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Professor nemeroff goes to london
THREE STRIKES AND …Professor Charles Nemeroff is being honored today in London. He will deliver a high profile lecture at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, a component of The University of London. IoP and its associated Maudsley Hospital have long been at the forefront of psychiatric research in Britain. The occasion today is the establishment of a new program on mood disorders, and Professor Nemeroff’s topic will be “The Neurobiology of Child Abuse: Treatment Implications.” He will be introduced by Professor Allan Young and the vote of thanks will be proposed by Professor Sir Robin Murray, a fo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: University of London Institute of Psychiatry Charles Nemeroff King's College London Sir Robin Murray Allan Young Maudsley Hospital Carmine Pariante Shitij Kapur Bernard Carroll Source Type: blogs

Just sayin’
Psychiatric Predictive Value of the Voice Message Had voice messages existed in the past, there would be a Budhist riddle to the effect of “what is the sound of one man conversing?”. For most of us, the answer to this riddle would be “awkward”. Human communication relies on feedback and cues from an audience. Sustained solo communication just feels weird. Health budgets are about to be squeezed like the bowels of a patient being disimpacted. To extrapolate the analogy further, the likely result coming out of both patient and cuts will be the same. Each challenge requires innovative solutions, and here our friend th...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Jarrad Hall Tags: Featured Medical Humor psychopathy voice message Source Type: blogs

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Again Greg Mankiw has an article Defending the One Percent. On another topic, I think Obama's decision to extend air cover over a part of Syria is thoughtful. Also I hav really been shocked by the fact that if it weren't for the Apaches and Comanches, much of the area north of Mexico would be or have been Spanish and then Mexican. This is part of the perspective of Empire of the Summer Moon. (Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans)
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - June 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

A Weak Smoker’s Vaccine Might Be Worse Than None
New PET scans show wide responses to antibodies. One of the brightest hopes of addiction science has been the idea of a vaccine—an antibody that would scavenge for drug molecules, bind to them, and make it impossible for them to cross the blood-brain barrier and go to work. But there are dozens of good reasons why this seemingly straightforward approach to medical treatment of addiction is devilishly difficult to perform in practice. Last January, health care company Novartis threw in the towel on NicVax, a nicotine vaccine that failed to beat placebos in Phase III clinical trials for the FDA. And back in 2010, a re...
Source: Addiction Inbox - June 16, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

More Telomerase Activity In Depressed People
Telomere caps on chromosomes shorten every time a cell divides and short telomeres interfere with cell division. However, in some conditions cellls turn on an enzyme, telomerase, that lengthens telomeres. Higher telomerase activity in depressed people might be an attempt by the body to boost neurogenesis against depression. Now a research team led by Owen Wolkowitz, MD, professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco, has found that within cells of the immune system, activity of an enzyme called telomerase is greater, on average, in untreated individuals with major depression. The preliminary findings from his latest, ongoing ...
Source: FuturePundit - June 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs

Deja vu for deja vus
A colleague told me once that in one of the Iraqi board exams a question was difficult and it says: (Discuss the statement: “A delusion is a delusion even if proved to be true”). This phrase was taken from Fish’s psychopathology if I was not wrong. I am not writing here to discuss this statement but I am writing since I am much hurt by the misunderstanding that veils psychiatry. The film starts with his waking up from a dream in which he sees a crime: “two men fighting on the beach of Deauville till death while a third man watching.” He wakes up and goes to the bathroom. He is frightened to see a beautiful lady w...
Source: psychiatry for all - June 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Shrinky Stuff Around the Web
Today, I'm just going to point out some links by others who are talking about the same types of things we've been talking about here on Shrink Rap. Regarding everyone's favorite topic, involuntary treatment, Dr. Greg Smith talks about his experiences committing people at Are You Ready to Commit? On the Huffington Post, Erin Hawkes writes Medicate Me Even When I Refuse. And Pete Earley talks about the safety of tasers in Tasers: Friend of Foe. On the topic of privacy, PsychPractice wrote a post for me defining HIPAA. See What, Exactly is HIPAA? And while Rob has talked about how he does not like...
Source: Shrink Rap - June 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Stop prescribing benzodiazepines for anxiety
As a physician in a rural health clinic, I frequently see patients who complain of anxiety. The majority of these patients are in their 20s to 40s. Some have never been evaluated by a mental health professional, and many of these patients take benzodiazepines on a chronic basis. After current review, I wonder if we as primary care physicians are good at treating anxiety, or are we contributing to drug dependency? Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 14, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Meds Medications Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

A New Biomarker for Treatment Response in Major Depression? Not Yet.
Is a laboratory test or brain scanning method for diagnosing psychiatric disorders right around the corner? How about a test to choose the best method of treatment? Many labs around the world are working to solve these problems, but we don't yet have such diagnostic procedures (despite what some might claim). A new study by McGrath et al. (2013) might be a step in that direction, but the results are very preliminary and await further validation.The principal investigator of that study is Dr. Helen Mayberg, a leader in neuroimaging studies of major depression. She and her colleagues have pioneered the use of deep brain stim...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

Senator Roy Blunt: Would His Laws Really Help Mental Health?
Senator Roy Blunt from Missouri yesterday published an editorial in USA Today lamenting President Obama’s lack of movement on mental health legislation after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. And while Senator’s Blunts concerns are perhaps well-intentioned, his invocation of Sandy Hook in relation to “mental health” is about as tenuous a connection one could make about two, largely unrelated subjects. Because in his editorial, Senator Blunt glosses over one inconvenient fact — Sandy Hook’s perpetrator, Adam Lanza, had no diagnosed mental disorder, nor was he apparently ever see...
Source: World of Psychology - June 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Aspergers Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Violence and Aggression Asperger S Syndrome Chief Psychiatrist Columnist Richard Cohen Dr Harold Glosses Gun Control Bill Human Judgment Inconvenient Fact Source Type: blogs

First Therapist Appointment!
I had a total melt down and freak out before my counseling appointment yesterday over nothing. I actually had to take a klonipin just to get myself THERE without totally breaking down! I was almost in hysterics, crying and crying. What in the world is wrong with me? What was I so scared of? Of course I know the answer to that, but no one can force me to do or say anything I don't want to.The therapist was very nice, and she held my psychiatrist in such high regard - so much so that she was even surprised I was able to just call and get an appointment to see her. Yes, my psychiatrist was ...
Source: bipolar.and.me - June 13, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

ProPublica Publishes Medicare Part D Prescriber Data
In 2010, the "investigative journalist organization" known as ProPubilca, through donations from the Pew Foundation and several other organizations geared towards attacking industry, began the "Dollars for Docs" campaign. As we have covered extensively since the launch of that campaign, ProPublica aggregated the payment reporting data of approximately 15 manufacturers who were reporting their payments publicly—either as a requirement of a corporate integrity agreement (CIA) with HHS-OIG, or voluntarily—and then created a searchable, aggregated website. Additionally, ProPublica teamed up with national and local medi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - June 13, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Surgery for the future - enhancing function !
Typically surgery , has always been about correcting anatomical problems. If you broke a bone , the doctor joined it for you; if you had a tumour, he cut it out; and if you had an abscess , he drained it. In the future , surgery will become much more exciting , because rather than focus on fixing problems, clever surgeons and biomedical scientists will create procedures which will enhance function in normal people.Thus, for example , functional neurosurgery will allow normal people to improve their memory while phonic surgery on the vocal cords will allow people who have a good voice to make it even better because of surgi...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - June 12, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: surgeons future of surgery Source Type: blogs

Tarnished Image? Psychiatrists Square Off Over A Nemeroff Lecture
For the second time in little more than a year, Charles Nemeroff is the subject of protest by other psychiatrists. The latest instance involves an invitation by the Institute of Psychiatry, the leading center in the UK for psychiatric research, to the University of Miami psychiatry professor to lecture next week at its new Centre for Affective Disorders. A group of UK psychiatrists, however, object to the invitation and point to his tenure as a sort of poster boy for undisclosed conflicts of interest. In the view of the Critical Psychiatry Network, which his planned appearance will reflect badly on all psychiatrists and th...
Source: Pharmalot - June 12, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

Charles Nemeroff - Honoured in Britain, the US psychiatrist who took $1.2m from drug companies
Britain’s premier institute for the study of mental illness has become embroiled in a damaging row over its decision to invite a disgraced US academic to give the inaugural lecture for a new research centre.The decision by the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, in central London, Europe’s largest psychiatric research organisation, to invite Professor Charles Nemeroff, an expert in the treatment of depression, has split the psychiatric profession and been attacked by members of the institute itself. Professor Nemeroff, a leading authority on the biological causes of mental illness, is one of the highest profile d...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 12, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: Anxiety disorders (Clinical Psychologist). Open-access journal publishing in psychology (Psychological Inquiry). open access Resilience in child development (The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry). Exploring Cognitive Readiness in Complex Operational Environments (Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making). Disgust (Psychological Bulletin). Neuroscience of sleep (Nature). Cognitive science approach to developmental disorders (Japanese Psychological Research). Mapping the brain (Nature). open access Styles, approaches, and patterns in student l...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

No dishonour in depression
Comedian and writer Ruby Wax, a regular on British television, has clinical depression. In her book published last week, Sane New World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013), she describes her struggles with different therapies and her fear of being ‘found out’. She is not alone. A 2010 survey in Europe revealed that 38% of people had a diagnosed mental disorder — including 7% with major depression. The proportion is likely to be similar in all populations, even in Africa, where psychiatric disease barely features on the health agenda.The stigma attached to such disorders means that many people do not admit to the...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 12, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Healing the Overwhelmed Physician - by Jerry Avorn
BOSTON — DURING an 1817 visit to Florence, the French author Marie-Henri Beyle, known by the pen name Stendhal, was seized by palpitations, dizziness and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the abundance of great art surrounding him; an Italian psychiatrist later coined the term Stendhal syndrome to describe this phenomenon. Enlarge This Image Sophia Martineck Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow@nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow@andyrNYT. We physicians are susceptible to a kind of medical Stendhal syndrome as we confront the volumino...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 12, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Quick Relief from Emotional Suffering? This One Simple Thing Could Help
Is it really possible to snap out of your worries in no time? It seems so, according to a paper recently published in the journal Medical Hypotheses. The paper is based on two major assumptions. One is that inward cognitive attention is the cause of all emotional suffering. And two is that emotional suffering can be overcome by simple acts of outward cognitive attention. Evidence suggests that emotional distress — and all major psychiatric disorders — are associated with a state of excessive inward attention. And inward attention that is excessive in its intensity or duration could easily become pathological o...
Source: World of Psychology - June 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Rohith Sebastian Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Research anxiety Anxious Thoughts Assumptions Contemplation Duration Emotional Distress Emotions Intensity Journal Medical Medical Hypotheses Neural Source Type: blogs

A psychiatric disorder or a profound lack of discipline in our kids?
It is hard to see a child in pain. I have seen quite a few children in the emergency departments of South Carolina in the past three years, more than I could have imagined just a while ago. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I am not a child psychiatrist by trade. Like any general psychiatrist, my training provided me with didactic and clinical training in a variety of sub-specialties in my field, including affective disorders, substance abuse, and the disorders that children may suffer from. Most hospitals that I work in now, desperate for help with children who come in sick and in need of assistance, grant me and o...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Physician Pediatrics Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

HIP HIP HIPAA HOORAY! Where's My Medical Privacy?
And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. * * * Today, I"m ranting about medical privacy (now gone) and electronic medical records over on KevinMD. The link is HERE. Did you know that hospitals now send your medical information to the state (at least in our state), whether you want that or not? And while you're rea...
Source: Shrink Rap - June 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

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Greg Mankiw referred to his comencement address the other day. He said in part:It is an honor to be able to speak to you today. When Mr. Conrad invited me, he suggested that maybe, as a professional economist, I could talk with you about the future economy that you will soon be entering and in which you will be spending your lives. It is true that as an economist, I know precisely what the future holds. But union rules prevent me from sharing that knowledge with the general public. So we economists usually just make stuff up, and it often turns out to be wrong. I won’t burden you with those made-up stories today. The who...
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - June 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Neurofeedback Therapy an Effective, Non-Drug Treatment for ADHD
Pills are not the only way to manage your child’s inappropriate or maladaptive behaviors. Neurofeedback therapy is a safe, non-invasive, alternative option for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents. In November 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics approved biofeedback and neurofeedback as a Level 1 or “best support” treatment option for children suffering from ADHD. For parents looking for an effective, non-drug treatment of ADHD, neurofeedback is one worth serious consideration. It is estimated that two million children in the United States are struggling ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Kristi DeName Tags: ADHD and ADD Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Disorders General Research Technology Treatment Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd Beta Waves Bi Source Type: blogs

Saving Grady: Reflections On Kate Neuhausen’s Narrative Matters Essay
In the past 12 years, several of our nation’s most storied public hospitals have closed, including DC General (2001), New Orleans’s Charity Hospital (2005), and Martin Luther King, Jr. hospital in Los Angeles (2007). When Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital was featured on the front page of The New York Times on Jan 8, 2008, it was widely assumed it would be the next to go. However, at its darkest hour, Grady received help from an unexpected quarter. In the June issue of Health Affairs, a young physician, Dr. Kate Neuhausen, describes how she and other leaders of a little-known student organization mobilized hundreds ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Arthur Kellermann Tags: All Categories Disparities Hospitals Medicaid Nurses Personal Experience Physicians Policy Politics Public Health Source Type: blogs

Dollars for Doctors in New Hampshire
In another ProPublica-created story, Fosters.com recently did a local piece using the Dollars for Docs database to cover "payments doctors receive from drug makers"—one of the more neutral titles we have seen in a long time, maybe ever (sadly). The article notes that companies paid more than $3.1 million to New Hampshire doctors over the past four years for speaking and consulting work—however, the figure does not include payments for meals, travel or research work. More than 120 physicians in New Hampshire have earned at least $1,000 the data shows. Most received a relatively small sum — the median value was about $...
Source: Policy and Medicine - June 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

DSM-5 Bipolar: Not Much Difference from DSM-IV Bipolar
This is the second (and final) of our look at the DSM-5, the latest version of psychiatry’s diagnostic bible, which has superseded the DSM-IV, dating from 1994. In case you’re wondering, the stylistic change from the Roman numeral IV to the modernistic 5 represents the DSM’s major innovation. Just about everything else is distressingly same-old, same-old. Last week, in The DSM-5 Debacle, we looked at the failure... (Source: John McManamy's SharePosts)
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - June 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

Advocacy: Striving for Wholeness after Mental Health Awareness Month
May marked the end of another Mental Health Awareness Month. From the Newtown, Conn. tragedy in December 2012, to the Oscar-winning movie Silver Linings Playbook and all the way through the DSM-5 controversy this spring, mental illness has certainly been getting plenty of attention in the news. Spanning the horrific to the enlightening, from the uplifting to the nitty-gritty, these three cultural talking points alone have been reshaping America’s ongoing thinking about a frequently overlooked aspect of our general health. Considered in itself (or in its partial absence, illness), mental health shapes the rest of ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Lisa A. Miles Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Research Treatment advocacy. disease Borderline Personality Disorder Continuum Coping With Stress Disability Concerns Dsm Dsm 5 Em Source Type: blogs

Onward to the murky swamps of the DSM
Since it turns out that Eric Holder and James Clapper already know all about my pathetic social life (and BTW, Glenn Greenwald says there is more to come), I might as well fess up here. I was bummed out a while back by a relationship that didn't work out, and I'm still kinda bummed out. I don't happen to want to talk to a professional counselor about it, but somebody else might. Do I have a disease? What if I stay sad for a really long time? Do I have a disease after six weeks, or six months? Do I have to be more than a certain amount sad? What difference does it make what you call it?As you may recall, drug companies used...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: June 7, 2013
One of the greatest negative contributors to your health and well-being isn’t just illness, it’s stress. Unfortunately, stress is a household name these days. Everyone seems to be experiencing it on different levels. We’re worried about the future of the world as much as we’re concerned about the future of our children. But no matter what we’re going through, all problems lead to the same basic solutions. We can accept what’s given and find ways to control what we can. Sometimes this means focusing on what’s working in our lives and practicing gratitude. It could also mean being mo...
Source: World of Psychology - June 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Addiction Treatment Addresses Adult Relationships Amp Basic Solutions Depression Dr Linda Future Of The World Future World Gratitude Happiness Hatch Household Name Mental Illness Mindful Parenting Mom And Source Type: blogs

My EPIC Meltdown
The hospital where I work one morning a week is changing it's electronic medical record system. I've never like the current EPR because of privacy issues -- anyone with access can get into anyone else's record. As an employee of the hospital, I don't like that so many people I know could read my medical record if I got my care there, and so I get care elsewhere. HIPAA violation, you say? Yes, but there's no up-front stop on looking at anyone's record, the violation and sanctions come if you get caught. Aside from the privacy issue, psychiatry does not add outpatient notes to the record....
Source: Shrink Rap - June 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Link feast
This study is about psychology, and should not have involved an MRI scanner," the excellent Neuroskeptic blog makes the case that a brain imaging study into people's reactions to strabismus would have been much better off without the brain imaging. 2. Why do identical twins end up having such different lives? 3. Keith Laws, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, wrote a provocative blog post on the problems with the case formulation approach favoured by many clinical psychologists: "It is artistry linked to intuition...in short, it is anti-science..." 4. The surprising psychology of how names shape our thoughts&nb...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Cases: What Do I Say To My Kids?
DISCUSSION: Young children who are informed of their parents’ terminal illness are less anxious than those who are not told , but many terminally ill parents are daunted by this emotionally stressful task. Deciding how to break the news to children is made more difficult when taking into account the developmental level of each child. Palliative Care Teams often have several books available that guide parents through the process of discussing death and dying with their children. Parents’ abilities to apply the information in these books can be further enhanced with a session provided by the behavioral medicine consultan...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 7, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Christian Sinclair Source Type: blogs

Kicking Off The Dirt!
I made an appointment with the therapist that my psychiatrist recommended today, set for Wednesday. We'll see how this goes. Not looking forward to it AT ALL. I've been through this. I know I will leave feeling I've divulged too much, I said things I shouldn't have said, things other people shouldn't know, I will feel guilt and remorse, that the therapist is judging me and now doesn't like me. I will have to talk about things I do not want to think about, she will make comments that will catch me off guard and you know? Why do people do this? Why? It's torture.I've been thinki...
Source: bipolar.and.me - June 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Depression & Seniors: 5 Ways You Can Help
Depression affects people of all ages; it really doesn’t care if you’re a 17-year-old high school student or a 50-something CEO. Depression is non-discriminating and will take you down like a starving grizzly bear, given half a chance. There is one age group that often gets overlooked when it comes to depression and that’s the elderly. In seniors especially, symptoms of depression are sometimes missed or confused with the effects of other illnesses or medication they may be using. Also, the typical symptoms of depression — such as fatigue, lack of appetite and loss of interest in previously lo...
Source: World of Psychology - June 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Drew Coster Tags: Aging Caregivers Depression Disorders Family General Grief and Loss Psychiatry Psychology Self-Help Age Group Aging Process Cardiac Disease Dear Don Depression And The Elderly Depression Elderly Depression Help Depression Source Type: blogs

New Psychiatrist!
So far in my new doctor search, I have struck gold since I've moved! My appointment with my new psychiatrist couldn't have possibly gone any better, I don't think I could have liked her any more than I do. When I walked into her office - she had a little dog, JUST like mine, but maybe twice the size, which is still small, since Bailey weighs 6 pounds. I guess it's a therapy dog? It was a great conversation starter anyway, but she put him away which made me sad but probably very wise. I would have talked and gushed and played with the dog all hour which may have been why she put him in his crat...
Source: bipolar.and.me - June 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Kerching!
Drug companies look to profit from DSM-5June 5, 2013, 8:42 a.m. EDTBinge eating and hoarding diagnoses may lead to new salesBy Jen WiecznerThe changes to the DSM-5, the updated manual of psychiatric illnesses released earlier this month, include 15 new mental disorders. Psychiatrists and consumer advocates hope that the new range of diagnoses will help more people find treatment for their suffering. But drug companies could also see a benefit: It’s likely that the changes will expand the demand for prescription medications that could treat these conditions.The DSM-5’s changes widen the treatment potential for...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 6, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Flu During Pregnancy May Increase Child’s Risk for Bipolar Disorder
Pregnant mothers’ exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared underlying causes and illness processes with schizophrenia, which some studies have also linked to prenatal exposure to influenza. Alan Brown, M.D., M.P.H, of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, a grantee of the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), said: Prospective mothers should take common sense preventive measures...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - June 5, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: NIH Newsbot Source Type: blogs

What I Learned at the National Conference on Mental Health 2013
The National Conference on Mental Health convened by President Obama on Monday was a historic day — not to start a national conversation about mental health, but rather to elevate it. “So many of you have spent decades waging long and lonely battles to be heard,” said the President, in his opening remarks. “Instead, it’s about elevating that conversation to a national level and bringing mental illness out of the shadows.” Indeed. And while I’m preaching to the choir of voices who read this blog regularly, maybe through your social shares and Likes on Facebook, we can reach a few new p...
Source: World of Psychology - June 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychiatry Psychology Treatment Active Minds American Psychological Association Association Of Broadcasters blog Dahlen Decades Eloquent Speech Entrance Hall Facebook Gle Source Type: blogs

No meaningful use help for nursing homes
One of the things I learned from Holly Jarek at Seven Hills Pediatric Center is that pediatric nursing homes are not eligible for federal funding support for electronic health records (i.e, for "meaningful use.") The problem this raises is that the patient information systems between this kind of nursing homes (and adult ones, too) are therefore not integrated with the hospitals and physicians that serve these patients. The patients with the severe complex conditions found at Seven Hills are quite likely to need emergency or other treatment at Children's Hospital or other facilities. Holly pointed out tha...
Source: Running a hospital - June 5, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

The story of #Atos hunger striker George Rolph #MentalHealth #wca #disability #PTSD
Thanks to: http://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/george-rolph-on-hunger-strike-because-of-having-his-benefits-denied-is-censored-by-facebook/ George Rolph We all know about the growing disconnect in this country between those who claim to lead us and the people they want to lead. We have all seen the ever more intrusive nature of government poking into our daily lives. Right now you are on cameras that are watching you closely. Give them a wave and a cheer. We have witnessed the awful corruption going on, both here in the UK, and in the EU. We have sat and gasped as politicians have openly led us into illegal wars i...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - June 5, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Guest Blogger the Late Rabbi Milton Gerald Miller on Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Conquering our Fears.
At the age of 40, my father died after suffering from a heart attack while shoveling the snow. I was a toddler, too young to remember him. I understand that he liked gadgets so I'm assuming he would like the Internet, and techy toys, and that he might even have wanted a blog. I found this sermon he gave, well before I was born, and decided that I would 'invite' my late father to be a guest blogger on Shrink Rap. It was originally delivered as a sermon/lecture on Friday night, August 12th, 1955 as the second of a series on Modern Classics that Helped Change the World. Since my father is not here to ...
Source: Shrink Rap - June 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Stop Working Long Hours: 10 Simple Ways to Maximize Your Productivity
Many of us live in a culture, where working long hours has become an expectation. We are made to believe that if we're not working long enough, then we're not working hard enough. In this tough economic climate, a lot of us feel under pressure to work long hours just to keep our jobs. And even worse, there are some people, who are actually proud that they work 60 hours or more every week. But whether you work long hours out of pressure or out of choice, you should consider some of potential negative effects on your life. According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, people who work more than 11 ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 4, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Omer Khan Tags: productivity tips self improvement motivation time management Source Type: blogs

More on psychiatric diagnosis
Now that we've laid out some foundational issues, this seems a good time to go back to the DSM and finish constructing our deconstruction. Various categories of psychiatric diagnosis present quite different sets of issues. My friend Gary, in The Book of Woe, raises most of them in one way or another but he doesn't march us through them systematically -- it's not that kind of book. I'm a more boring sort of writer, however, so I'll just put the ducks in a row and knock them down.There are indeed various things that can go wrong with our brains which have all the right stuff to be called a specific disease, and treated like ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 3, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Brainsway Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation For Depression Coming to U.S.
Brainsway, having won FDA clearance at the beginning of the year for its Deep TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) system as a treatment option for drug resistant major depressive disorder, is about to begin shipments of its device in the U.S. Deep TMS sets ups highly focused magnetic fields within a special helmet to target specific regions of the brain. In Europe, besides depression treatment, the system is also approved for addressing neuropathic chronic pain, bi-polar disorder, and schizophrenia and is being investigated for conditions such as Parkinson’s, PTSD, and as an aid in quitting smoking.Treatment is c...
Source: Medgadget - June 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Appointment Tomorrow...
Tomorrow is my first appointment with a new psychiatrist since I left my old one in Texas of 12 years. I keep going over and over in my head what I am going to say, but really, I have no idea what I will be asked. I am just going to answer any and all questions as honestly as I possibly can, but I don't really trust doctors. I found a good family doctor here, as well as a good GYN, and I did some research to find a good psychiatrist, but you never know. I wish I could have whatever she is going to ask me beforehand so I would have time to think about the answers. Not being "interviewed" o...
Source: bipolar.and.me - June 3, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

‘#Multimorbidity and #MentalHealth – can psychiatry rise to the challenge?’ #ukmh
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/202/6/391.abstract Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - June 3, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Lybrido for Low Libido?
A feature article in last week's New York Times Magazine served as an extended ad for a new book by Daniel Bergner, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire. It's filled with post-fashionable pop neuroscience and simplistic neurotransmitter stereotypes that rival those of Naomi Wolf (including her infamous “dopamine is the ultimate feminist chemical in the female brain” quote). The focus of Bergner’s article is on pharmaceutical treatments for the controversial diagnosis of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD), particularly the subtly named Lybrido (along with its younger sister, Lybrid...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

Healthy Lifestyle Associated with Fewer Memory Complaints
Research has shown that healthy behaviors are associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia, but less is known about the potential link between positive lifestyle choices and milder memory complaints. +Alzheimer's Reading Room "We found that the more healthy lifestyle behaviors were practiced, the less likely one was to complain about memory issues," said senior author Fernando Torres-Gil, a professor at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and associate director of the UCLA Longevity Center. Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading Room Email: The Gist UCLA researchers and the Gallup organization col...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - June 3, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

When Your Loved One Needs to Move to a Nursing Facility but Refuses to Go
“I often work to convince reluctant spouses to change from being a ‘caregiver’ to being a ‘care advocate’. They can still be vigilant to ensure their loved one is receiving care in an appropriate nursing type facility while preserving their own health.” By Marie Marley +Alzheimer's Reading Room Let’s face it, no one wants to place their loved one with Alzheimer’s in a nursing facility. But sometimes that’s the best (or only) alternative, especially for those in the late-stages of the disease. It takes a large team to care for people in these stages. They need a doctor on call 24 hours a day. Th...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - June 3, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up
For the last 33 years, David Healy, an Irish psychiatrist and professor at Cardiff University School of Medicine in Wales, has written heavily researched university press books and academic journal articles on various aspects of psychopharmaceuticals. His output includes 20 books, 150 peer-reviewed papers and 200 other published works. He is not only well-pedigreed, with degrees and fellowships from Dublin, Galway and Cambridge medical schools, he is a widely recognized expert in both the history and the science of neurochemistry and psychopharmacology.Yet Healy says his output and reputation have ...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 3, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs