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The Rise in Mental Health in the United States: Comprehending the Past and Moving Forward, Especially in Youth

Annotated Bibliography Greg Neale, Greg. " Moctezuma: The Leader Who Lost an Empire." The Telegraph. Last modified September 21, 2009.

The number is alarming with one in five children also believed to be overweight or obese before they start primary school. Childhood obesity is a terrifying issue with many studies showing that childhood obesity is linked to obesity in adolescence and through to adulthood. It has been demonstrated that children with obese parents are more likely to obese themselves, continuing a vicious cycle. These children are presented with many complex health issues and risks, including a reduced quality of life. Every child deserves and has the right to a healthy life that they can get them most out of. These obese and overweight children deal with an increased risk of ?CVD?, they often experience asthma and/or wheezing and are continually presented with mental health risks due to poor self esteem, body image or

The authors of the article I chose “Childhood Sexual Abuse, Distress, and Alcohol-Related Moderation by Drinking to Cope” were Kathryn Z. Smith, Phillip H. Smith and Emily R. Grekin. And their hypotheses was “childhood sexual abuse would be associated with distress, but that this distress would only be associated with problem drinking among those who scored high on coping motives for drinking”. Found on page four of ten. They started with the hypothesis that distress would mediate the pathway between childhood sexual abuse and problem drinking. Also that the pathway between distress and problem drinking would be moderated by coping motives for drinking. They used path analyses to examine the moderated-mediation.

The main purpose of this article is to examine various research on the etiology of stuttering. The experimental research explored various brain circuitries involved, specifically the the basal ganglia. Furthermore, the meta-analysis discussed neuroimaging, lesion, pharmacological, and genetic studies on the neural circuitries connected to persistent developmental stuttering and acquired neurogenic stuttering.

Ackerman, W. (2000). The Americanization of Israeli Education. Israel Studies, 5(1), 228-243. Retrieved from http://www.liberty.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30245536

Mnookin, Seth. The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

. . van, d. B. (2007). The association between conduct problems and the initiation and progression of marijuana use during adolescence: A genetic analysis across time. Behavior Genetics, 37(2), 314-25. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10519-006-9124-1 The researchers raise the question of how largely genetic factors play a role in the influence of marijuana use on the individual. Previous research suggests that there is not just one factor, but individuals are more likely to be environmentally influenced. The researchers challenge these findings and suggest that genetics has just as much influence on the individual. Using a longitudinal research design the authors investigated both genetic and environmental influences on the association between earlier conduct problems and the initiation and progression of marijuana use during adolescence. Bivariate genetic analyses were conducted to establish whether marijuana initiation and progression represented a single liability of risk or alternatively, whether these behaviors were more accurately represented as independent liabilities. These findings mark an important shift away from documenting cross-sectional associations between conduct problems and substance use, from which it is impossible to determine the direction of effects, toward the use

Banza, V. (2009). Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes: Free abdominal fluid without obvious solid organ injury upon CT imaging: an actual problem or simply over-diagnosing. pp., 1-8. Doi: 10.1186/1752-2897-3-10

Gonchar, Michael. “How Important Is It to Be Attractive in Our Society?” The New York Times,

Friedman, J., & Hoffman, D. V. (2008). Protecting data on mobile devices: A taxonomy of security threats to mobile computing and review of applicable defenses. Information Knowledge Systems Management, 7(1, 2), 159-180.

Hagerty, James R. "It's No Fun Making Toys or Toasters in the USA." Wall Street Journal. 10 Feb. 2015:

nfeld, S. O., Waldman, I. D., Landfield, K., Watts, A. L., Rubenzer, S., & Faschingbauer, T. R. (2012). Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(3), 489-505. Retrieved from http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pdh&AN=2012-19403-001&site=ehost-live&scope=site

The main purpose of this article is to assess the association between childhood or young adult overweight/obesity and the risk of depression. The key issue that the author addressed was the association between childhood and young adult overweight/obesity and incidence of depression, which was estimated by multiple-adjusted Hazard Ratio (HR) and its 95% Confidence Interval (CI). In addition, children who are found to have weight problem as early as the age of 5 are predicted to have an increased risk for depression as they reach adulthood. These results, if causal and confirmed in other prospective studies, support treating childhood and young adult overweight/obesity as part of comprehensive adult depression prevention efforts. To conduct this experiment researcher interviewed 11,825 Spanish participants of the SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) project by Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, Adriano M. Pimenta, Juan J. Beunza, Francisco Guillen-Grima, Estefanía Toledo, and Miguel A. Martinez-Gonzalez. Using a baseline questionnaire with a nine-level figure scheme of body images, researchers were able to make a body weight assessment. Participants were asked to select, which of the nine figures most closely represented their body shape at ages 5 and 20 years old. A depression assessment was also done and showed that 74.2% of those

A study done by Dr. George Reeves (1942) showed that emotional states play an important role in the quality of people’s eating habits. He studies five obese white women. Dr. Reeves concluded that (a) obesity was used at a defense mechanism (b) these patterns were sadistic and masochistic (c) oral satisfaction extended beyond social acceptable forms and (d) obesity was used to simulate a masculine ideal. This study was limited because he had only five cases of women, and they were all the same race and around the same age. Hirsch and Morse (1960) presented a study to relate emotions to obesity and establish correlations between metabolic findings from the obese patients in their study. They brought 74 patients to the Victoria General Hospital Outpatient Obesity Clinic. The patients were given a questionnaire that was oriented around their obesity history. The material from the interview were reviewed for symptoms of emotional distress such as depression, anxiety, delusions, etc. 27 of the 74 patients were judged to have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder after the questionnaire was completed. This study however was unreliable because there was no average weighted people to interview as a control, also the people in the study were unprepared to think abstractly, so the physician guided them throughout the questionnaire, which made the data unreliable. Collyer (1974) backed Reeves (1942) conclusions that women may gain weight as a defense mechanism to protect