Comments on: Saturday Sanity: Drugs And Government Issues http://www.blisstree.com/articles/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues-234/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:16:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader http://www.blisstree.com/articles/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues-234/comment-page-1/#comment-103026 Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:35:26 +0000 http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/2008/04/05/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues/#comment-103026 Hey Les, would you be interested in sharing your research here? I could give you a guest post spot here at Mental Health Notes one day and you could write an article/post on what you've learned through your research. Hey Les, would you be interested in sharing your research here? I could give you a guest post spot here at Mental Health Notes one day and you could write an article/post on what you’ve learned through your research.

]]> By: Monday, April 7th News | The Anxiety Report http://www.blisstree.com/articles/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues-234/comment-page-1/#comment-103017 Monday, April 7th News | The Anxiety Report Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:01:08 +0000 http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/2008/04/05/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues/#comment-103017 [...] over at her Mental Health Notes, blog for b5media, has posted an article Saturday Sanity: Drugs And Government Issues. Alicia’s site is always worth checking [...] [...] over at her Mental Health Notes, blog for b5media, has posted an article Saturday Sanity: Drugs And Government Issues. Alicia’s site is always worth checking [...]

]]> By: Les http://www.blisstree.com/articles/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues-234/comment-page-1/#comment-103016 Les Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:06:20 +0000 http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/2008/04/05/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues/#comment-103016 Alicia, I have done my own research on the role of paternal age and schizophrenia and autism and it overwhelmingly points to a strong connection in non-familial cases. A public health warning to father before 35 is well overdue. There are studies from all over the world pointing to the same finding and Alzheimer's is also in this picture. It is frustrating that maternal age or maternal behavior gets the press in disorders. Alicia,
I have done my own research on the role of paternal age and schizophrenia and autism and it overwhelmingly points to a strong connection in non-familial cases. A public health warning to father before 35 is well overdue. There are studies from all over the world pointing to the same finding and Alzheimer’s is also in this picture. It is frustrating that maternal age or maternal behavior gets the press in disorders.

]]> By: Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader http://www.blisstree.com/articles/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues-234/comment-page-1/#comment-103015 Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:39:01 +0000 http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/2008/04/05/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues/#comment-103015 <B>Les</B>: As I'm not a NAMI employee (just the Affiliate Leader for my area's NAMI affiliation), I won't take it upon myself to speak for their employees and what they have or haven't done. I can, however, point you in the direction of an article that NAMI linked to on their Web site in the past, discussing autism in relation to parental age. The article, <a HREF="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5768623" rel="nofollow">Father's Age May Play Role in Autism Risk</A>, was posted on www.npr.org in 2006 and linked at NAMI's official Web site from <a HREF="http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?section=Search&Template=Search/SearchDisplay.cfm" rel="nofollow">here</A>. Hopefully that helps in some way? To find answers about NAMI and information they provide (as well as their mission regarding education and research), you'd definitely have more luck contacting your state's NAMI office and speaking with an employee. I don't know where you live, but you can find contact information for your state's NAMI by clicking <a HREF="http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Your_Local_NAMI&Template=/CustomSource/AffiliateFinder.cfm" rel="nofollow">HERE</A>. And, as a side note, I'm not sure if you're referring to anything I've linked to in this post specifically, or if this post merely sparked your question, but the only schizophrenia-related news link in this post deals with research and researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York - not NAMI. However, the article does mention a quote from Dr. Thomas Insel, the head of the <a HREF="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/" rel="nofollow">National Institute of Mental Health</A> (NIMH), so you may want to contact them, too. Hope that helps! Les: As I’m not a NAMI employee (just the Affiliate Leader for my area’s NAMI affiliation), I won’t take it upon myself to speak for their employees and what they have or haven’t done. I can, however, point you in the direction of an article that NAMI linked to on their Web site in the past, discussing autism in relation to parental age. The article, Father’s Age May Play Role in Autism Risk, was posted on http://www.npr.org in 2006 and linked at NAMI’s official Web site from here. Hopefully that helps in some way?

To find answers about NAMI and information they provide (as well as their mission regarding education and research), you’d definitely have more luck contacting your state’s NAMI office and speaking with an employee. I don’t know where you live, but you can find contact information for your state’s NAMI by clicking HERE.

And, as a side note, I’m not sure if you’re referring to anything I’ve linked to in this post specifically, or if this post merely sparked your question, but the only schizophrenia-related news link in this post deals with research and researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York – not NAMI. However, the article does mention a quote from Dr. Thomas Insel, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), so you may want to contact them, too.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Les http://www.blisstree.com/articles/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues-234/comment-page-1/#comment-103014 Les Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:19:51 +0000 http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/2008/04/05/saturday-sanity-drugs-and-government-issues/#comment-103014 Why doesn't NAMI warn about the paternal age effect in schizophrenia and autism? It has been researched and reported on for over 50 years? Why doesn’t NAMI warn about the paternal age effect in schizophrenia and autism? It has been researched and reported on for over 50 years?

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