Majority of cigarettes in the US smoked by nicotine-dependent or psychiatrically ill persons
...ng to background information in the article. Among psychiatric outpatients and inpatients, studies have found ele...ey discovered higher smoking rates in persons with psychiatric disorders than those without. Bridget F. Grant, Ph.D., Ph.D., from the National Institute on Alcoho...Gambling among adolescents and young adults associated with psychiatric problems
...an nongamblers to have substance use disorders and psychiatric problems, according to an article in the November ...ssociated with substance use problems, depression, psychiatric treatment, poor health, arrest and incarceration, the article states. Fifty percent to 90 percent o...Electroconvulsive therapy improves mood, quality of life
...cts of depression were confirmed by use of several psychiatric measuring scales, some answered by the patients and some by clinicians. These tests were completed before and immediately after ECT and again at two weeks and four weeks after ECT. McCall said that 66 percent of the patients showed improvement after...New brain cells develop during alcohol abstinence, UNC study shows
... memory - in animals and humans - and is linked to psychiatric disorders, particularly depression. "When used in excess, alcohol damages brain structure and function. Alcoholics have impairments in the ability to reason, plan or remember," said Crews, also professor of pharmacology and psychiatry in UNC's School...Study shows inadequate psychiatric care in assisted living facilities
...yland reveal high prevalence of dementia and other psychiatric disorders, but a lack of recognition and treatment... that 26.3% of residents were suffering from other psychiatric disorders, most commonly depression and anxiety, with similarly low rates of treatment. "Dementia...Northwestern Memorial Hospital testing new procedure for patients with major depression
...and for research into a number of neurological and psychiatric conditions. The Northwestern research study will be open to participants who are 18 to 70 years old, have been diagnosed with major depression as defined by the DSM-IV and have demonstrated resistance to antidepressant medications. Individuals who...Adolescent gamblers often suffer psychiatric problems
...gin to gamble, the more likely they are to develop psychiatric and substance use problems, according to a study b...-onset adult, and adult-onset gamblers in terms of psychiatric health and gambling attitudes and behaviors. According to the researchers, about 68 percent of the U...Social supports lessen effects of maltreatment on children vulnerable to depression
...e is maltreatment and a genetic predisposition for psychiatric illness." ...Insomnia poorly understood by medical profession
...ssessment. Identification and treatment of primary psychiatric disorders, medical conditions, circadian disorders, or specific physiological sleep disorders--eg, sleep apnoea and periodic limb movement disorder--are essential steps in management of insomnia. The authors discuss how drug treatments are common...Canadian researchers to develop 'smart drug' to repair psychiatric disorders
...pable of targeting specific brain cells to control psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia may be ...ant change in decades to medications used to treat psychiatric disorders, says neuroscientist and team leader Yu Tian Wang, a UBC professor of Medicine and BRC mem...Imaging tool may help physicians diagnose bipolar disorder
...people with and without bipolar disorder. "The psychiatric community clearly needs a tool to help diagnose bipolar disorder," said John D. Port, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology and consultant at the Mayo Clinic. "We are hopeful that very high-field MR spectroscopy will prove helpful by identify...Is the internet encouraging suicide pacts?
...y spouses, most of them childless. About half have psychiatric disorders and a third have physical illnesses. An increasing number of websites graphically describe suicide methods, including details of doses of medication that would be fatal in overdose. Such websites can perhaps trigger suicidal behaviour in pr...Immigration & psychiatric disorders
...he United States have a higher risk for developing psychiatric disorders than their foreign-born counterparts who have immigrated to the United States. The psychiatric disorders included alcohol and drug use disorders, major depression, dysthymia, mania, hypomania, pa...NYU Child Study Center raises a record $3.4 million at Seventh Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
...ps program. "Having a child with a mental or psychiatric disorder is the last stigma. We can say the word ... many of us shy away when the topic comes to child psychiatric disorders like depression," said Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., Director of the NYU Child Study Center. ...Surprise! Cells have second source of phosphate
... of phosphate could be important in neurologic and psychiatric illnesses, and perhaps in cancer as well," says Solomon Snyder, M.D., professor and director of neuroscience, one of the departments in Johns Hopkins' Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. "Nobody in a million years would have thought there was an...Prentiss Foundation awards $5 million to University Hospitals
...sity Hospitals of Cleveland to create an inpatient psychiatric unit, including a crisis management team, for chil...he nation. We believe that by adding an inpatient psychiatric facility, including a crisis team, at Rainbow, to the already nationally acclaimed psychiatry progra...Web-based tool to help clinicians make schizophrenia treatment decisions
...op new Web-based tools to improve the treatment of psychiatric disorders. In 2000, Meltzer joined in their efforts and organized a group to develop the algorithms for schizophrenia treatment. "The idea was that we would come up with evidence-based medicine for schizophrenia, providing clinicians with a resource...Penn professor earns 2004 award from the American College of Psychiatrists
...om mood disorders. Mood disorders encompass those psychiatric disorders in which a disturbance of mood is the predominant feature, including depressive, dysthymic and bipolar disorders. These disorders affect millions of people throughout the world, can be life threatening, and result in considerable suffering...Depression tied to higher risk of heart disease death
...questionnaires are easier, faster and cheaper than psychiatric interviews," van Melle says. In their study, van Melle and colleagues also noticed a stronger link between depression and higher risk of death in studies published before 1992. "It may be possible that improvements in cardiac care for hospitalized a...... potential applications in numerous neurologic and psychiatric conditions that arise from abnormal control of glutamate." A large, multi-center clinical trial planned for the spring will help determine the best dose of and schedule for ceftriaxone in people with ALS, and will measure whether the known risks of l...