Psychiatry and Art
Freud famously quipped: “The creative writer cannot evade the psychiatrist nor the psychiatrist the creative writer.” (Art credit shutterstock) (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Shakespeare and Psychiatry: A Personal Meditation
Shakespeare's understanding of the human condition miraculously transcends his culture, time, and place. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Introduction: Why Does Psychiatry Need the Humanities?
Bringing the arts and humanities to psychiatry requires bringing these areas of study into our education, our research and our practice models. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
New Insights Into the Effects of Alcohol on the Brain
What are the latest findings on acute and chronic effects of alcohol on the human brain? Here to discuss the latest research is psychiatrist and neuroscientist Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
A Physician's Guide to Using Digital Technology
Digital technology provides many benefits to clinical practice but only if you know how to avoid the associated pitfalls. This slideshow provides easily accessible information for best practices for using e-mail, text messaging, search engines, blogs, etc. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Prison or Treatment for the Mentally Ill
After each violent tragedy, politicians mourn and harrumph, but they wind up buckling under pressure from the NRA, fiscal constraints, and the prison and gun lobbies. Repeated dramatic events can shake the complacency and cowardice of a stalemated Congress and state legislatures. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Alcoholism Research and Neuroimaging: Implications for Treatment
Advances in basic molecular research of alcoholism await translation into important new clinical insights. Here to shed some light in this area is John Matochik, PhD, Program Director in the Division of Neuroscience and Behavior at NIAAA. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Major University Establishes New LGBT Health Center
Research efforts for LGBT patients include creating innovative medical and mental health services that lead to the training of students and practitioners and promote the development of outreach strategies specific to today’s critical needs. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Discussion of the Phenomenon of Unknown Family Members
The discovery of an unknown family member can bring about joy or grief, and raise many clinical questions about the psychodynamics that are at play within families. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Psychology of Guns: 12 Steps Toward More Safety
It is yet unclear whether the overwhelming shock of Newtown will galvanize action not only to prevent future mass murderers, but also to finally reduce the public health and mental health risks of more chronic, common, and routine gun violence in America. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Psychiatric Comorbidities
This slide show series provides a quick look at the salient features associated with some of the most frequent psychiatric comorbidities including fibromyalgia, movement disorders, and migraine. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Medicalization of Grief: What We Can Learn From 19th-Century Nervousness
Concerns are raised about DSM-5 revisions in the definition of depression. Many worry that eliminating the bereavement exception in the guidelines for the diagnosis of major depressive disorder represents a dangerous move. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Yet Another Way the Medically Ill Will Be Misdiagnosed as Mentally Disordered
DSM-5 has moved a section called “Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition (PFAMC) from the of the book (where it is not a mental disorder) to front and center in the chapter on Somatic Symptom Disorders (where now it will be a mental disorder). (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - February 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
New Research: Mood Disorders
A a recent symposium brought together some of the nation’s leading experts to talk about promising advances in psychiatry and to address areas where progress has faltered. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - February 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Understanding Astrocytes Holds Promise for Rapid Antidepressant Action
Astrocytic signaling to adenosine receptors results in the robust reduction of depressive-like behaviors associated with sleep deprivation, according to researchers. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - February 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
