Collaborative care, training boosts adolescent depression treatment in primary care clinics
... principal investigator of the study, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and director of the UCLA Youth Stress and Mood Clinic. "Results of our study indicate that a collaborative care program that improves access to best-practice depression care, supports...Marijuana associated with same respiratory symptoms as tobacco
...l spores, said Brent Moore, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study. "Because more than two million adult Americans are heavy marijuana smokers, these risks represent a potentially large health burden," Moore said. "Marijuana smokers use more medical services f...Carefree people care less about cancer symptoms, endanger health
...h.D., assistant professor of medical psychology in psychiatry and investigator at the Siteman Cancer Center. "Most people assume the explanation is fear or denial or a reluctance to hear the 'C-word' from a doctor. So, I was surprised to find those who are generally optimistic and unconcerned had the longest de...Stanford study shows hypnosis helps kids undergoing difficult procedure
...llson Professor in Medicine and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Spiegel also directs the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine and the Psychosocial Treatment Laboratory at Stanford and is an attending psychiatrist at the children's hospital. To learn self-hypnosis, Hannah Miller met wi...Expert panel calls for raising the bar in treating schizophrenia
... treatment goals for schizophrenia. "For decades, psychiatry has focused almost solely on managing a patient's ...o offer," said Philip D. Harvey, PhD, professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and chief psychologist at Mount Sinai Hospital. "Today, patients ...Prentiss Foundation awards $5 million to University Hospitals
...m, at Rainbow, to the already nationally acclaimed psychiatry programs at University Hospitals, children and adolescents in Northeast Ohio will finally have easy access to the cutting-edge mental health care that they need and deserve." "We are deeply honored and grateful for this generous gift from the Prenti...Shire receives US FDA approval of EQUETRO (TM) for bipolar disorder
...entarium." Dr. Weisler is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sch... of Medicine and an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center....New study shows early ritalin may cause long-term effects on the brain
...ral Genetics Laboratory and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "While Ritalin is an effective medication that improves the quality of life for many children with ADHD, accurately diagnosing and identifying the correct treatment regimen for the disorder is essential, especially when co...Increased suicide rate is possibly linked to chemicals released from nearby asphalt plants
...or is Dr. Richard H. Weisler, adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...School of Medicine, adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and BREDL volunteer. Other collaborators in this research were ...Pitt research shows NASA sleep-wake scheduling guide may need to be changed
...e time," said Timothy H. Monk, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and lead author. "We often wonder if we should make the change all at once, or more gradually over several days or weeks. This research has the eventual aim of helping us make that decision in the be...Diabetics with mental disorders at increased risk for diabetic complications
...roline Carney, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of psychiatry and medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Dr. Carney is the senior author of the study which looked at insurance claims data from more than 26,000 diabetic adults between th...'Sobering' disparity: African-Americans receive less compensation for job-related back injuries
...ring," said Raymond C. Tait, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and ...added John Chibnall, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and a study co-investigator. "We expected that African...Novel imaging technique shows abnormal brain anatomy in children with ADHD
...shtari, PhD., associate professor of radiology and psychiatry at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y. "These areas are involved in the processes that regulate attention, impulsive behavior, motor activity, and inhibition--the key symptoms in ADHD children," Dr. Ashtari said. "Th...Social supports lessen effects of maltreatment on children vulnerable to depression
...man Services. Joan Kaufman, associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and author of the study, said many, but not all abused children develop chronic difficulties, particularly depression. Previous studies have shown that a malfunction in the serotonin transporter gene is associated with the...Capsules may be effective in treating bipolar disorder
...r of both clinical trials and adjunct professor of psychiatry at UNC's School of Medicine. "Many patients at p... Weisler also is adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center and has a private practice in Raleigh. Mo...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...n Dewey. Dewey and Jonathan Brodie, a professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and this study's lead author, have conducted extensive brain-imaging and behavioral studies on animals at Brookhaven Lab showing that GVG attenuates and in some cases blocks neurological and behavioral changes associated wit...Alcoholics can have deficits in visuoperception and frontal executive function despite sobriety
...d Edith Sullivan, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. "These deficits can impair everyday living, in that individuals with visuospatial or visuoperceptual deficits may be unable to accurately assess distance and spatial relations betwee...Prenatal alcohol exposure has effects far beyond fetal alcohol syndrome
...ndra W. Jacobson, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and first author of the study. "ARND refers to nonsyndromal individuals with confirmed heavy prenatal alcohol exposure who exhibit measurable, but generally subtler neurobeha...Study reveals link between cardiovascular risk and cognitive decline
...y, and epidemiology at UCSF and chief of geriatric psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). Dr. Yaffe led the five-year prospective study of more than 2,600 elders in Tennessee and Pennsylvania. The elders were approximately evenly divided between males and females and blacks and whites. By t...... Boston Healthcare System and chair of the Harvard psychiatry department. The brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons, or nerve cells. Researchers believe our thoughts are created when large groupings of these neurons "fire"-send messages to each other, through bursts of electrical activity-at the same ...