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2 hrs ago | Psychology Today

The Life Threatening Toll of Stress

The World Health Organization estimates that by 2020 heart disease and depression will be the number one and number two leading causes of disability in developed countries.

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Related Topix: Depression, Health, Heart Disease, Medicine, Cardiology

6 hrs ago | The Daily Beast

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Eight people remain hospitalized-three in critical condition-after two commuter trains carrying more than 700 people collided Friday night, according to Connecticut Governor Malloy.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Wedding

10 hrs ago | ABC News

Psychiatry bible receives a makeover

The $25 million revision happens only once in a generation and comes after nearly two decades of debate, deliberation and change in clinical practice.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Autism, Health

12 hrs ago | The Guardian

New US manual for diagnosing mental disorders published

The field of mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Autism

19 hrs ago | New Urban Legends

Work of Fiction

Leon Eisenberg, the father of ADHD, is quoted as saying in Der Spiegel that "ADHD is a fictitious disease" . Origins: Dr.

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23 hrs ago | RTE.ie

Medical Council seeks changes to abortion bill

Medical Council President Professor Kieran Murphy has told the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children that the council is seeking changes to the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013.

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Related Topix: Abortion, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Fri May 17, 2013

Independent.ie

Psychiatrists won't use 'hocus-pocus' with suicidal pregnant women, says health chief

PSYCHIATRISTS who will be assessing a suicidal pregnant woman seeking an abortion will not be resorting to a form of "hocus pocus" to determine if she is going to take her own life, the country's Chief Medical Officer said today.

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Related Topix: Medicine

New Scientist

Suicidal behaviour is a disease, psychiatrists argue

As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood disorder.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Suicide, Genetics, Pharmacology, Science / Technology

OUPblog

American psychiatry is morally challenged

The fundamental problem with American psychiatry is American psychiatrists. It seems every few months there's fresh news about some well-known academic psychiatrist paid boatloads to endorse a new treatment that doesn't work-or worse-causes harm.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Canada.com

Infighting, boycotts, resignations: Psychiatry faces another crisis of confidence

In the early 1970s, psychologist David Rosenhan set out to answer a simple question: Can psychiatrists tell the sane from the insane? Rosenhan and seven other perfectly rational "pseudopatients" went to a dozen U.S. hospitals complaining that they were hearing voices.

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OUPblog

Personality disorders in DSM-5

Those of us in the mental health professions anxiously await the release of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders .

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Crikey

From anxiety to Asperger's, how the DSM is redefining disorders

The "bible" for mental health disorders is getting a much-needed update. It could reshape diagnosis and treatment for many sufferers, and not everyone is happy, writes Wes Mountain at The Citizen .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Autism

Russia Taday

Concussion epidemic linked to underreported US military suicide - study

New research suggests a link between concussions and suicide in the US military, two frighteningly common issues that the Armed Forces have struggled to explain and curtail since rates started soaring 12 years ago.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Life, Veteran Affairs, Medicine

Thu May 16, 2013

The Miami Herald

Child mental health disorders rising, cost society $247 billion annually

Up to one in five American youngsters – some 7 million to 12 million by one estimate – experience a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report billed as the first comprehensive look at the mental health status of American children.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Health

National Public Radio

Why Is Psychiatry's New Manual So Much Like The Old One?

Despite significant advances in neurology and imaging, researchers still don't have simple lab tests for diagnosing patients with mental disorders.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Columbia University, Genetics, UC San Francisco, Health, Breast Cancer

Psychology Today

Top 3 Ways Someone Chooses a Drug Rehab

Creative Care is interested in how people make their decision when choosing a rehab.

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Wed May 15, 2013

EurekAlert!

Springer to collaborate with the Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders

Springer and the Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders have agreed to a five-year collaboration to publish the quarterly journal Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity , starting in 2013 with Volume 18.

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Dr. Deborah Serani

How To Find A Good Psychotherapist

It's a difficult, yet brave and courageous moment when someone makes the decision to pursue mental health therapy.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Psychology, Science

CTV

Is grief a mental illness? Critics call out changes in revised DSM guidebook

In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one's death can be considered major depression.

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NEWS.com.au

Grief is still natural, not a disorder

THE people who define mental illnesses have bowed to pressure and kept grief out of their diagnostic manual, according to an Australian psychiatrist.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Grief, Medicine