand up for yourself. But there are ways of doing so that are hardly advisable. Ways that will hurt both you and your relationship. Ways that will prevent you from confronting the person most needing to be confronted—yourself. Read more…

A framework for parenting programmes

We know how to reach parents who most need help, says the chair of the British Psychological Society social inclusion group. Read more…