Eating disorder behaviors linked to suicide risks
...ound that most of the women in the study had other psychiatric disorders besides an eating disorder, including de... 84 percent of the patients had at least one other psychiatric problem. Milos and colleagues say the link between purging and suicidal attempts might be due to a l...Drug for depression helps irritable bowel syndrome, according to Pittsburgh study
...ies. SSRIs are considered first line treatments in psychiatric illnesses such as major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, which are found in 50 to 90 percent of patients with IBS, according to Dr. Arnold, who is a gastroenterologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) Shadyside Hosp...Magnetic treatment may help people with spinal cord injuries
...e and feel. rTMS was a treatment designed to treat psychiatric disorders, and has been used in treating some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Dr Davey adds: "Despite this, we still need to be extremely careful in interpreting these results as we only sampled a small number of patients. Further studies on large...Action needed to tackle drug related crime
...y in the United Kingdom. Researchers used national psychiatric and crime registers in Sweden from 1998 to 2000 to calculate the impact of substance misuse on violent crime in the Swedish population. During 1998-2000, 16% of all violent crimes in Sweden were committed by people who were discharged from hospital w...Patient safety study provides first national estimate of adverse events in Canadian hospitals
... admissions, not including pediatric, obstetric or psychiatric admissions. This rate suggests that 185,000 of the almost 2.5 million medical and surgical admissions in Canada in 2000 were associated with an adverse event defined as an unintended injury or complication resulting in death, disability or prolonged...Full moon exerts no pull on frequency of epileptic seizures
...ses with heart attacks, birth rates, suicides, and psychiatric hospital admissions have found little or no association. Why then, does the belief persist that the moon may have some mystical gravitational power over our health and well being? In the past, before physicians recognized that epilepsy was caused b...Offending by psychiatric patients is rare
Despite great public concern, offending by psychiatric patients after discharge is rare, according to new...ions. In the two years after discharge, only 6% of psychiatric patients committed a violence offence. The strongest association with offending was previous offendi...Patients with severe depression improve using guidelines developed by UT Southwestern researchers
...han two years. It accounts for up to 60 percent of psychiatric hospitalizations, with 8 percent to 15 percent of ...nd implementing medication guidelines for treating psychiatric illness in the public sector. Besides mapping out algorithms for depression, TMAP also offers parall...Topiramate: a potential new medication for treating alcoholism
...erstudied populations such as those suffering from psychiatric and/or substance abuse comorbidity, adolescents, and minorities. Because alcoholism is a heterogeneous disease, we most likely need medications that act on multiple sites. A combination of medications and behavioral therapies will most likely produ...High blood pressure related decline in cognitive function affects adults young and old
... (WAIS). People suffering from dementia, diabetes, psychiatric illness, alcoholism, drug abuse or stroke were excluded. The researchers analyzed data from four types of cognitive function tests focusing on visualization-fluid ability, memory, crystallized-verbal ability and speed. Only tests for visualization-f...Mentally ill have higher odds of developing brain, lung cancers
...cessation counseling and physical work-ups for new psychiatric symptoms occurring with physical symptoms, for psychiatric symptoms presenting in an unusual pattern, or for new psychiatric symptoms occurring at ages atypica...NYU Child Study Center researcher receives award from NARSAD
...ysiology, treatment, or prevention of severe child psychiatric illness. The chosen researcher is one who gives p...nd adolescent psychotic, affective or other severe psychiatric disorders. Dr. Klein has been an active researcher in child psychiatry for several decades and has b...Long-term study demonstrated ADDERALL XR is an effective option to treat adolescents with ADHA
... ADHD is considered the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents, and affects approximately three to seven percent of all school-age children, or approximately two million children in the U.S. Results from follow-up studies of subjects with ADHD published over the past two dec...Antipsychotic drugs linked to insulin resistance in children
...ffects than older drugs used to treat debilitating psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, Riddle says. The drugs, which balance certain chemicals in the brain and stabilize mood, have successfully treated countless numbers of children since being introduced in the 1990s, he notes. "Treatments are always a...Sleep disorders often indicate multiple health conditions
...of attention deficit, as well as neuromuscular and psychiatric conditions. "Although sleep apnea is clearly linked to attention deficit in adults, treating the sleep disorder may not always improve a patient's daytime attention and cognition," said the study's lead author, Clifford G. Risk, MD, PhD, FCCP, Mar...Combination therapy, not medication alone, most effective for treating children with OCD
...ic OCD is a common, chronic, and often undiagnosed psychiatric disorder that, if not adequately treated, is associated with considerable morbidity extending into adulthood. As illustrated by the fact that the overwhelming majority of POTS patients completed treatment as intended using treatment protocols intende...Development of working memory, allowing voluntary control of behavior, defined
...is one of the major brain systems impaired in many psychiatric illnesses, understanding these links could inform the development of new treatments," said Dr. Luna. ...Psychotherapy, meds best for youth with obsessive compulsive disorder
... of study participants had at least one additional psychiatric disorder. Combining sertraline and CBT was more effective than treatment with just one or the other. CBT alone did prove superior to sertraline, which, in turn, was better than a placebo. By the end of the trial, the remission rates were 53.6 perce...Job-stressed women more vulnerable than men to 9/11 trauma
...rist attack, according to a new study published by psychiatric researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The study is published in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Drawing on data from a longitudinal survey on workplace stress in both men and women, the researchers found t...Adults with nicotine dependence and/or psychiatric disorders consume 70 percent of all cigarettes smo... of nicotine dependence and a broad array of other psychiatric disorders including alcohol and drug abuse and dependence, mood and anxiety disorders, and personali...