Can a terminally ill person want to hasten death and be mentally competent?
...t many terminally ill people may also suffer froma psychiatric disorder, such as depression, the Act bars suicide...of the attending physician, may be sufferingfrom a psychiatric or psychological disorder which may impair judgement. With this legislation, psychologists a...For heart disease patients, depression takes heavy toll
...d of the study. "There has been some debate in the psychiatric literature about whether allminor depression merits treatment," says Sullivan. "Our study suggests thatminor depression may be particularly important in patients who have a concurrentmedical illness." The researchers followed 157 patients with newly ...Phobias deter chronically ill from seeking regular treatment
...ientists shows. Phobic disorder topped the list of psychiatric conditions diagnosed among thosewithout ongoing ca...cross 13 years andfound that 44 percent had active psychiatric disorders. The researchers concluded that these psychiatric disorders may keep many personswith chro...Hormone involved in reproduction may have role in the maintenance of relationships
...work on oxytocin will guide future research on the psychiatric conditionsof men and women. "Our results provide the groundwork for further studies looking at the wayhormones may be affecting human attachment," said Turner. "We know thatoxytocin is one of the hormones that can facilitate bonding in other animals...More than half of homeless children have symptoms of depression
... community,parent-child and psychiatric nursing at Ohio State University. "The homeless children in our study had a significantlyincreased risk of depression." Children account for approximately 38 percent of the ...Chronic, heavy cocaine use associated with long-lasting impaired function
...telligence. None had any current or pasthistory of psychiatric disorder. The cocaine users were interviewed about how long they had been using cocaine,how many times per week they used it, and their weekly intake in grams. Theywere admitted to the NIDA Clinical Inpatient Research Unit, where they remaineddrug f...Bullies need as much help as their victims
...ey) Two studies in this week's BMJ report on the psychiatric effects of bullying and both find that children wh...ession and suicide. They stress that the need for psychiatric intervention should be considered not only for the victims of bullying but also for the bullies. Bul...Better psychiatric support needed for children who lose a parent
...ved children and the surviving parents showed more psychiatric difficulties than the team had expected. Their fi...essionals in identifying those families in need of psychiatric support and referring them to the appropriate services....Scottish study shows lack of mental health service for children entering care
...erable proportion of young children have a serious psychiatric disorder at the time they enter local authority ca...have previously been voiced about the high rate of psychiatric disorders among children in the care system, say the authors, but until now, little has been known a...Talk with the experts: The American Psychiatric Association's 1999 Fall Components Meeting
...Washington , DC Over 1,000 of the nation's leading psychiatric experts will be attendingcommittee meetings of th...ay,September 25. To schedule an interview with a psychiatric expert on one of the issues listedbelow, or to find out about additional issues, please call or ema...UF researchers show magnetic stimulation may be a safe alternative to shock therapy
...sed as a treatment for other types ofneurologic or psychiatric problems. It also could benefit severely depressedpatients earlier in the course of their illness. "Traditionally, shock therapy is reserved for patients who are suicidal or whohave failed multiple medication treatments, so they may go through years ...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
... Theme: identify early childhood and lifetime psychiatric factors thatdetermine smoking initiation, dependence, use patterns, cessation, and responseto cessation treatment; The University of California at Irvine Principal Investigator: Frances M. Leslie, Ph.D. Theme: identif...New understanding of a key control mechanism in the brain
...dictions. It also plays a role in a wide range of psychiatric disorders, such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorders, and schizophrenia. In the past, researchers basically thought that I-neurons just sprayed an inhibitory neurotransmitter called GABA onto their neighbors. But this did not explain how th...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...psychiatrists who treat patients with a variety of psychiatric disorders to investigate the genetic component of mental illnesses. "At this time, diagnosis of psychiatric disorders is as superficial as, say, fever," said Dr. Ranga Krishnan, chairman of Duke's department ...Promising new research on schizophrenia causes
...r disorder with psychosis, and individuals with no psychiatric abnormalities. They correctly identified those that came from psychotic patients by testing for levels of reelin. Controls in the experiment ruled out the possibility that the decrease in reelin was due to drugs the individuals had taken to treat the...Study to assess heart effects of depression drugs during stress
...individuals with no current or past history of any psychiatric disorder and (2) individuals currently under treat... subjects will be otherwise medically healthy. A psychiatric examination will rule out other mental disorders. "We're trying to verify that the people who are de...Freeing up the ER for real emergencies
...f social workers, emergency and family physicians, psychiatric nurses and community care providers, the same patients made a total of only 175 visits in the year after the program was implemented....Rush conducts nationwide study to find genetic markers for depression
...stitutes of Mental Health has launched the largest psychiatric genetic study ever attempted to investigate how recurrent depression is passed along through families. While depression is known to be genetically transmitted, discovery of the specific genetic sequence would offer new hope for more accurate diagnos...Care of mentally ill prisoners well below NHS standards
...s in charge of inpatients had completed specialist psychiatric training. Most prisons kept patients unlocked for around 3.5 hours a day rather than the 12 hours required by current prison service standards. Therapeutic activity was limited, and periods of exclusion were lengthy, averaging 50 hours. The authors......ole in who gets the disorder. "We've known OCDas a psychiatric condition for more than a century," says psychiatristGerald Nestadt, M.D., who led the research team, "But doubts have remainedabout the hereditary nature." "There is surely some environmental aspect to OCD," says Nestadt. "If yourmother is c...