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Invitation to Sponsor/ Exhibit @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7-14th)
We invite organizations shaping the future of brain health and health overall to become Sponsors or Exhibitors @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Optimizing Health through Neuroplasticity, Innovation and Data (June 7-14th, 2012), in order to expand a critical conversation, engage an influencial community of early-adopters and decision-makers, and showcase innovative research, solutions, and services during the Summit Expo (June 12-13th). You can learn more via this Sponsorship Brochure (opens PDF), and also consult this Sample of Participants in 2010/ 2011 SharpBrains Summits (opens PDF). Participa...
Source: SharpBrains - April 19, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness data Expo future innovation neuroplasticity sponsorship Source Type: blogs

A.M. Vitals: Human Genome Sciences Rejects Glaxo’s $2.6 Billion Bid
iStockphoto Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Glaxo Bids for Human Genome Sciences (WSJ): The U.K. company’s longtime research partner rejected the $2.6 billion offer, a wager by Glaxo on the prospects of drugs discovered using Human Genome Sciences technology. Veterans Department to Increase Mental Health Staffing (New York Times): In a move to cut lengthy wait times, the VA plans to hire about 1,600 more psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental-health workers. You’re Never Too Old to Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk With Exercise (Los Angeles Times): A study published in Neurology...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - April 19, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Mark Long Tags: Drugs Alzheimer's Genetics Hepatitis C Veterans Administration WSJ Source Type: blogs

Invasive Strip Searches Halted at Michigan Women’s Prison
[Note: this post and the linked materials contain graphic discussion of sexual abuse, rape, and prison genital searches.] A Michigan women’s prison that was practicing a particularly degrading type of visual body cavity search on prisoners has agreed to stop the searches. Earlier this month, the ACLU sent a letter to the Michigan Department of Corrections demanding that they end the practice of performing spread-labia vaginal searches at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility. During such searches, women were required to sit on a chair or table and spread their own labia for inspection by prison guards. T...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - April 18, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Rachel Tags: Activism & Resources Legal Public Policy Violence & Abuse Source Type: blogs

5 Tips to Reduce Your Stress Right Now
This article was written by Carter Harkins. Stress is at epidemic levels in our population. The American Psychological Association released its Stress in America 2011 Report earlier this year, and according to the report, 73% of us think our stress levels are the same or higher than they were 5 years ago [1]. Ninety-four percent of us believe that stress can contribute to the development of major illnesses such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes and depression, but only 29% say that they are doing an excellent or good job at managing or reducing stress. Clearly, this is cause for concern. ...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - April 18, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Guest Writer Source Type: blogs

Over on Clinical Psychiatry News....
Check out our CPN site where Roy is talking about Stage 2 Meaningful Use, and I've put down my final words (I hope!) on strip searching psych patients. Do Check It Out if you'd like to see what we have to say, and to all those who helped me with this article, please accept my gratitude! Roy and I would both love your feedback. Lately, I feel like a moving obsession...I was preoccupied with medical marijuana legislation for a bit, then with how body searches are conducted of our patients, at the moment I'm reading Kaitlin Bell Barnett's new book Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up....my review is forthco...
Source: Shrink Rap - April 18, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Lithium, vomiting and diarrhoea
Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Lithium, vomiting and diarrhoeaaka Toxicology Conundrum 048This is the case:A 26 year-old male, weighing 82kg was brought to ED via ambulance with nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, approximately two hours after swallowing 180 x 450g of sustained release lithium carbonate tablets (= 81 grams) with suicidal intent. He had a history of recreational drug abuse, suicidal behaviour and had been prescribed lithium the previous day by his private psychiatrist for newly diagnosed bipolar affective disorder. He had not been on lithium prior to this. He denied any other substance ingestion and no oth...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 17, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Joe Rotella Tags: Clinical Case Emergency Medicine Featured Toxicology Toxicology Quiz acute toxicity lithium overdose Toxicology Conundrum Source Type: blogs

Randomized Clinical Study Taps Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Depression
People suffering from depression frequently don’t respond well to treatment. As many as two thirds of patients report that the first antidepressant they try is ineffective, according to WebMD. And as many as one third of patients don’t respond to multiple attempts to treat them.A recent, small study at Emory University indicated that deep-brain stimulation (DBS) could help patients with severe depression that is resistant to treatment. Following up on that, a nationwide randomized clinical research study will investigate the use of DBS in patients with major depression.Read More
Source: Medgadget - April 17, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Brian Klein Tags: Neurological Surgery Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

American Psychiatric Association-APA 2012 Philly: Pharma goes to Philly with "Product Theaters"
Source: soulful sepulcher - April 17, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Tags: APA 2012 Source Type: blogs

Grace Kearney Writes an Award Winning Essay About Alzheimer's
Through the Looking Glass: Understanding the World of the Alzheimer’s Patient By Max Wallack Alzheimer's Reading Room Each year the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America offers several scholarships for graduating high school seniors. Scholarships are offered for both essay and video entries. This year's winning entry was written by Grace Kearney from Baltimore, Maryland. Please take the time to read this remarkable essay. Congratulations Grace! Through the Looking Glass: Understanding the World of the Alzheimer’s Patient By Grace Kearney The waiting room could belong to a dentist’s office. There are bright li...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 17, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Max Wallack Source Type: blogs

EHRs & Privacy: Am I The Only One Who Cares About This Stuff?
Electronic Health Records are a wonderful thing. They allow for the easy access of information from one doc to another. Now when the patient takes the white pill for that bump, I can go in to the records and see what the bump was and what the white pill is. Once in a great while, it has meaning for their psychiatric care, and it's good for general curiosity, too, and periodically, I may help with the education process if it seems important that the patient should have a greater understanding of their bumps. Roy likes EHRs and President Obama will pay you tens of thousands of dollars to implem...
Source: Shrink Rap - April 17, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Adolescents can benefit from 12-step involvement
An assessment of 12-step meetings and recommended activities has found that attendance, participation, and finding a sponsor promote greater abstinence among adolescents.Adolescents who misuse alcohol and other drugs to the point where they need treatment must contend with costly and limited options for youth-specific care, as well as high relapse rates following treatment. Mutual-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are widely available but little research has addressed their benefits for adolescents. An assessment of 12-step meetings and recommended activities has found that attendan...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - April 16, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Addictions Alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Drugs Narcotics Anonymous Recovery abstinence among adolescents Adolescents can benefit finding a sponsor Source Type: blogs

Dr.Steven Moffic: Psychiatrist, writer at Psychiatric Times & Mad In America: Can Psychiatric Approaches Help to Address Global Warming?
Source: soulful sepulcher - April 16, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Tags: APA 2012 Source Type: blogs

Interview with writer Will Self part 2
Will Self interview by Prof Femi Oyebode (part 1 with me found here) in November 2010 WS: I’ve been very interested in the psychiatric profession and though out my fiction and my nonfiction and have written on visions related to psychiatry, so in a way when it comes to reading to you I’m presented with an embarrassment of riches. So I’m going to confine myself to my latest book, available in all good bookshops at the seductive price of £17.99. No one, not even the most exalted mental health professionals would see this for a second as being in any way analogous to £18 but will see it as significantly cheaper. It’...
- April 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Frontier Psychiatrist Tags: Books Films Television Thinking about psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Kids as Psychiatric Patients?
Parents tell the therapist that their young child has a problem. Deciding who to deliver help to is of the essence. It is not always the child.Contributor: David A. Reinstein, LCSWPublished: Apr 16, 2012
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - April 16, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

The residency journey is just getting started
Every career has that one question that is notoriously hated by all. For nurses, that question is, “So, why didn’t you want to be a doctor?” For teachers, it’s questions about the age-old adage, “Those who can’t do, teach.” For medical students, that question is, “So, do you know what you want to do?”It’s not that people who ask medical students about their career plans are ill-intentioned or nosy; in fact, the question seems like natural small talk to non-medical folk. The truth is, it’s an extremely overwhelming and personal decision. Medical students are exposed to only a few week of core special...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 16, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Education Medical school Residency newtag Source Type: blogs

Battling depression with "battery-powered brains" - CNN report on deep brain stimulation (DBS)
CNN reports on treating severe depression with electrodes inside the brain: The procedure -- called deep brain stimulation, or DBS -- targets a small brain structure known as Area 25, the "ringleader" for the brain circuits that control our moods. Area 25 is relatively overactive in depressed patients. One hypothesis is that in patients who do not improve with treatments for depression, Area 25 is somehow stuck in overdrive. DBS had been used since 1997 as a treatment for movement disorders, including essential tremor, Parkinson's disease and dystonia. References: Treating depression with electrodes inside th...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - April 16, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: Video Depression Psychiatry Neurology CNN Surgery Source Type: blogs

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The Gospel reading for Sunday may be the dream of Thomas. The fact that that this took place in a morning period is nicely illustrated by the first reading which conforms to our present practice of bring food to the home of the deceased for the mourning family.
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - April 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

When Dad Has Postpartum Depression
This study found that depressed dads were less likely to read to their kids or sing, play and tell them stories. Psychiatrist Paul Ramchandani told Slate magazine (in this article by Emily Anthes): “Depression affects how fathers interact with their children. They may be more irritable, they may be more withdrawn. That might affect children’s understanding of emotions and how they learn to regulate their own emotions.” Anthes added: “Mood problems may also influence fathers’ ability to work, affect the strength of their marital relationships, and more — any of which could put their kids at r...
Source: World of Psychology - April 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books Children and Teens Depression Disorders Family General Men's Issues Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Self-Help Sleep Stress Women's Issues American Medical Association Anthes Compulsions Depressed Mood Detachmen Source Type: blogs

Mastering Motivation
Conclusion Counseling can be incredibly helpful for understanding and improving motivation issues. If you have difficulty with motivation and are interested in going further in depth on this stuff, you can contact me here (link) to set up an appointment.
Source: Staff Psychologist - April 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Blog Source Type: blogs

Impulsivity and Business Success
Answer - it depends. In the paper Taking More Now: The Optimality of Impulsive Choice Hinges on Environment Structure, researchers at the University of Texas found that the reward environment involving choices determined whether highly impulsive test subjects performed better or worse than their low-impulsive testing counterparts. The test involve college students who were administered a personality test that estimated trait-impulsivity. The experiment involved planning a business investment game which varied the conditions to optimize rewards either in the short term (e.g. cut costs, immediate boost in profits) or long...
Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog - April 16, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide Source Type: blogs

Paradise Given and Paradise Lost…
This somehow “speaks” to me and sparks my interest when I think about it and type it. To go from the top of the hill and then to the bottom chutes and ladders style. Wow, did I take that wrong turn at Albuquerque? If you dwell on it, it can make you bitter old man or woman. “What’s this schizophrenia you speak of?” I often say that until I am faced with a major flare-up. I can go quite a period of time without a flare-up and I will get cocky and self-assured. “You don’t have schizophrenia. You're cured!” my body will say that with my rational brain trying to get the upper hand before thing...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - April 16, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Is Impulsivity a Bad Thing?
Answer - it depends. In the paper Taking More Now: The Optimality of Impulsive Choice Hinges on Environment Structure, researchers at the University of Texas found that the reward environment involving choices determined whether highly impulsive test subjects performed better or worse than their low-impulsive testing counterparts. The test involve college students who were administered a personality test that estimated trait-impulsivity. The experiment involved planning a business investment game which varied the conditions to optimize rewards either in the short term (e.g. cut costs, immediate boost in profits) or long t...
Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog - April 16, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide Source Type: blogs

Psychiatrist Dr. Steven Moffic writes at Psychiatric Times & Mad In America: wants to "Occupy Medicine" at the APA 2012
Source: soulful sepulcher - April 15, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Tags: APA 2012 Source Type: blogs

Tips to fight depression during medical residency
Even though I love my job, I’ve been feeling a little burned out lately. I think it comes from being stretched too thin, which is something I’ve coped with off an on ever since med school.As the saying goes, there are never enough hours in the day, and sometimes that really gets to me. While my practice is incredibly important, I also place a lot of value on my family. When I don’t get to spend much time with my husband and two children, I don’t just feel upset … I feel guilty, too, and those feelings wear on me every day.Read the rest of Tips to fight depression during medical residency on KevinMD.com.Category: ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 15, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Physician Psychiatry Residency newtag Source Type: blogs

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I guess I got a comment lost on the SYG law in the Martin case but I'll check back.
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - April 15, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Confessions of a Recovering Hoarder
Hoarding is a serious psychiatric disorder that affects your mental and physical health. Like any addiction, you never cure it, but you can learn to control it.Contributor: Deborah AldridgePublished: Apr 14, 2012
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - April 14, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

The Book of Nurses: Vicky.
OK then, to start off tell us what country/area you live in, how long you have been nursing for, what areas you have worked in and the specialty you currently work in. I’m currently working in Western Australia in Perth where I’ve been for the past nine years, although I actually trained in the UK qualifying in 1997. My first job was on an acute medical ward where occasionally I found myself being the only qualified nurse looking after 21 patients. After a couple of years of that I got sick of feeding rice pudding to CVA patients and decided to switch to emergency where I’ve pretty much stayed ever since ...
Source: impactEDnurse - April 14, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: not just a nurse. Source Type: blogs

*Petition Shout*: Royal College of #Psychiatrists: Abolish the use of formal psychiatric diagnostic systems like ICD and DSM #mhuk #ukmh
http://www.change.org/petitions/royal-college-of-psychiatrists-abolish-the-use-of-formal-psychiatric-diagnostic-systems-like-icd-and-dsm Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 14, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Child Paralyzed By Vaccinations And Stolen From Mother By State
Emma is confined to a wheelchair. She became paralyzed after being vaccinated. **Names have been changed to protect the identity of this family. All quotes are mother’s exact words and it must be noted that her first language is not English. Emma is a six year old little girl who is suffering from severe vaccine damage which has been verified by several leading experts. Emma is totally paralyzed and unable to move any part of her body. She cannot speak and breaths with the aid of a small tube inserted through a tiny incision in her windpipe called a tracheotomy. Instead of the help and compensation her family shou...
Source: vactruth.com - April 13, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories MMR vaccine Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) side effects vaccine Vaccine Induced Disease (VID) Source Type: blogs

Chris Grayling: The Compulsive Liar at the Heart of Government
Reblogged from the void: There appears to be little agreement amongst psychiatrists as to whether compulsive or pathological lying is a genuine personality disorder, whether it is a symptom of another condition, or whether in fact, some people are just lying bastards. One thing seems clear which is if it is left untreated it can develop into a delusional state in which the individual barely knows whether they are telling the truth themselves. Read more… 1,560 more words Saying what he means and meaning what he says...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 13, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Pharma People Pioneers on Pinterest
I have been keeping track of pharmaceutical employees who have personal accounts on Twitter for over a year (see "More Pharma Social Media Pioneers Recognized"). There are currently 105 people on the list (find it here).I do this for several reasons:to see if the people who "talk the talk" of pharma social media actually "walk the walk" (only 40% of pharma people who have taken my Social Marketing Readiness Self-Assessment personally use social media "frequently; fill out the assessment here and see more results),to keep track of how these pioneers are using social media, andto help me communicate with them (it's often imp...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - April 13, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: Novo Nordisk ePharma Pioneer Club social media Pinterest Craig DeLarge Twitter Source Type: blogs

Thoughts on the validity of subtypes of sensory processing disorder
There is a study that was announced this week by the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation about classification of sensory processing differences in children (James, et. al, 2011). The study describes a process of using cluster analysis to differentiate subtypes of sensory processing disorder. Results of this study indicate support for the empirical nosology proposed by Miller, et.al. (2007).Schaaf and Davies (2010) explicitly talked about the need to careful consideration while we are refining and redefining sensory integration or sensory processing concepts. In their article they commended Lucy Miller's group for advan...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - April 13, 2012 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Suffering for art is still suffering
Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait in Hell (1903)"I inherited two of mankind's most frightful enemies — the inheritance of consumption and insanity — disease and madness and death were the black angels that stood at my cradle." 1 -Edvard MunchMany contemporary observers believe that Edvard Munch, the brilliant Norwegian artist best known for The Scream, had bipolar disorder. According to Rothenberg (2001):A diagnosis of bipolar disorder with psychosis is based on his own diary descriptions of visual and auditory hallucinations, a multiply documented instance of his travelling throughout Europe manifesting manic disrupted beha...
Source: The Neurocritic - April 13, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

Poll Results and the Limelight...
Over on Clinical Psychiatry News, Roy is writing about using the color Lime for mental illness awareness...do check it out. Apparently it works for Lyme Disease, Lymphoma, and Muscular Dystrophy, too, but here in psych we like to be inclusive and co-morbidity is always an issue. If you took my poll on patient searches or helped with comments I can use for quotes, thank you so much. The survey results are here, please remember these are not science, not even a little, and I left it to the reader to define "strip search" so it's really just a snapshot: Were you Strip Searched upon admission? Yes 2742% No. 385...
Source: Shrink Rap - April 13, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Excessive Worrying May Have Co-Evolved with Intelligence
Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions. Jeremy Coplan, MD, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Downstate, and colleagues found that high intelligence and worry both correlate with brain activity measured by the depletion of the nutrient [...]
Source: Biosingularity - April 12, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off #Psychiatric Drugs and Withdrawal by Will Hall. #ukmh #mhuk
http://willhall.net/comingoffmeds/ Thanks Eleni for this link. Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 12, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

My Story: Old Song, New Hope
This isn’t the blog post I planned to write. I might get to that one eventually; it’s still kicking around in my head and I still know what I want to say. But this one — I needed to make a couple of stops on the way home, and I didn’t, because I had to race back to the laptop. The words kept wanting out. When you’re a writer, that’s how you know you’re on to something. While I was out driving around, this old song, “Hold On,” by Kansas, came on the radio station. I grew up — in Kansas, poetically enough — listening to Kansas and Styx and Rush and Van Halen and Peter Frampton, and yes, even...
Source: World of Psychology - April 11, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Candy Czernicki Tags: Bipolar Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Esteem Treatment 10th Grade 1950s 1960s 40s Adolescence Bipolar Ii Decades Happy Memories Haze Innocence Look In The Mirror New Hope Oldi Source Type: blogs

Hypnotherapy for Tinnitus
Does hypnotherapy really work? A lot of people will ask this question because there is a great deal of mystery about it. Conventional physicians often scorn at those who practice hypnotherapy, but there are those who vouch about the positives. So whom do you believe? Did you know that even the conventional medical science is today looking at hypnotherapy for an answer to various illnesses? Yes, that's true. Psychiatrists and psychologists are now increasingly turning to hypnotherapy to reach into the mind of the patient. They are beginning to believe that since the mind can control the body, it can be retrained to heal a c...
Source: My Page - April 11, 2012 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

The Amazing World of Psychiatry
Buffer In a blog post with the title: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence the author of the blog The Amazing World of Psychiatry wrote an extensive review of the blogs written by psychiatrists with links to pages of interest. The most important blogs written by psychiatrists in the Blogosphere are securely reviewed and links to several posts are provided with a short introduction. An excellent review Throughout this blog, I have reviewed numerous other blogs and in so doing have curated a very small part of the web. The reviews have been my opinions and interpretations of the blogs and have included links to pages I tho...
Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - April 11, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr Shock Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Dementia Must Be A Global Health Priority - World Health Organization
A report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) calls upon governments, policymakers and other stakeholders to make dementia a global public health priority. Alzheimer's Reading Room Dementia: A Public Health Priority This new report provides the most authoritative overview of the impact of dementia worldwide. To prepare the report, the World Health Organization and ADI commissioned reports from four working groups of experts and sought additional inputs from nearly two dozen international contributors and more than 20 expert reviewers. In addition to...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 11, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

An Alzheimer's Village on Earth
Someone once asked in the comments section, what is going to happen to you if you get Alzheimer's disease? I'm moving to Hogewey. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room I like to think. I like to imagine. Many times I have imagined a kinder, gentler place for the deeply forgetful. Well truth be known, I first imagined a kinder, gentler place for Dotty and me. I already made that happen in our own little Alzheimer's World. Kind, gentle, creating an environment based on trust. Along the path from burden to joy. Dr. Murali Doraiswamy, author of the Alzheimer's Action Plan and chief of biological psychiatry at Duke U...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 11, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Anna Brown And Appropriate Emergency Medical Care
Discussion There are other issues with Ms. Brown, but I think that they tend to detract from the issues regarding her medical care. Ms. Brown was homeless. She had lost custody of her children. She had nine other siblings with whom she did not live during her homelessness. After being admitted to the hospital for spraining her ankle, she resisted discharge at that time as well. Ms. Brown also had potential psychiatric problems and refused some psychiatric testing a court had ordered relating to her child custody problems. There were also questions about the appropriateness of police leaving Ms. Brown laying on the floor in...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - April 10, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Medical-Legal News Commentary Source Type: blogs

Support your local introvert
One of the Psychology Today blogs, Are Introverts Nuts? caught my eye yesterday because it reminded me of yet one more reason to find fault with the proposed DSM V - The APA’s proposed definition of introversion is: “Withdrawal from other people, ranging from intimate relationships to the world at large; restricted affective experience and expression; limited hedonic capacity.” The definition also includes "deficit in the capacity to feel pleasure or take interest in things." Oy, one more category of people to pathologize and probably medicate! But my day was brightened when I ran across this on...
Source: Jung At Heart - April 10, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Apr 10, Ethics in Forensic Psychology
Ethics in forensic psychology: In her book titled, Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice, Margaret Hagen, an experimental psychologist and...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - April 10, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Beginning twitter for physicians
Buffer During our annual conference of the Dutch Association for Psychiatry we had an interesting discussion about the use of twitter for psychiatrists. Ethical as well as practical aspects of the use of twitter were discussed. The main question from the audience was: Why should we use twitter. We hope we could convince some of them of the advantages of using twitter. My part of the session was a Twitter for Dummies session. In a short presentation I mentioned the most important rules to obey when starting with twitter as a physician. In short these rules were: Use a short username with as few characters as possible sinc...
Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - April 10, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr Shock Tags: Academic The Twitter Book Source Type: blogs