The International Reaction to DSM-5
The intense level of international interest in DSM-5 is a great surprise. Although DSM has become a research standard around the world, it is rarely used by clinicians outside the US and therefore poses a much lesser threat to their patients. So why all the prominent media coverage in countries outside of the US? (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychiatry and the Myth of “Medicalization”
The ethical aim of psychiatry is the relief of suffering and incapacity. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Lighting a Candle in Newtown
Part of the mission of the Sandy Hook Promise is to have an open dialogue on all of the relevant issues, and to include various and opposing views. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
NOAHS Study: Testing Vascular Hypothesis of Post-CABG depression
Dr Hochang Lee discusses the latest research in the Neuropsychiatric Outcomes After Heart Surgery study and post-coronary artery bypass graft depression. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Shared Decision Making in the Treatment of Psychosis
Antipsychotics have repeatedly been demonstrated to improve positive psychotic symptoms. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Obama Plan—Spending Mental Health Money in all the Wrong Places
Money should not be wasted on futile preventive programs to detect mental health problems that don't yet exist. Instead, resources should be invested where there is desperate need—to properly treat and decently house psychiatric patients who are now shamefully neglected. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Law Suit Filed Against Anthem for Discrimination, Violating Federal Law
Plaintiffs in this lawsuit claim that CPT coding policy has resulted in decreased reimbursement for psychiatrists, who will now receive 20% less for evaluation and management services than what Anthem pays other physicians. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Lamotrigine for Major Depressive Disorder Is Inappropriate
On the basis of currently available evidence, clinicians are urged to not prescribe lamotrigine for Major Depressive Disorder. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Never Quite as It Seems: An Apparently Chance Association May Explain a Lot About Schizophrenia
How frequently do you find yourself prescribing antibiotics for inpatients with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders during hospitalization? (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Confidentiality and the Family: 5 Guidelines for Better Outcomes
Family involvement is often misunderstood as being a hindrance to individuation, when in fact family-oriented interventions can improve patient functioning, agency, and autonomy. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Letter to a Foreign Psychiatrist
Being foreign can be an advantage. Only an outsider sees assumptions that insiders take to be self-evident. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychosocial Assessment and Treatment of Bariatric Patients
This book draws together the entire spectrum of the relevant psychosocial dimensions and data necessary to adequately assist in the evaluation and treatment of patients who may be candidates for bariatric surgery. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychiatric Liability: A French Psychiatrist Sentenced After a Murder Committed by Her Patient
On December 18, 2012, French psychiatrist Daniele Canarelli, age 58, received a 1-year suspended prison sentence by the Criminal Court of Marseille. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Mini-Quiz: Electroconvulsive Therapy
Periprocedural advancements, including liberalization of concomitant and pre-treatment medications, add to the comfort and tolerability of ECT, but adverse effects do exist. More in this quiz. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
When a Psychiatrist Is Given a Prison Sentence After a Patient Commits a Crime: Comments on a Disconcerting Case
American psychiatrists might be able to sympathize in the wake of recent mass tragedies leading to new, hastily conceived laws that directly impinge on psychiatric practice, confidentiality, and duty to protect third parties. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
