I'm a reader of www.gizmodo.com, the gadgets weblog.  He updates every
day with news of new gadgets that have been just released or are in
development.  He also follows technology standards as they are adopted
(or not).

Is there a similar website for mental health technology, covering
new/developing medications, treatments, and diagnostic tools?
I doubt it, but if you find one, that's the best-case-scenario answer
I'm looking for.

But let's pretend there isn't one, and let's also pretend that you or
I wanted to start one.
Can you help me find sites to check on a regular basis to keep track
of this information?

Such as...
new and current FDA approval;
pharmacology companies' medication trials;
new medication uses, contraindications, and side effects;
new and current diagnostic technologies;
new and leading edge treatment technologies - including such ideas as
neuromagnetic stimulation, SPECT imaging, new and current uses for MRI
and CAT scans, etc.

websites only - for the purposes of this question I'm not interested
in anything I can't do on the internet.

Hello Katten,
   
   I have collected numerous sites that serve up news on the mental
health field, some better than others. Because mental health is such a
broad topic, it's unlikely you'll find one site to always cover all of
the topics in which you've expressed an interest.

   At the end of my answer are a few websites that allow you to
customize the news delivered to your liking. I've also included a way
to turn this answer into a 'web page' on your own computer, making it
easy to save and link to the sites you find to meet your needs.

========================
Mental Health News Sites
========================

Psychology News
http://www.psycport.com/

NIH
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
NIH also has e-mail news alerts; sign up here:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/tools/listserv.cfm

DBSA
http://www.dbsalliance.org/Headlines.html

Mental Health Info Source, This site is intended primarily for mental
health professionals, but you can certainly glean new information
here:
http://www.mhsource.com/

Counseling Resources, Not daily, but frequent updates
http://counsellingresource.com/sitenews/index.shtml
Also
http://counsellingresource.com/features/index.php

PsychCentral
http://psychcentral.com/news/

Science Daily, Mind and Brain News
http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain.htm

Intelihealth
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/8014.html


National Mental Health Association
http://www.nmha.org/
http://www.nmha.org/newsroom/system/lal.main.cfm
Get e-mail alerts
https://secured.nmha.org/secure/emailservices.cfm

New York Times, Mental Health and Behavior
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/psychology/

Washington Post mental Health News
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/mentalhealth/

Mental Health News
http://www.mhnews.org/

Health Central Mental Health
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/OneNewsCenter.cfm?Center=MentalHealth

MSNBC has a mental health update site
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3034566/

Healthy Place
http://www.healthyplace.com/newsletters/3.07.05.asp
http://www.healthyplace.com/

Tapir Times
http://algy.com/anxiety/mt/

USDHHS Mental Health Information Newsroom
http://www.mentalhealth.org/newsroom/
News Releases
http://www.samhsa.gov/news/index.cfm
Bi-Monthly Newsletter
http://alt.samhsa.gov/SAMHSA_News/index.asp

Medline Plus (Not daily but frequent updates)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mentalhealth.html

Medscape - You?ll have to sign up to access the articles, but it?s free
http://www.medscape.com/psychiatryhome?pagename=psychiatry&WebLogicSession=QkYnDK5GL7P2yYHf8iTQFPGgpOQl0H6n1oNdOSIZ3ph0x4xfp0nt|5179575139690301612/184161393/6/7001/7001/7002/7002/7001/-1


Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities & Addictive Diseases
http://mhddad.dhr.georgia.gov/portal/site

International Society for Mental Health Online
http://www.ismho.org/

Therapy Weekly
http://www.therapyweekly.co.uk/nav?page=therapy.news.story&resource=1809762

Psychology Today
http://cms.psychologytoday.com/pto/home.php

Mental Health Help Net
http://mentalhelp.net/

MentalHealth.org
A collection of the previous month?s news stories
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/profilenews.cfm?pagecode=NENE

Latest news on talking treatments and therapies for mental health problems
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/profilenews.cfm?areacode=mh_talking_treatments_news&pagecode=PMSTTTNE

Select your topic
http://www.connects.org.uk/page.cfm?pageurl=news.cfm&titlebar=1

Bazelon
http://www.bazelon.org/takeaction/alerts/



Blogs:
======

Reliable Blogs may your best source of current news updates.
http://www.neuropsychological.blogspot.com/

Pulse
PULSE is a free service, gathering new and noteworthy Internet
resources for mental health providers, family members of individuals
with mental illness, consumers of mental health services and consumer
advocates. PULSE is researched, edited and designed by Bill Davis.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0108660/
Executive Edition
http://radio.weblogs.com/0108660/categories/executive/

Mental Health Nurse Blog from the UK
http://www.mentalnurse.org.uk/



Pharmaceutical
==============

Clinical Trials
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D001523&recruiting=true

http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/term=%22mental+health%22&recruiting=true

FDA Approvals
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm
Advanced Search Options
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm?fuseaction=Search.Addlsearch_drug_name

Be notified by e-mail
http://www.fda.gov/cder/cdernew/listserv.html

Pharmacist.com
http://www.pharmacist.com/

DrugInfoZone
http://www.druginfozone.org/home/default.aspx

Pharmacy Choice
http://www.pharmacychoice.com/resources/fda.cfm


RPHLink
http://www.rphlink.com/rxnews031405.html
Psychopharmacology Tips
http://www.psyplexus.com/pt/

Free up-to-date articles
http://www.psyplexus.com/plexus/




Additional Information
======================

Forum for mental health professionals
http://www.psyplexus.com/so/


Bloglines
----------
This is a free newsfeed service
http://www.bloglines.com/


Findory
-------
Findory personalizes your newsreading. The more you use it to search
mental health issues, the more it will deliver. Use this only for
mental health issues, and it will eventually only deliver mental
health issues. Use plenty of keywords to get a variety of articles.
http://www.findory.com/

?Findory is cool because it suggest news articles to me based on ones
I?ve already read. I?ve been reading news on it for a couple of months
now, and it?s amazing how relevant the stories are to my interests. In
fact, I started telling my husband how cool it was that there had been
so many medical breakthroughs lately, not even registering the fact
that I was just reading about more of them because Findory had figured
out that I have a weird fascination about medical research. Findory
also saves my entire history, so I can always go back and find that
article that inevitably becomes relevant to a cocktail party
conversation a week later. (social improvement note: people are really
impressed when you e-mail them articles about stuff that was casually
discussed in a drunken conversation)?
http://www.oddwater.com/relevancy/index.php?p=63


Onfolio
---------

This is a nifty program that allows you to create your own
personalized online newsfeed.
Product Tour
http://www.onfolio.com/product/tour.cfm

Download a free trial here:
http://www.onfolio.com/download/index.cfm

Onfolio costs $29.92 USD
http://www.onfolio.com/purchase/


FeedDemon is another similar product
http://www.feeddemon.com/


Using Google News, you can enter just the topic you?re interested in
to get the latest Mental Health news too. Or, click on ?Customize this
page? and add keywords you are interested in, such as ?mental health?
and ?psychotropic medications?
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&gl=us

I typed in Mental Health and got over 15,00 hits.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=mental+health&btnG=Search+News


Newspage allows you to set up a news page to gather the information you want. 
http://www.newspage.com/login.php


One final trick. If you have MS Word,  you can copy this answer, and
paste it into Word, select ?Save As? and ?Save as a Web Page? from the
drop down menu on the Save dialog box. (Be sure to give it a name
you?ll remember and save in a location where you can easily find it)
Then, all the links will be hypertext (clickable) and you only need to
open the Word webpage and click on each link. You can add or delete
sites you don?t care for as well, making yourself a customized Mental
Health Resource page. Once you have the Word Webpage open, you can go
another step farther, and go to FILE, then SEND and click SHORTCUT TO
DESKTOP. Then you?ll have a desktop icon of your personalized Mental
Health Favorites. For free!

There you go! I hope one or more of these links will meet your needs.
If I am off the mark, please do not rate this answer until you have
requested an Answer Clarification. This will enable me to assist you
further, if possible.

Regards, Crabcakes



Search Terms
mental health alerts
mental health blogs
mental health updates
psychotropic drug updates alerts

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Request for Answer Clarification by katten-ga on 27 Mar 2005 12:36 PST

Good answer to the question I asked, but I was hoping for a different answer.

I'm not interested in press releases on every little clinical trial
and published study.  Much of the point of this question, I realize
now, is to find a resource where someone has filtered out all the
baby-step research we hear about every day.  I'm tired of reading
headlines that say "Your diet can cure depression!" for an article
about a study where people ate fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids and
saw a 1.5% change in depressive symptoms.

I'm looking for news about what will become the next BIG steps in
mental health.  MRI imaging is a good example - now we can see some of
what's going on in your head.
30 years ago, we used sedative antipsychotic medications like
Haloperidol and Thorazine.  Then, there was a major breakthrough in
medication, and we started using atypical antipsychotics such as
Clozaril.  It was a quantum leap in pharmacology.  I'm looking to
track similar advancements - what will raise our diagnostics and
treatments by 15%, not 1.5%.

It's likely that more of a focus on hardware and technology in your
answer will help.
I am not at all interested in news about talk-therapy or counselling. 
That's what I do for a living; I already know about that.  Nor am I
interested in policy and law (in this question, anyway)  I'm
interested in sexy science.

Let me put it this way: my clients already know that eating their
vegetables and avoiding caffeine will help them.  But none of us have
any idea what's on the horizon for the next treatment breakthrough a
la atypical antipsychotics.  Will it be SPECT imaging?  Neuromagnetic
stimulation?  Gene therapy?

Thanks - and sorry about the poorly phrased question.

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Clarification of Answer by crabcakes-ga on 27 Mar 2005 12:53 PST

Hi Katten,

 I thought I understood your question fairly well as you originally
posted. (I don't think it was poorly worded ar all!) I did include
technology, etc. in my searches, I just forgot to include it in the
list of terms.

I will gladly search further, but since new technology in mental
health is not an everyday occurrence, I doubt if we'll find a site
dedicated to only that topic. I will certainly search again, and post
as soon as possible.

Regards, Crabcakes

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Request for Answer Clarification by katten-ga on 27 Mar 2005 13:07 PST

thanks!

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Clarification of Answer by crabcakes-ga on 27 Mar 2005 20:28 PST

Hello Katten,

  I have searched extensively for THE site. This is what I have found:



Life Science News
This site has links to Clinical Trials, New Technology, Forums and more.
http://news.biocompare.com/newssection.asp?newscat=4

New Technology Link of Life Science
http://www.biocompare.com/newtech.asp

Neurotransmitter
Today?s page includes ?Neuroimaging in Bipolar Disorder?.
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/newsfeeds.php

http://www.neurotransmitter.net/neuronews.html




This one may also interest you, The National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/




ECT
Today?s topics include:

· Gov. Pataki vetoes ECT reporting bill! 
· New ECT guidelines issued in UK
· New Study: Cognitive impairment after maintenance ECT 
· 1st Person Project - add your ECT story to this history project.
· Did you have ECT in Texas? PLEASE READ! Ongoing investigation.
· Who is on the new Shock Doc Roster?
http://www.ect.org/



Try taking another look at Science Daily. I found this article from a
few weeks ago. They may post as they get tech news.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223122641.htm



Mental Help Net
This site has current news links along the right hand column.
http://mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=news&id=71425&cn=5&PHPSESSID=48a4fda6280377546375ea22339f5efe


The Royal College of Psychiatrists has a Google powered search that is
simple to use. Tick off ?Mental Health? and enter ?technology? in the
search box. I gathered only 4 returns.
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/search.htm



Similar to Google Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Health/Mental_Health/


You may have to consider setting up an RSS newsfeed for yourself, or
configure one of the sites in the original answer. Tedious, perhaps,
to set up, but once the task is done, it?s done!
http://cognews.com/rssfeed_html


Science Daily Newsfeed
http://www.sciencedaily.com/subscribe/newsfeed.htm


MedicineNet RSS feeds
http://www.medicinenet.com/rss/article.htm


MedWire RSS
http://www.medwire.md/newsindex.aspx



GNIF Brain Blogger
New updates daily. 
http://www.brainblogger.com/
?Read a blog that reviews the latest news in neuroscience, psychiatry,
and neurology from multidimensional -- biological, psychological, and
sociological -- perspectives.?
http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317914/us53774/us330851/us331225/us936571/

 If what I have posted in the clarification does not meet your needs,
please let me know via another Answer Clarification. I do believe it
would have been easier to create our own site!

Regards, Crabcakes

Thanks!