Cancer patients with past mood disorders most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder
...ot at greater rates than other psychiatric problems such as depression," ... Association. PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessi...Are people with mental illness more violent than other people?
...o contradicts the theory that the closing of large psychiatric institutions over the past 30 years have meant that a greater proportion of societal violence is attributable to those with mental disorder. Fear and stigma of mentally ill people have been exaggerated by high profile and occasionally sensationalist ...9/11 has important lessons for mental health workers
...who will discuss international perspectives on the psychiatric responses to terrorism; and Rachel Yehuda, Director of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The UC Davis symposium is designed for physicians and psychiatrists, as well as social workers, marriage and family...UT Southwestern researcher studies causes, treatment of bipolar disease coupled with drug abuse
...ts suffering from dual diagnosis. Dual-diagnosis psychiatric patients suffer from both mental illness and drug ...d with the highest rates of substance abuse of any psychiatric illness," she said. Nejtek, head of dual-diagnosis research, said bipolar patients have a rate of su...Poor health of Gulf veterans not related to post-traumatic stress disorder
Most Gulf War veterans do not have a formal psychiatric disorder and rates of post-traumatic stress disord...estigate the possibility of a relationship between psychiatric disorders and unexplained physical disabilities. They sent health questionnaires to veterans of the...Study results offer new hope for people with manic depression
...this trial have been highly anticipated within the psychiatric community and I am pleased to be able to confirm that they show quetiapine to be an effective and well tolerated treatment for patients with bipolar disorder, when prescribed in combination with moodstabilizers" continued Professor Sachs. "Important...Specialist mental health services required for refugees exposed to extreme trauma
..., history of mental illness in the preceding year, psychiatric assessment, frequency of disability and use of medical services, and social/cultural factors. 8% of people studied had mental disorders (anxiety or depression), a low rate compared with other studies on the general population. Although the inter...Treatable depression often accompanies even mild memory loss
...ears, was the first to show that the appearance of psychiatric symptoms correlate with the development of mild cognitive impairment. While psychiatric symptoms occur in the majority of persons with outright dementia, "these are the first population-ba...Further evidence linking suicide risk to family history (p 1126)
...vides further evidence linking a family history of psychiatric illness and suicide to increased suicide risk--the...udy also shows how a family history of suicide and psychiatric illness act independently and are not influenced by socio-economic factors. Previous research has ...Should people with dementia be electronically tagged?
... trivial. It causes stress to carers, referrals to psychiatric services and hospital admissions, problems in the hospital environment, and an unknown number of deaths. However, electronic tracking devices might settle the anxieties of others without attending to the needs of the person with dementia, say the aut...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
...ivity Disorder, the most prevalent childhood-onset psychiatric disorder. Their research, published in the October edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that the suspected risk gene may contribute as much as 30 percent of the underlying genetic cause of ADHD and may also be involved in a sep...Schizophrenia has different sub-types linked to problems in different parts of the brain
...gle disease but rather an array of disorders whose psychiatric and cognitive symptoms vary according to which par...eir clinical symptoms were similar to those of the psychiatric diagnostic manual's (DSM-IV) "disorganized schizophrenia" subtype: They had problems maintaining a...Procedure to help Parkinsons disease could shed light on psychiatric disorder
...e treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders. The psychiatric condition obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is thought to be associated with alterations to specific nerve-cell circuits in the sub-cortical regions of the brain. Luc Mallet from CNRS UMR 7593 & INSERM U289 and colleagues implanted electrodes into ...Exercise, talk therapy may help relieve some symptoms of Gulf War veterans' illnesses
...r posttraumatic stress disorder. Those with severe psychiatric illnesses could not take part. The participants were assessed before the study began, and again at 3, 6 and 12 months afterward, using standard evaluation surveys for physical function, pain, fatigue, cognitive symptoms, distress and mental health. ...Researchers identify decision-making area of the brain
...n now investigate in patients with neurological or psychiatric disorders that affect frontal lobe function, says team member Doug Munoz, professor in the Departments of Physiology and Psychology at Queens, and holder of a Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience. For example, subjects diagnosed with attention-defic...Doctors have trouble talking to patients about psychotic symptoms
...h schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder at two psychiatric outpatient clinics in London. They found that patients actively attempted to talk about the content of their psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and the distress associated with these symptoms. However, doctors tended to hesitat...Exploring the relationship between alcoholism and serotonin one step at a time
...itter system has been associated with a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, anti-soc... Another explanation involved the absence of other psychiatric problems among the study patients. "We know that serotonin system functioning is altered in a numbe...Identifying depression in preschoolers
...ded into three groups: depressed; those with other psychiatric disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity...group of children who did not have any diagnosable psychiatric disorder. As in older depressed children and adults, very young children tended to have more than on...Study suggests bipolar disorder may cause progressive brain damage
...ation of treatments for bipolar disorder and other psychiatric diseases--such as schizophrenia and major depression--which involve neuronal loss or dysfunction. "We'll know we're onto a potential treatment if a medication or other intervention manages to boost low levels of NAA toward more normal values, indicat...Children achieve sustained ADHD symptom improvement with long-term, once-daily use of Adderall XR
...nual meeting. ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents. Approximately two million U.S. children, three to seven percent of all school-aged children, have been diagnosed with ADHD. The disorder is characterized by symptoms of inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactive ...