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The importance of diet with antipsychotic medication: Q&A with new investigator Dr. David Wright
For people suffering from severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, antipsychotic drugs can help reduce a number of psychotic symptoms, such as paranoia, delusions and hallucinations. Increasingly, these medications are being used off-label to treat bipolar disorder, anxiety or severe irritability, even amongst children and adolescents. Unfortunately, these drugs can have harmful metabolic side effects…
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Nudge interventions can promote the purchase of fruits & vegetables
A healthy diet complete with plenty of fruits and vegetables is an important contributor to reaching and maintaining a healthy body weight. It is also protective against many chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.
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Outstanding Achievement Award by a Doctoral Student: Punit Virk
When Punit Virk was an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta, one of the biggest difficulties he found was knowing where to go for mental health support.
