UF study: Adolescent girls who set goals too high may risk anorexia
...were Audrey Tyrka, a resident in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University School of Medicine; Ingrid Waldron, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania; and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, a psychologist at Columbia University. Although experts once believed girls from middle- to upper-midd...Animal studies prove hormone replacement therapy improves memory, report Pitt researchers
...stetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who was not officially part of this study, notes this evidence adds to the growing body of cellular and epidemiological data suggesting that estrogen use after menopause guards against the developme...University of Pittsburgh researchers link gene to depressive disorders in women
...uthor George S. Zubenko, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and adjunct professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. "These results confirm our earlier findings this year that the susceptibility gene in this region selectively affects the v...Study exposes dangers of snuff for smokers wanting to quit
..." Jack E. Henningfield, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said Tomar's findings raise questions and provide additional reasons for caution. "The use of smokeless tobacco and cigarettes is becoming more prevalent, and this is a grow...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
... these findings, said Smalley, also a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Ultimately, we must identify the specific risk gene from among the 100 to 150 genes in this region before we can move to the next level of using such findings to help individu...UNC forms Conte Center for multidisciplinary schizophrenia research
... of Psychiatry. The department ranks seventh among psychiatry programs that receive funding from the National Institutes of Health, receiving $18 million in 2001. Overall, the UNC School of Medicine ranks 14th....Blood pressure medication preserves cognitive function in older African-Americans
...tist at the Regenstrief Institute and professor of psychiatry at the IU School of Medicine. Drs. Murray, Hendrie, and colleagues recently began a four-year study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute to determine whether minority and low-income patients with high blood pressure take their med...University of Pittsburgh to lead first-ever NIMH-funded genetic study of anorexia nervosa
...herapies," said Walter H. Kaye, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine...tors. Bernie Devlin, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-principal investigator, noted that the Pri...Researchers find promising new target for anxiety-reducing drugs
...," said Dr. Clyde W. Hodge, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University's psychiatry department, praised the new findings. "The exciting take-home message is the idea that PKC should ...Treatable depression often accompanies even mild memory loss
... said Beverly N. Jones III, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine (geriatric psychiatry), at Wake Forest, one of the report's authors. "It is important to recognize that these symptoms may be due to changes in brain function, not just emotional reactions to memory decline, and can respond to...UT Southwestern researchers find clue to understanding tolerance to drugs of abuse
...sorders. Dr. Michel Barrot, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and lead author of the paper, s...nces. Senior author Dr. Eric Nestler, chairman of psychiatry at UT Southwestern, had previously established that drugs of abuse activate CREB, a specific binding...New drug may help recovering cocaine addicts, study shows
...el," said William L. Woolverton, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where this portion of the research was conducted. Drugs that are weak reinforcers are less likely to be abused than strong reinforcers such as heroin or cocaine and therefore are less likely to have a...UT Southwestern researcher studies causes, treatment of bipolar disease coupled with drug abuse
...ns caused Dr. Vicki Nejtek, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, to wo...aid. Dr. Saundra Gilfillan, associate professor of psychiatry and medical director of emergency psychiatry services at Parkland Memorial Hospital, said cases of d...9/11 has important lessons for mental health workers
...rrorism; Robert J. Ursano, professor and chair of psychiatry at the F. Hebert School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, who will discuss international perspectives on the psychiatric responses to terrorism; and Rachel Yehuda, Director of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Program at Mount Sinai School of Medi...Emory researcher claims stress-induced changes in brain can create psychiatric disorders
... them, is a departure from the widely held view in psychiatry that psychiatric disorders are completely differen...cted by Bremner and colleagues when he was a young psychiatry resident at West Haven, VA Hospital and Yale University Hospital, During an experience in the wee h...Pivotal brain processor decreased in schizophrenia
... Dr. William Bunney, the Della Martin professor of psychiatry at UCI; Dr. Paul Greengard, professor of neuroscience at Rockefeller University; and Dr. Hugh Hemmings, professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell, and their colleagues found the processor, a chemical called DARPP-32, was reduced in the brains of d...An SSRI antidepressant is safe and effective for depressed, hospitalized heart patients
...says Dr. Alexander Glassman, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and staff member at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the paper's lead author and co-principal investigator. "But our results are very reassuring about the safety of sertraline. It's OK ...Musical interlude helps sleep quality, research shows
... ears. Researchers in the sleep clinic of U of T's psychiatry department and the University Health Network's Tor...some pharmacological treatments for insomnia, says psychiatry professor Leonid Kayumov. "Brain music therapy, because of its more favourable side-effect profile, ...Complex physical learning may compensate for prenatal alcohol exposure, study shows
...sor of molecular and integrative physiology and of psychiatry in the College of Medicine....Time-release stimulant effective for once-daily treatment of ADHD
...ients," says Biederman, who is also a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School....