Women pleased with preventative mastectomy decision
...Mary Jane Esplen of the Faculty of Nursing and the psychiatry department, University Health Network and Mt. Sinai Hospital. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation provided support for this study. ...Link between sleep, cancer progression explored by Stanford researcher
...k, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor and professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and Sandra Sephton, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar now at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, suggest that a person's sleep/wake cycle might be the connection. Spiegel will present this work at the annual Am...Change in social policies could reduce high rate of depression in men who have sex with men
...MD, MPH, a retired associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) who is prinicpal author of a new study. The study, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry , found that MSM have depression at a rate three times greater than men in...University of Pittsburgh imaging agent study suggests breakthrough in Alzheimer's research
...liam E. Klunk, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-inventor of PIB. "Using PIB, we will likely be able to follow the progression of the disease and speed the development of promising new therapies aimed at halting the build-up of amyloid in th...JAMA study confirms drug can help improve memory and cognition in advanced Alzheimer's patients
... investigator Pierre N. Tariot, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said that the study was significant not only because it validates a new class of drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's, but also because it was the first time positive results have been seen combining t...New method of distinguishing Alzheimer's from Lewy body dementia
...nd clinical neuropsychologist in the department of psychiatry and psychology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. "Even though attempts have been made to carefully describe these behaviors, they have not been used reliably as diagnostic tools." Dr. Ferman spoke today at an American Medical Association med...Blocking selected neurotransmitter activity may decrease alcohol consumption
.... Hodge, associate professor in the departments of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of North Caroli...roscience Alcoholism Research in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "This research suggests that alcohol-preferring mice may ...When alcohol consumption evolves from a 'social lubricant' into a 'crutch'
...xplained Suzanne E. Thomas, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina and first author of the study. "Besides avoiding situations where they might be evaluated, many individuals with social anxiety disorder [also] use alcohol to cope." Thomas noted that although reports vary...Database study yields new insights into arthritis drug
...a VA staff physician and professor of medicine and psychiatry at the School of Medicine. "The disadvantage is that it may take a little bit longer for patients to improve clinically; the advantage is that patients may be more likely to continue treatment." Eisen and Chuck Siva, M.D., a rheumatology fellow, were...... of child and adolescent psychiatry, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore. "The data also suggest a decreased level of GABA, a neuro-inhibitor. This combination may explain the behavior of children with poor impulse control." Dr. Courvoisie spok...Faulty wiring in the brain may cause early-onset schizophrenia
...htari, Ph.D., associate professor of radiology and psychiatry at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. "Conventional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is limited in its ability to reveal brain myelination, but DTI enables us to measure the myelination pr...Emory, GlaxoSmithKline, NIMH enter public-private partnership to develop new drugs for depression
...g Michael Davis, PhD, Robert Woodruff professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and Andrew H.Miller, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, will develop preclinical models of fear, anxiety, and depression. In coll...MRI helps radiologists predict future memory decline
...said co-author Mony J. de Leon, Ed.D, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Brain Health at NYU School of Medicine. The first signs of memory loss are usually diagnosed as mild cognitive impairment. People with mild cognitive impairment decline to dementia at a rate of 10 percent to 15 percent ...Study questions benefits of costly schizophrenia drug
...ter in West Haven, Connecticut, and a professor of psychiatry and public health at Yale University Medical School. "That's why we think this study is more relevant to everyday practice. We wanted to compare the two drugs in the way they are used in the real world." The randomized, double-blinded study, which ...Breastfed infants show little effect when moms take anti-depressant
... said Neill Epperson, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study in this month's Pediatrics journal. A decline in blood serotonin levels would have suggested that the infants received enough of the drug through their mother's bre...The Endocrine Society responds to Institute of Medicine report on testosterone therapy for older men
...eas of medicine, including endocrinology, urology, psychiatry and primary care, to perform an in depth review of the issues pertaining to androgen deficiency in aging men. The conferences were held to evaluate the current research on testosterone therapy and to develop recommendations for testosterone therapy ...Re-examining alcohol problems among American Indian communities
... issues," said Paul Spicer, associate professor of psychiatry in American Indian and Alaska Native Programs at the University of Colorado Health Sciences, and first author of the study. "While no one study could do justice to the tremendous cultural diversity among contemporary American Indian tribes, we wante...College students may be drinking more alcohol than even they realize
... assistant research professor in the department of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and first author of the study, "that if they say they had three drinks, then they really had three drinks. This study suggests that it's just not that simple. Students tend to have pretty liberal views about what c...Implanted stimulator for Parkinson's disease impairs cognitive function
...ator Tamara Hershey, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine. "But when we looked at cognitive function, patients did better when their stimulators were turned off, although these effects were subtle." Hershey and colleagues tested 24 patients with Parkinson's disease. All had electro...Caregivers for patients with dementia need more support before patient dies, less after
...to lead author Richard Schulz, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, family caregivers of patients with end-of-life dementia endure a protracted and stressful period of caregiving prior to death, but after death express considerable relief and remarkable emotional re...