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Blog Post Results (1-20 of 1994)
FILTER RESULTS ►Cue The Black Helicopters
I don't want to cut short any discussion on my last couple involuntary treatment posts, but I wanted to let people know we've got a new Shrink Rap News column up over on Clinical Psychiatry News. My titles over there tend to run on the...Show More Summary
Group-Based Child Care Appears To Be Associated With Reduced Risk For Emotional Problems In Children
Regulated group-based child care appears to be associated with reduced risk for emotional problems among children of mothers with maternal depressive symptoms, according to a study published Online First by JAMA Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication. Show More Summary
Prenatal Exposure To Maternal Cigarette Smoking Associated With Altered Reward Processing And Anticipation
JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights Whether adolescents with prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking differ from their nonexposed peers in the response part of their brain to the anticipation or the receipt of a reward was examined in a study by Kathrin U. Show More Summary
Racial And Ethnic Disparities Found In Gastroenterology, Psychiatry Or Psychology Care For Children With Autism
A study from investigators at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) found that African-American or Hispanic children diagnosed with autism were significantly less likely than white children to have received subspecialty care or procedures related to conditions that often accompany autism spectrum disorders...
PROFESSOR NEMEROFF GOES TO LONDON
THREE STRIKES AND … Professor Charles Nemeroff is being honored today in London. He will deliver a high profile lecture at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, a component of The University of London. IoP and its associated Maudsley Hospital have long been at the forefront of psychiatric research in Britain. Show More Summary
Minority children with autism lack access to specialists
Editor's Note: Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh is a resident psychiatrist at Emory University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. African-American and Hispanic children are far less likely to be seen by specialists - for autism, but also other medical conditions - and also less likely to receive specialized medical tests than their white peers, according to […]
Reflection after attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
I’m two weeks into my psychiatry clerkship, sitting quietly in the back of a crowded Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and watching a middle-aged man discuss his past struggles with alcoholism. He starts with his difficult childhood, describing his abusive father. When he was eleven years old, his parents divorced. Soon after, he resorted to alcohol as an escape [...]
Brain Scans Predict Treatment Outcome in Depression Patients
A biomarker could cut the trial-and-error of finding a patient’s best therapy. A brain scan could one day help doctors prescribe the best treatment to patients with major depressive disorder. In JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday, researchers describe how a PET scan can reveal whether a patient will respond better to drugs or cognitive behavior therapy. Show More Summary
Tarnished Image? Psychiatrists Square Off Over A Nemeroff Lecture
For the second time in little more than a year, Charles Nemeroff is the subject of protest by other psychiatrists. The latest instance involves an invitation by the Institute of Psychiatry, the leading center in the UK for psychiatric...Show More Summary
Is The Ability To Extinguish Fear Impaired By Antidepressants?
An interesting new report of animal research published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly...Show More Summary
So Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Called Us to Complain …
There are two sides to almost every story, and sometimes we publish both of them. That’s true even for science. When the new edition of psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual came out, Slate ran stories criticizing it and praising it. Show More Summary
Can This App Convince You To Stop Smoking (And Make Better Decisions)?
Craving To Quit hopes to teach its users a little bit of mindfulness, which might help them on their quest to end addiction. Judson Brewer, a psychiatry professor at Yale, claims to have located a "unique brain region that is activated...Show More Summary
Computer Games May Help Forensic Psychiatry Patients
Brain-training computer games may help restore memory and competency to forensic psychiatry patients in state mental hospitals, researchers say. Computer software designed to improve memory and thinking may be used with psychotherapy, medication and other approaches to help these patients, considered among the most severely mentally ill, said Dr. Show More Summary
Mice give new clues to origins of OCD
Columbia Psychiatry researchers have identified what they think may be a mechanism underlying the development of compulsive behaviors. The finding suggests possible approaches to treating or preventing certain characteristics of OCD. read more
Do antidepressants impair the ability to extinguish fear?
An interesting new report of animal research published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly...Show More Summary
Ultra High-Risk Patients With Schizophrenia At Long-Term Risk For Psychotic Disorder
JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights Ultra high-risk (UHR) patients with schizophrenia appear to be at long-term risk for psychotic disorder, with the highest risk during the first two years after entry to a specialist clinic according to a study by Barnaby Nelson, Ph.D., of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Show More Summary
Altered Neural Circuitry May Lead to Anorexia and Bulimia
A landmark study, with first author Tyson Oberndorfer, MD, and led by Walter H. Kaye, MD, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, suggests that the altered function of neural circuitry contributes to restricted eating in anorexia and overeating in bulimia. Show More Summary
2013-05-31 Spike activity
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: A video of a brain surgery patient playing guitar during the procedure. Theatre nurse on drums. The Guardian has an excellent piece on ‘appreciating the politics of psychiatry’. Hints of Viennese wood and iodine with a curiously bitter aftertaste. “Yesterday, I read a paper […]
How the DSM-5 Got Grief, Bereavement Right
One of the charges leveled against psychiatry’s diagnostic categories is that they are often “politically motivated.” If that were true, the framers of the DSM-5 probably would have retained the so-called “bereavement exclusion” — a DSM-IV rule that instructed clinicians not to diagnose major depressive disorder (MDD) after the recent death of a loved one [...]
Journalistic generalization disorder
On Monday, David Brooks weighed in on the debate about the merits of the latest edition of the DSM-5, psychiatry's primary diagnostic manual for mental disorders. As often happens when a columnist parachutes into a complicated scientific subject, he made a muddy topic even muddier with superficial generalizations. Show More Summary
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