Cognitive behavior therapy effective for treating people with hypochondria
...iates that included educational level, generalized psychiatric distress, and participant status (patient vs. volunteer)," the authors write. "At 12-month follow-up, CBT patients had significantly lower levels of hypochondriacal symptoms, beliefs, and attitudes and health-related anxiety. They also had significan...First national sleep conference March 29-30 explores sleep's role in public health
...act the body's immune function, the development of psychiatric conditions including depression, and the progressi...he effects of insomnia, such as increased risk for psychiatric disorders, decreased quality of life, increased healthcare utilization and costs, and poor daytime f...Social problems linked to mental illness in Pakistan
...the past three decades. These are risk factors for psychiatric disorders and may help explain the findings of this review, say the authors. The time is right for Pakistan to build on this research effort and develop a national strategy to tackle mental illness, they conclude....Study reveals high suicide rates among young people in India
...Access problems of children and adolescents with a psychiatric illness to a specially trained child and adolescent psychiatrist have been well documented, even in the USA. Promotion of training and education of qualified mental-health professionals, including child and adolescent psychiatrists, is justified cons...Schizophrenia patients don't take medications regularly
... Additional findings in the study were: Both psychiatric and medical hospitalizations were strongly related to the degree of drug adherence; Older individuals were more likely to be adherent that younger patients; African-American and Latino patients were more likely to be partially or non-adherent tha...Concern over poor facilities for young people with mental illness
...rs identified 54 patients aged under 18 on general psychiatric wards and paediatric wards in nine health authorit...lack of capacity in child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric units in England and Wales. This is consistent with the views of child and adolescent psychiatrists....Rates of trauma and of posttraumatic stress disorder higher among incarcerated youth
...ll arrests. The number of detained juveniles with psychiatric disorders is high: two-thirds of boys and three-quarters of girls have one or more psychiatric disorders. Lifetime diagnoses of PTSD in community samples of youth range from 6.3 percent to 7.8 p...UCLA yoga study seeks breast cancer survivors
...weekly yoga classes, the women will participate in psychiatric interviews, complete questionnaires, and provide blood and saliva samples for immune and hormonal evaluation. The classes will be taught at a yoga studio in West Los Angeles. Women interested in participating in the study should call Deborah Garet at...NHS trusts putting safety of pregnant doctors at risk
... and little support. Meanwhile, at the same trust, psychiatric nurses are removed from clinical duties and night shifts as soon as they inform the trust of their pregnancy. This situation has resulted in several alarming incidents concerning pregnant junior doctors. One was attacked while attending a patient on ...Imaging test could be used to diagnose schizophrenia
...is of schizophrenia is based on a constellation of psychiatric symptoms. The mental illness also has been associated with both structural and functional abnormalities in neocortical networks including frontal, parietal, and temporal regions of the brain, but there has been no diagnostic test for the disorder. ...The NYU Child Study Center presents the inaugural State of the Science lecture
...ools as social institutions, reading difficulties, psychiatric genetics, neuropsychiatry, effects of deprivation on Romanian orphan adoptees, and psychiatric epidemiology. Professor Rutter is widely considered the most eminent child and adolescent psychiatr......gel. "Many people still believe that epilepsy is a psychiatric disorder or mental retardation. An editorial in the British Medical Journal recently put it well: "The history of epilepsy is 3000 years of ignorance, stigma, and discrimination and 100 years of knowledge, stigma, and discrimination." The most destru...New UNC study shows Hurricane Floyd boosted abuse and non-abuse brain injuries in children
...yd was likely to have produced both an increase in psychiatric symptoms as seen after other large-scale disasters, as well as financial hardship and loss of social ties for families caught in the worst of the flooding," she said. "Our conclusion was that families are vulnerable to an elevated risk of inflicted a...Anthrax survivors continued to have health problems one year after exposure
...nclude medically unexplained health complaints and psychiatric comorbidity, such as symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders. Psychiatric and medical systems of care and rehabilitation should be coordinated to minimize functional impairment and improve health-related quality o...Hormone may offer hope for treating some behavioral disorders
...ave been implicated in a variety of behavioral and psychiatric disorders, studies of secretin effects may lead to new treatment interventions for these often debilitating disorders. "Results of our study support the hypothesis that secretin alters amygdala responsiveness to affective stimuli," concludes Yurgelun...Health care providers should be prepared for high prevalence of co-occurring disorders
... substance abuse disorders often have co-occurring psychiatric disorders. But are the substance abuse problems of... of patients in substance abuse treatment? Are the psychiatric disorders of patients receiving substance abuse treatment less severe than those of psychiatric pati...Co-occurring disorders increase risk of suicide attempt by adolescents
...ng drugs at an early age and have more symptoms of psychiatric and substance use disorders than adolescents who d...d assessments of substanceand nonsubstance-related psychiatric disorders. Both the adolescents and their parents answered standardized questions about age of onset...Mixed amphetamine salts significantly better than atomoxetine in treating children with ADHD
...tes, and is considered the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents. ADHD is a neurological brain disorder that manifests as a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequent and severe than is typically observed in individuals at a compar...Rising young psychiatry researchers receive prestigious international award
...eeting. Researchers within 5 years of completing a psychiatric residency can now apply for this award by submitting a proposal of scientific merit that demonstrates academic promise while explaining how winning an award will further their career. Proposals can cover a range of activities including: research, edu...... 10-fold variation in the proportion admitted to a psychiatric bed. There were also wide variations in the implementation of the recommended service structures. Future research should examine the relationships between the patient management and service structures described here and indicators such as repetition ...