Mental health disorders the leading cause of disease burden for females
Mental health and substance abuse disorders are the leading cause of disease burden among U.S. females and the fourth-leading cause for males, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Mental... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Does medical marijuana work for PTSD, other psychiatric indications?
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – There’s a rapidly growing list of states that have approved marijuana for medical use, but that does not mean that there’s also an expanding body of science to support marijuana’s... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Study spotlights link between mental illness, gun-related suicide
Enacting risk-based gun removal laws and prohibiting guns from people involuntarily detained in short-term psychiatric hospitalization may have a positive impact on gun-related suicide and violent... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Peter Kramer returns to his role in defending antidepressants in ‘Ordinarily Well’
With his 1993 landmark book, “Listening to Prozac,” psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer became one of the most famous psychiatrists in America – second perhaps only to the fictional Frasier Crane of... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Give serious thought before starting antipsychotics in elders
The page filled me with dread: “Your elderly patient is confused, getting out of bed, and threw her entire dinner tray at a nurse just now.” Because this morning my patient was polite and... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Fewer adults with psychological distress getting mental health care
The percentage of adults with psychological distress who saw or spoke with a mental health professional has gone down every year since 2012, according to the National Center for Heath Statistics.... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Less education tied to more anxiety
Adults with less than a high school education are more than twice as likely as are those with high school degrees to have reported an anxiety disorder in the past year, according to the National... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Targeting vagal activity could improve breast cancer survival
ATLANTA – Vagal activity predicts survival in patients with metastatic or recurrent breast cancer, a study showed.
The findings are intriguing, given that vagal activity is modifiable, according to... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Book offers even-handed, scholarly treatment of AA
Several years ago, the British psychoanalyst Enid Balint suggested that people might not necessarily emerge from a group experience less neurotic or psychotic, but invariably, they were more... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Midlife interventions help preserve later cognitive function
Midlife interventions including physical activity, hypertension control, and maintaining healthy HDL cholesterol may ward off later cognitive decline, reported Cassandra Szoeke, Ph.D., of the Centre... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Family psychiatry considers key issues
These are exciting times for family psychiatry. In this column, I would like to sum up some of the key themes from the recent American Psychiatric Association meeting in Atlanta and how family fits... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Methylphenidate tied to greater risk of arrhythmia in children, adolescents
Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who are prescribed methylphenidate to manage their conditions stand at a higher risk for arrhythmia and other, more serious,... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Integrated care effective in first-episode psychosis
ATLANTA – Increasingly, data support taking an integrated approach to care in the intervention of first-episode psychosis.
But what are the key components of such treatment?
Dr. Charles Schulz,... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Probuphine implant predicted to ease buprenorphine maintenance
Probuphine, a subdermal buprenorphine implant <a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm503719.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Experts discuss progress in schizophrenia treatment
ATLANTA – Over the last 20 years, there have been many signs of progress in treating schizophrenia, two experts said at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
In this video, Dr.... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
