CrossCurrents Spring 2004

CrossCurrents

Focus: Health in Motion - The Benefits and Risks of Getting Physical
- If you fall down, just pick yourself back up: Snowboarding teaches at-risk youth to conquer mountains - and life's challenges
- Active bodies and healthy minds: Physical activity promotes recovery from mental illness
- Runner's high revisited: Does exercise addiction have a place in the DSM?
- Working out the pain: Treating eating disorders and unhealthy exercise poses double challenge
- Q&A: Good sport/bad sport: How to foster positive participation among youth
Note from the Editor
News from the Centre
Letters
Profile
- Nurturing health at the Peace Ranch
News
- Ontario youth use fewer drugs but continue to binge drink
- Canadians experience poor mental health, but few seek help, survey finds
- Clients on disability support struggle to survive the system
Research Update
- Drinking linked to brain atrophy / link found between maternal smoking and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder / road rage related to psychiatric distress / alcohol intoxication gene found in worms / psychiatric disorders in detained youth / asthma and psychiatric disorders / neuroticism as risk factor for Alzheimer's disease
Reviews
- Better than Prozac: Creating the next generation of psychiatric drugs
Downloaded
The Last Word
- Who do hospitals need - more good doctors or more good lawyers?
Conferences