Alcohol and nicotine: A deadly duo
...ess, said David Overstreet, associate professor of psychiatry with the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, if this outcome were applied to the human condition, we would predict that smokers should be able to attain the reinforcing effects of alcohol with fewer d...Cholesterol bad for brain too, UCSF study says
...neurology and epidemiology, and chief of geriatric psychiatry at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The higher cholesterol these women had, the worse they did on cognitive testing. And using statins, which reduce cholesterol, seemed to be beneficial to their performance on these tests, Yaffe said. ...Nausea sometimes a red flag for anxiety and depression
...n Norway. Haug and colleagues in the department of psychiatry conducted what is perhaps the largest study of the prevalence of nausea ever undertaken. The study is published in the March/April issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry. Overall, 48 percent of 62,000 people in Norway who completed surveys ...Duke researchers identify age at onset genes for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
...M. Vance all of Duke's departments of medicine and psychiatry and the Center for Human Genetics. Other co-authors include: Martha A. Nance of the Struthers Parkinson Center in Golden Valley, Minn.; Ray L. Watts, Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta; Jean P. Hubble, Department o...Study examines benefits of caring for seniors
...or Dr. Carole Cohen of the University of Toronto's psychiatry department and Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. "These positive feelings were associated with less depression and sense of burden and better self-reported health among caregivers - an improvement in many of the common risk facto...Sleep less, live longer? Increased death rate associated with sleeping 8 hours or more
...author Daniel F. Kripke, M.D., a UCSD professor of psychiatry who specializes in sleep research, said we dont know if long sleep periods lead to death. Additional studies are needed to determine if setting your alarm clock earlier will actually improve your health. But, he added individuals who now average 6.5...Energy balance, not exercise, key to athletic menstrual disturbance
...orked with Judy L. Cameron, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology and physiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Dana L. Helmreich and David B. Parfitt, then graduate students, and Anne Caston-Balderrama, at that time a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, were also part of the r...New studies on Alzheimers, depression unveiled at geriatric psychiatry conference
The nations foremost experts in geriatric psychiatry are presenting new studies and the latest findings...owledge base and standard of practice in geriatric psychiatry through education and research and to advocate for meeting the mental health needs of older American...Study shows caregiver and patient costs rise as symptom severity increases in Alzheimer's disease
...nd Parlow-Soloman Professor on Aging, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA, and director of the UCLA Center on Aging. The study found that as symptoms progressed, costs rose. For the six-month study period, costs approximated $20,000 for a typical high-functioning patient compared with $35...Dosage appears to be a critical factor in cocaine vaccine
...e cocaine," said Thomas Kosten, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and lead researcher on the project. There are an estimated three million cocaine abusers, making cocaine the second most commonly abused illicit drug after marijuana. Kosten hopes to enroll a total of 150 patients in the se...UNC expands national clinical trials of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's drugs
...logy at USC, and Pierre Tariot, M.D., professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Rochester direct the Alzheimer's disease trials. Key investigators from UNC-Chapel Hill are Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H., and Diana Perkins, M.D., M.P.H. Other researchers involved in trial management are Joseph McEvo...Behavioral therapies plus pharmacotherapies can add up to success
...s study," said Stephanie S. O'Malley, professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, "is the sequencing of therapies. The behavioral interventions were provided during day hospital treatment, while the pharamcotherapy occurred after discharge when the patient had brief contacts with a physician...Say two prayers and call me in the morning
...dy by John Chibnall, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and medical student Christy Brooks found that a majority of physicians are not comfortable addressing spirituality with patients. In a survey of 78 physicians, a majority reported they accepted a link bet...How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick
... Healthcare System and professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. "Early and protracted alcohol use by teens can have both short and long term health effects. For example, in our studies of youth evaluated over a six-year period, we found that respiratory, and accident ......rdon, MD, adjunct professor of family medicine and psychiatry Michael Lumpkin, PhD, professor and chair of the department of physiology and biophysics Gary Kaplan, DO, adjunct associate professor of family medicine Hakima Amri, PhD, research assistant professor of cell biology Louis Jacques, MD, associate profe...Rewards coupled with naltrexone effective in treating heroin and other opioid addictions
...tute on Drug Abuse, Kathleen Carroll, professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, said the intent was to evaluate the best way to encourage patients addicted to opioids, among them, codeine, morphine and heroin, to take naltrexone regularly. Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that blocks the effect of o...12-hour ADHD drug as effective as thrice daily doses
...m, Ph.D., professor of psychology, pediatrics, and psychiatry at UB and one of the world's leading authorities on attention deficit disorder. Results appear in the electronic pages of the June issue of Pediatrics. Researchers have been working for some time to develop an effective and safe extended-release fo...Human brain has unsuspected oxygen reserve, challenging previous theories
...intun is a professor of radiology and professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His groups findings appear in the June 5 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and will appear on the journals website May 29. Imaging has become a critical tool for explo...Feeling of hopelessness increases risk of dying
...uthor Stephen L. Stern, M.D., of the department of psychiatry at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Approximately half of the study participants were Mexican American, the fastest growing group of elderly Americans. Other studies also have found hopelessness to predict death, but th...... has been the pioneer in translational research in psychiatry at the NIMH," noted Weinberger. "It provided a model for interactions between basic and clinical scientists focused around a common program goal: to understand the biology of schizophrenia. His lab has produced a generation of international lea...