News tagged with psychiatrist
China passes law to curb abuse of mental hospitals
(AP)—China's legislature on Friday passed a long-awaited mental health law that aims to prevent people from being involuntarily held and unnecessarily treated in psychiatric facilities—abuses that have ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 26, 2012 |
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Taking terror out of nightmares: Tips for parents
(HealthDay)—Nightmares are common in children and upsetting for both youngsters and parents, but there are some things you can do to manage and prevent them, an expert says.
Health
Oct 14, 2012 |
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Canada tackles mental health woes in developing countries
Canada announced Wednesday it was disbursing Can$19.4 million in aid for 14 poorer countries to treat mental health disorders.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Indonesia's mentally ill shackled and forgotten
Between rice fields and coconut trees on Indonesia's "paradise" island of Bali, a man lies chained by the ankles to a rotting wooden bed in a garden, staring at roosters tottering by.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Treating stubborn depression
At least one in three patients with depression won't respond well to a series of treatments and experts in the field have joined together to outline practical treatments to tackle the issue, in the Medical Journal of Australia Op ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 03, 2012 |
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Backers aim to widen ban on gay conversion therapy (Update)
(AP)—Gay rights advocates are making plans to get other states to join California in banning psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight, even as opponents prepared Monday to sue to overturn the first law in the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 01, 2012 |
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Antipsychotic drugmakers target marketing dollars at DC Medicaid psychiatrists
The D.C. Department of Health (DOH) has released a study by George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services (SPHHS) indicating the high levels of marketing by antipsychotic drug manufacturers to Medicaid ...
Medications
Sep 27, 2012 |
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'Foreign' proteins are also implicated in Alzheimer's disease, implications for differentiated treatments
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's are characterised by the loss of nerve cells and the deposition of proteins in the brain tissue. A group of researchers led by Gabor G. Kovacs ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Sep 24, 2012 |
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Simple tool helps psychiatry residents ID risk of violence
(HealthDay)—A simple, structured risk assessment tool, the Historical, Clinical, Risk Management-20 clinical subscale (HCR-20-C), could help psychiatric residents more accurately evaluate the risk for violence ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2012 |
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Simple tool may help evaluate risk for violence among patients with mental illness
Mental health professionals, who often are tasked with evaluating and managing the risk of violence by their patients, may benefit from a simple tool to more accurately make a risk assessment, according to a recent study ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2012 |
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Mayo Clinic suicide prevention expert outlines new steps to tackle military suicide
The suicide rate in the U.S. Army now exceeds the rate in the general population, and psychiatric admission is now the most common reason for hospitalization in the Army. These concerning trends are described by Timothy Lineberry, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 10, 2012 |
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Simple tool may help inexperienced psychiatrists better predict violence risk in patients
Inexperienced psychiatrists are less likely than their veteran peers to accurately predict violence by their patients, but a simple assessment checklist might help bridge that accuracy gap, according to new research from ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Violent news bad for children
(Medical Xpress) -- Television coverage of the shooting at a cinema in Colorado last week may traumatize children who watch it, according to a leading psychiatrist at The Australian National University.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 25, 2012 |
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APA task force recommends treatment guidelines and position statements on transgender persons
A report from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) recommends the development of clinical practice guidelines for psychiatrists caring for patients who are transgender. ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 02, 2012 |
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Bias found in mental health drug research presented at major psychiatric meeting
When thousands of psychiatrists attend their field's largest annual meeting each year, the presentations they hear about research into drug treatments report overwhelmingly on positive results.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 22, 2012 |
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