Stanford, Packard research finds better drug therapy for children predisposed to bipolar disorder
...rain," said Kiki Chang, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the School of Medicine ...tudent; Terence Ketter, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; and Hans Steiner, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. The ...UIC project may reduce drug name confusion
...ers from UIC's departments of computer science and psychiatry and with the University of Buffalo's psychology department....Diuretic may help increase brain blood flow in cocaine addicts
...endent subjects, Thomas Kosten, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and colleagues administered amiloride, aspirin or placebo to 49 patients for one month while they resided on a research unit. Blood flow in the brain was measured on admission to the unit and at the end of treatment. At t...Educational attainment may predict drinking outcomes following alcohol treatment
... said Shelly F. Greenfield, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and medical director of the alcohol and drug abuse ambulatory treatment program at McLean Hospital. "Education is something you might have influence over. Although previous studies have looked at this association, none to...How a nightcap may hinder rather than help your sleep
..., adjunct assistant professor , cross-appointed in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Calgary, and corresponding author for the study. "However, falling asleep faster is the only real benefit of alcohol for sleep. The more prevalent, disruptive effects include more frequent awakenings, worse sleep...University of Iowa examines role of faith-based groups in helping ex-offenders
...ation," said Stephan Arndt, Ph.D., UI professor of psychiatry and one of the report authors. The team was not surprised to find that the faith-based groups "do more than they think they do and more than outsiders think they do," said Arndt, who also is director of the UI Consortium for Substance Abuse Research ...Physicians' emotional responses to patients' deaths increase with care length, says Pitt
... Ph.D., a research instructor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. "Instead, emotional reaction was determined primarily and consistently by the duration of the doctor-patient relationship." The reactions also were stronger among female physicians than among males. While most doctor...Researchers study experiences of hospice nurses with patients who hasten death
...d Veterans Affairs Medical Center and professor of psychiatry in the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine. As they interviewed physicians about their experiences with patients who request assisted suicide under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act (NEJM, Feb., 24, 2000), the researchers h...Latest research on possible causes of violent behavior explored in C&EN article
..., reports Ernest S. Barratt, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The drug, however, has had little effect on those who committed premeditated aggression, he says. While serotonin system deficiency seems to be one of the main triggers f...An anti-nicotine drug reduces the rewarding effects of alcohol
...t de Wit, associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Chicago and corresponding aut...," said Kranzler, a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center, "and provides another step in linking pre-clinical, ...Alcohol-damaged brains 'recruit' new brain regions to perform simple tasks
...frontal lobes," said Peter R. Martin, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology, director of the Vanderbilt Addic...task," said Edith Sullivan, associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. "Further, evidence for recruitment of brain regions that...Internet weight loss program effective among adults at risk for diabetes
...was led by Deborah F. Tate, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior in the Brown Medical School; Tate is based at Miriam Hospital. Internet behavioral programs may offer an alternative to more burdensome clinic programs, said Tate. This study demonstrated Internet interventions could be used for l...National Census finds most US counties don't have enough adult day centers
... in Caregiving. Cox, who also is an instructor in psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, told the 2003 Joint Conference of the National Council on the Aging and American Society of Aging today (March 15) in Chicago that the census showed 3,407 adult day centers are...Identifying depression in preschoolers
...r Joan L. Luby, M.D., assistant professor of child psychiatry and director of the Early Emotional Development Program at the School of Medicine. "They're less joyful when they encounter the pleasures of daily life." Luby and colleagues studied 174 children between the ages of 3 and 5-and-a-half to determine wh...Parkinson's drug linked to heart disease risk factor
...that risk. Dr. Alan Frol, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern, also participated in the study published in January 2003, as well as scientists from the Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York....Tracking the long-term functioning of adolescents with alcohol problems
...ulthood," said Tammy Chung, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and co-organizer of the symposium. "Longer-term studies can help us to understand how certain developmental milestones, such as full-time employment and independent living, affect the course of alcohol ...Brain images reveal effects of antidepressants
... UW psychology professor Richard Davidson, Ph.D., psychiatry department chair Ned Kalin, MD, research associate William Irwin and research assistant Michael Anderle were the authors. The researchers found that when they gave the antidepressant venlafaxine (Effexor(r)) to a small group of clinically depressed p...NIH funds new brain imaging center at San Francisco VA Medical Center
...cal Center and a professor of radiology, medicine, psychiatry and neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. "This system will allow us to see smaller structures in the brain," Weiner said. The system measures different chemicals in the brain non-invasively and without the use of dyes or tracers....Exploring the relationship between alcoholism and serotonin one step at a time
... explained Gary S. Wand, professor of medicine and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and..." Mary E. McCaul, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, offers additional explanatio......ate or a trait," said Lance O. Bauer, professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and lead author of the study. "That is, do patients with clinical depression possess normal brain function that only becomes abnormal when they are in a state of active depression? Or, alternati...