Treating Women’s Depression Might Help Them Lose Weight

For many women coping with obesity and depression, new research finds that improving your mood might be the link to losing weight

The new study, which appears in the November/December issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry, cites past surveys that show having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more — classified as obese — increases a person’s risk of depression by 50 percent to 150 percent.

Science Daily.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210095348.htm

Can marijuana induce psychosis?

Forty years of research has led to this: yes, and no.


This question is recurrently discussed in the popular press and by online bloggers. What I've discovered is that depending upon one's personal motivations for supporting or outlawing marijuana use, the available data allows one to make reasonable-sounding arguments on either side of the issue. The actual answer is far more nuanced. 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-food/201011/can-marijuana-induce-psychosis