Scents will not rouse us from slumber, says new Brown University study
...the other way around." Carksadon is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior in the Brown Medical School and director of chronobiology at E.P. Bradley Hospital. The research was supported by a Grass Foundation Trustee Grant and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the E.P. Bradley Hospital....Long-term study proves ADDERALL XR is a safe and effective option to treat adults with ADHD
... investigator Joseph Biederman, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Up to 65 percent of children with ADHD may still exhibit symptoms into adulthood and an estimated 4.4 percent of the U.S. adult populations are affected by ADHD. If left untreated, ADHD may seriously and adversely affect ...Scientists uncover how brain retrieves and stores older memories
...ncipal investigator and professor of neurobiology, psychiatry and psychology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Now that we know where to look, we're one step closer to developing drugs to target genes or processes of the brain that may be related to memory disorders." Other authors on the paper i...Attacking bipolar disorder in young adults boosts outcome, says Stanford study
... led by Terence Ketter, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "It's possible for this group of patients to do very well," said Ketter, who examined the medical and treatment histories of college students treated at Stanford's Bipolar Disorde...One-drug therapy approach to treating bipolar disorder
...r going forward," says Dr. Calabrese, professor of psychiatry at Case and a nationally renowned researcher in bipolar disease. The Center he co-directs in Cleveland with pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Robert Findling is the first NIMH-funded center exclusively dedicated to the development of new treatments for bip...Rising young psychiatry researchers receive prestigious international award
...ise and support rising young stars in the field of psychiatry research from around the world. The Awards Program...(schizophrenia). An independent panel of acclaimed psychiatry experts reviewed a total of 24 submissions from around the world. "Deciding on the winners was a di...Mid-life heart disease risk factors linked to dementia in late-life
...neurology and epidemiology, and chief of geriatric psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Yaffe was senior researcher of the study. Most previous studies showing the relation between cardiovascular risk factors and dementia have focused only on elderly patients. Mid-life risk factors for heart disea...The NYU Child Study Center presents the inaugural State of the Science lecture
...ild development on the one hand and clinical child psychiatry on the other. Initially, his work focused on autism and on questions surrounding origins of the disorder. His research activities then went on to include resilience in relation to stress, developmental links between childhood and adult life, school...Imaging test could be used to diagnose schizophrenia
...hrenia," said Godfrey Pearlson, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, director of the Olin Neurospychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living in Hartford, and senior author of the study published in Biological Psychiatry. "Using this imaging test, we were able to identify patients wi...NHS trusts putting safety of pregnant doctors at risk
... of pregnant women in the workplace. One doctor in psychiatry describes how she was expected to work extended nights on call, covering forensic and challenging behaviour units, well into her pregnancy. When she challenged the trust on the safety issue of a pregnant woman attending potentially violent patients, ...Sleep problems in early childhood may predict substance use during adolescence
... research assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and first author of the study. "However, while sleep problems in early childhood also predicted attention problems and anxiety/depression in later childhood, these problems did not mediate the sleep-drug onset relations...Are toddlers who can't sleep at higher risk of becoming teens who smoke, drink or do drugs?
...cause-and-effect relationship, notes co-author and psychiatry professor Kirk Brower, M.D., who has studied the interplay of alcohol and sleep in adults, and is Executive Director of the Chelsea Arbor Treatment Center, which treats teen and adult substance abusers. (Chelsea Arbor is a joint program of U-M and Ch...UCLA yoga study seeks breast cancer survivors
...sychiatric Institute and an assistant professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. "We are collaborating with a local yoga instructor who has worked with breast cancer survivors and is very interested in doing a study to evaluate the potential benefits of yoga for this group." Today, most women are diagn...Preventing another Columbine: Youth violence prevention conference
... field of neuroscience, biology, anthropology, and psychiatry have joined forces to examine the causes of adolescent violence from a public health perspective. To examine the roots of youth violence and discuss the latest strategies for preventing interpersonal violence among youth, the New York Academy of Scie...Brain activity, including memory-processing, changes in Tourette syndrome
...thor Tamara Hershey, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and neurology at the School of Medicine. "We also know dopamine is involved in tics, but if we had studied a task that involved movement, for example, the fact that some tics involve movement could have made it harder to interpret the differences in ...Schizophrenia patients don't take medications regularly
...enior author, Dilip Jeste, M.D., UCSD professor of psychiatry and neurosciences and the Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging. "Hospital expenditures, for example, are more than three times higher among those who are non-adherent than are expenditures for patients who take their medication on schedule." Jeste,...UCLA research explores biology of fear
...nter faculty scholar and an assistant professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. "Current treatment protocols use medications intended to blunt the physiological effects of fear and use behavioral therapy designed to space exposure to the fear stimulus over time. Our findings show treatment may be more...Light to moderate drinking during pregnancy may lead to learning and memory deficits in adolescents
...n," said Jennifer Willford, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the study's first author. "This paper clearly shows that even small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can have a significant impact on child development." "Learning and memory are cornerstone...Earlier diagnosis of schizophrenia improves results of treatment
...e researcher. Thomas McGlashan, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, said the length of time between the onset of psychosis and detection and treatment can stretch from several weeks to several years. This time span is a concern because the patient is sick and untreated and because there is......edfield Jamison, Ph.D., a Johns Hopkins University psychiatry professor who detailed her own struggle with bipolar disorder in the book "An Unquiet Mind" and has written extensively on depressive illnesses Morton Silverman, M.D., senior advisor, Suicide Prevention Resource Center John Howell, safety for the...