Psychiatry News

THE courts are not the appropriate place to deal with disputes about termination of pregnancy, the Oireachtas committee considering the draft abortion bill has been told.

Positive Results Reported for Phase I Clinical Trial at UCLA for the Treatment of ADHD in Children Using External Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation Positive Results Reported for Phase I Clinical Trial at UCLA for the Treatment of ADHD in Children Using External Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation , M.D., M.S., principal investigator and Professor of Clinical ... (more)

Dr. Peter F. Buckley, a psychiatrist and Dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, has received the American Psychiatric Association Special Presidential Commendation in recognition of his exemplary leadership and substantial contributions to psychiatry and U.S. academic medicine.

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.

Go to an ER complaining of chest pain and you are whisked away for an EKG and blood tests to check for certain enzymes that indicate a heart attack is in process or has already occurred.

Dr. Dina Panagiotopoulos, a pediatric endocrinologist at BC Children's Hospital, says "second-generation" antipsychotics are being prescribed to two- and three-year-olds for aggression.

As the country awaits two important Supreme Court decisions involving state laws on same-sex marriage , a small but consistent body of research suggests that laws that ban gay marriage - or approve it - can affect the mental health of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans.

The bill's sponsor, Sen. Amanda McGill of Lincoln, said it was necessary to address children's mental health issues at a younger age, before they became too serious to treat.

Do you remember the movie Beauty and the Beast from Disney? The bad guy, Gaston, talked a doctor into declaring that Belle's father was crazy, so that Gaston could have his way with Belle.

On Feb. 17, the North Shore News published a story by Erin McPhee headlined Talk at the Top - Students Rally in Support of Peers with Mental Illness.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.