In December, 17 law enforcement officers from Monroe and 15 from Lake Charles graduated from the first Louisiana Crisis Intervention Team trainings.

A gene variation that helps people live into their 90s and beyond also protects their memories and ability to think and learn new information, according to a study published in the December 26, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Governor George E. Pataki today signed legislation to enact Timothy's
Law, which will require insurance companies to provide health insurance coverage for individuals with mental illnesses.

Using innovative brain-scan technology UCLA researchers have shown that the abnormal brain protein deposits that define Alzheimer's disease can be detected in mild cognitive impairment - a condition that increases the risk for developing Alzheimer's and affects 15 to 20 million Americans. The study will be published in the Dec. 21 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have found higher rates of schizophrenia and other psychoses in certain ethnic minority groups and that parental separation in childhood is associated with an increased risk of developing later psychosis.