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How to Live a Longer, Healthier Life
Back in 1946, when the first baby boomers were born, it was easy to imagine some sort of magic pill that would promise, if not immortality, at least a very long, happy, and healthy life. Darn, another hoped dashed. We are living longer, but not always healthier and happier. Given that the ranks of Americans age 65 and older are soon to swell -- from 13 percent to 18 percent by 2030 -- geneticists, physicians, and psychologists are hard at work figuring out what it takes to thrive into old age. Everyone is aware that they'll probably live longer if they exercise, eat right, and don't smoke. The trick is to get people to do...
Source: Aging with Grace CareConnection - December 28, 2011 Category: Caregivers Tags: aging eldercare healthy living Source Type: blogs

Not Boring At All
Today I want to urge again that if you have an interest in what has happened in mental health and psychiatry, please read 1boringoldman because no one that I am aware of is digging into the research reports and critiquing them as he has and continues to do so. And he is not the least bit boring. Most recently he wrote about the continuing protests from psychotherapist groups over the proposed DSM V. Psychologists in both the US and Britain along with the American Counseling Association have circulated petitions and sent letters of concern to the American Psychiatric Association. That diverse professional groups agree is i...
Source: Jung At Heart - December 28, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Understanding the Credit Crisis
Source: The Psychiatrist Blog - December 28, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: credit crisis Source Type: blogs

Disability and the Military
Image credit War may not be good for much, but it has proved to be an effective incubator for innovation. I’m not just talking about the Slinky: the development of nylon, polythene, and aerosol sprays also benefitted from conflict. The urgency of war has also lead to many of the most important innovations in medicine. It was the battlefield surgeon Ambroise Paré who in the 16th century introduced the ligature of arteries (instead of cauterization) during amputation. An effective treatment for leukaemia emerged from nitrogen mustard’s use as a poisonous gas and Dwight Harken operated on wounded D-Day sold...
- December 28, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Frontier Psychiatrist Tags: BMJ Source Type: blogs

FOX News Autism Experts Worry About DSM5 Impact on High Functioning Autistic Children, No Concern for Low Functioning Autistic Children
FOX News has published a report, Some Experts Worried Over Revised Autism Guidelines, in which two autism experts, Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and Fox News contributor, and Dr. Thomas Frazier, who treats children with autism at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, express their concerns about the possible impact of the DSM-5`s new Autism Spectrum Disorder category on high functioning autistic children. They are concerned that some high functioning autistic children might lose their diagnoses, and access to autism specific education services, although the FOX report does not provide much detail on the basis for t...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - December 28, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Reworking aesthetics for science communication
I recently gave a small talk on aesthetics in didactic contexts at the Department for Science Education. As part of the research for the talk, I spent some time reading up on the history of aesthetic philosophy and particularly on the contribution of the founder of the discipline, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. Being interested in new materialisms in philosophy, Baumgarten’s work (which has been almost overlooked in the past 250 years, highlighted by the fact that the first translation of his work into German in its entirety was not published until 2007) strikes a particular resonance with some of the problems that philo...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - December 27, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: science communication studies Source Type: blogs

5 Fertile Thoughts for Personal Growth: Thinking about Thinking
Personal growth depends to an unknown extent on our ability to be aware of, and think about, our thoughts, feelings and behavior. However if we don’t ‘do internal work’, think deeply about this vast uncharted area, we are certainly going to lead a life that is more lifeless and robotic. If we lead our life as if the world is only outside of us, repeating patterns of behavior, with no self-reflection, what is effective for us at one point in our life cycle, sooner or later, loses it’s effectiveness. Below are five ideas to fertilize thinking about our internal worlds: 1) The first is that even if we chew and grind u...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 27, 2011 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Dr. Clark Falconer Tags: philosophy self improvement how to think pickthebrain productivity tips self discovery self growth thinking Source Type: blogs

Impact factor predicts unreliability of research papers
Last week, we've already seen that the most prominent way of ranking scholarly journals, Thomson Reuters' Impact Factor (IF), isn't a very good measure for predicting how many citations your scientific paper will attract. Instead, there is evidence that IF is much better at predicting the chance that your paper might get retracted.Now, I've just been sent a paper (subscription required) which provides evidence that the reliability of some research papers correlates negatively with journal IF. In other words, the higher the journal's IF in which the paper was published, the less reliable the research is. This particular evi...
Source: bjoern.brembs.net - a neuroscientist's blog : RSS feed of bjoern.brembs.net - December 27, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: bjoern Tags: science politics Source Type: blogs

The Exact Distance of a Tank, Shooting at You
Street shepherds and butchers are gathering in the sidewaysince months. I don't know if there are still slaughterhouses in modern Iraq. Slayingsheep occur as a daily routine in the sideway in our neighborhood. There is a campaign of making Baghdad beautiful by buildingfountains and making gardens in some sideways. Yesterday, a new work of GhaniHiqmat, the deceased, has been accomplished in the center of Baghdad entitled:the magical lantern, which relates to a story from "A Thousand Nights anda Night". As far as I know, no driving license has been issued since2003 in Iraq. Today I was in a bus reading about ...
Source: psychiatry for all - December 26, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Baghdad Beauty Badr Shaki Al-Sayyab Agatha Christie travelling Iraq wars Nairn Transport Co Kuwait invasion Source Type: blogs

Autism Reality NB's 2011 Christmas Wish for Autism's Vast Majority
Conor Doherty, one of Autism's Vast Majority of Invisible Autistics, brings joy to Mom and Dad in the Christmas season and throughout the Year. My 2011 Christmas wish is that Autism's vast majority, the 70-80% with autistic disorder and intellectual disabilities, will lose their status as autism's invisible autistics. It is a wish that will grow farther from fulfillment as the American Psychiatric Association stands poised to obliterate the original autistics and replace them in the DSM5 with its Aspergers Spectrum Disorder hidden under the label Autism Spectrum Disorder. It is a big wish and one whi...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - December 26, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Exceptionally Difficult Days for Ordinary Simple People
Our days in Baghdad are difficult. Here is a diary of me, with my neighbors and friends, in the last few days:21stDecember 2011, Wednesday night, BaghdadIjust reached home in the evening after three days at the working place. I gotno electricity. With the help of the hand light I saw that I got bread, and ahalf cabbage that had lost its water. I empathized with the cabbage. 22ndDecember 2011, Thursday, BaghdadI wanted the last day newspaper but the sellerdidn't have it. My neighbor heard me as he was standing near. He is a historyteacher and a friend of my father. He had that last day's issue deep in his b...
Source: psychiatry for all - December 25, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Walking in Baghdad Daily life in Baghdad Baghdad Explosions friends in Baghdad Source Type: blogs

Increase Sobriety and Reduce Costs
CONCLUSIONS: Promoting self-help group involvement appears to improve post-treatment outcomes while reducing the costs of continuing care. Even cost offsets that somewhat diminish over the long term can yield substantial savings. Actively promoting self-help group involvement may therefore be a useful clinical practice for helping addicted patients recover in a time of constrained fiscal resources. Humphreys K, Moos RH. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007 Jan;31(1):64-8. Encouraging posttreatment self-help group involvement to reduce demand for continuing care services: two-year clinical and utilization outcomes. See also; Brief-T...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - December 24, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12-Step Groups Alcohol Alcoholism Brief-TSF Source Type: blogs

Time for Cognitive Analytical Therapy?
Feeling low? Relationship difficulties? Confused about life?Don't let talking therapy be the preserve of the rich and famous. It can help you change no matter how big or small your problems are. Dr Tempest, a medical doctor, specialises in therapy for lawyers. Therapy usually lasts eight to sixteen sessions (50 minutes each). Dr Tempest is also happy to be instructed by solicitors for any medico legal case involving psychiatry or psychology. www.yourspacetotalk.com email: mail@yourspacetotalk.com tel: 07530 761373 Practice based in Harley Street and Fleet Street.
Source: The Psychiatrist Blog - December 23, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: private therapy CAT Source Type: blogs

Transparency & truth: Part 2: Psychiatric Times hosts a doctor's blog post regarding the DSM-5
Source: soulful sepulcher - December 23, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Dr. Peter Breggin: The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children
There were approximately 662,000 children in foster care in the United States in 2010. Now there is a Government Accounting Office (GAO) report confirming that foster children in five states -- Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Texas -- are receiving shocking amounts of psychiatric drugs. In the words of ABC News, they are "being prescribed psychiatric medications at doses higher than the maximum levels approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in these five states alone. And hundreds of foster children received five or more psychiatric drugs at the same time despite absolutely no evidence supporting t...
Source: PharmaGossip - December 23, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Your Must Know Guide To Assessing For ADHD
As ADHD is now considered a mental or psychiatric disorder, testing for ADHD uses the same methods which are used for all psychiatric illnesses and conditions. That means basically using the clinician’s judgement after he or she has surveyed various questionnaires and any other evidence. Because it is a question of judgement this leaves a margin of error and there has been great debate about how subjective assessing for ADHD can be. As yet there is no diagnostic tool which will give a black and white answer. It would be great if there were. First of all in assessing for ADHD the doctor or pediatrician should rule out...
Source: Life With ADHD - December 23, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: ADHD Dad Tags: ADHD Drugs Assessing Guide Know Must Your Source Type: blogs

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Was reading about books as gifts on Althouse and thinking about the sadness in my grandmother giving me the Reader's Digest for Christmas and reflecting that she was a contemporary of Scofield Thayer more or less and could have subscribed to The Dial, his avant-garde journal. Except for being moderne which seems now old fashioned I guess there is only the challenge that there were some beautiful, structurally challenging or penetrating things done. In Googling Thayer to find the article (again), I came upon the author of Sea Power, I would expect a relative. Thayer was apparently analyzed by Freud and became schizophrenic;...
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - December 22, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

'Telling it Like it is'
Source: The Psychiatrist Blog - December 22, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: credit Default Swaps Source Type: blogs

Psychiatrist appears to defend the DSM 5 in Psychiatric Times: Editor Ronald Pies thanks Steve Balt
Source: soulful sepulcher - December 22, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

The Gig is Up: The Sunshine Act Will Include CME Payments to Doctors
Source: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog - December 22, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Physician payments Physician Payments Sunshine Act Source Type: blogs

Poor Urban Depressed Patients Don’t Respond Well to Treatment
In a small clinical study published a few weeks ago, researchers didn’t find much difference between the three treatment groups of depressed subjects they studied — a group that received antidepressant medications, a group that received a specific type of not-commonly-practiced psychodynamic psychotherapy, and a group that received a sugar pill. But there were some serious issues with this study from the onset, issues that call into question not only the generalizability of the results, but also their validity. It’s a shame that Reuters, who picked up on the study just yesterday, glossed over the methodo...
Source: World of Psychology - December 22, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Antidepressant Depression Disorders General Medications Minding the Media Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Research Treatment Depressed Patients Depressed Subjects Dynamic Psychotherapy Effexor Expressive Therapy General Source Type: blogs

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When Gingrich stood up to oppose hysteria over Mexican participation in our country, he got credit for courage and then talking about allowing children or adolescents to work brought out a lot of applause from those who found work throwing papers as kids. Romney responded to the first action by slip streaming behind him as I understand it. Well, when Romney said he should return the $1.4 million he got from Fannie, Gingrich didn’t find this a useful criticism but made a grandiose justification for it. He’s not going anywhere IMHO. He’s a tribune without power who will not have power though, yes, some may enjoy his ta...
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - December 22, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Podcast 64: Brain Freeze
Happy Holidays, everyone. We taped this a few weeks ago, but Shrinky Podcasts always make for good holiday chatter. Today we talk about 1) Brain Freeze-- inspired by a Well article in the NYTimes for 11/10 on Rick Perry's Brain Freeze. You'll note that in this podcast, Dinah reads Roy's mind, and no has brain freeze from eating cold ice cream. We kind of ramble, and so what else is new? We talk about memory and attention and learning and Dinah explains why men don't take out the garbage during football games. Clink talks about the scientific phenomena of "brain overload." 2) Si...
Source: Shrink Rap - December 22, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

How Art Helps in Recovery
click image to view video The Brush, the Pen, and Recovery A documentary about a group of artists who have schizophrenia working out of Cottage Studio, an art studio program for mental health consumers in Hamilton, ON. People discuss their past and present experiences with schizophrenia, and how creating art improves their lives. Art professionals from a nearby commercial gallery join the studio to mount an exhibit. Finally, the artists reflect on what recovery, and art, means to them. “Painting makes me feel like I don’t have to hide,” says one. Click here or on the image above to view the video.
Source: Channel N - December 21, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: All Art Documentary art therapy brain CanCon psychiatry recovery schizophrenia video Source Type: blogs

Theresa Riggi moved from Cornton Vale following string of attacks. #mhuk #prison
http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2011/12/20/riggi-moved-from-prison-to-psychiatric-hospital/ Filed under: Mental Health News, Interesting Stuff...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - December 21, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health News, Interesting Stuff... Source Type: blogs

Cultivating an Organized Mind in a Sea of Distractions
One of the most interesting things I learned in co-authoring the Harvard Health book Organize Your Mind, Organize your Life with Harvard psychiatrist Paul Hammerness is that the brain is designed to beautifully handle one focus, one task at a time. It is not designed for multiple, parallel tasks. When you shine your full attention on a conversation, a meeting, a project, or on driving your car, you access the full spectrum of your brain’s resources. Top, down, right, left, back, front, all together the brain has an immense capacity to be creative, productive, and organized, avoid errors, and connect deeply with others w...
Source: World of Psychology - December 21, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margaret Moore, MBA Tags: Brain and Behavior Creativity General Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Self-Help Big Picture Brain Organization Disorganization Distractions Full Attention Full Spectrum Harvard Health Harvard Psychia Source Type: blogs

False Claims, Off-Label Prescribing & Doctors
Over the past fiscal year, the US Justice Department recovered nearly $2.2 billion under the False Claims Act against the pharmaceutical industry for fraud against federal healthcare programs, notably Medicaid and Medicare. In doing so, the feds say drugmakers relied on various forms of illegal promotion or pricing to bolster prescriptions and profits (back story). To establish marketing fraud, the feds typically examine a sequence of events that involves a drugmaker inducing a doctor to prescribe a drug on an off-label basis. Doctors are free to do so, of course, but drugmakers are not supposed to promote their meds for u...
Source: Pharmalot - December 21, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Centers for Medciare & Medicaid Services CMS False Claims Act Fraud Jim Gottstein Medicare Off-Label Prescribing Zyprexa Source Type: blogs

Questions about Alzheimer's
A college student from Goddard College researching her Senior thesis asked Carole Larkin the following questions. After each question Carole's answers. These are routine questions asked by person's new to dealing with Alzheimer's and related dementias. By Carole Larkin Alzheimer's Reading Room Carole Larkin Q. If Alzheimer’s cannot actually be determined until viewing the brain after death, does that mean all current Alzheimer’s cases are actually only presumed? If so, is there a proper medical term for this? A. In my opinion, it’s kind of a cop out to say that Alzheimer’s can’t be determined unti...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 21, 2011 Category: Dementia Authors: Carole Larkin MAG, CMC, CAEd, QDCS, EICS Source Type: blogs

2011 Autism Research Game Changer: California Autism Twins Study (CATS) And Gene Environment Interaction
This study has further hastened the demise of the "it's gotta be genetic" mindset, the belief that autism is an entirely genetic disorder, that has dominated public understanding of autism causes, dominated autism research funding and hindered discovery of environmental, particularly prenatal environmental triggers of autism disorders. The "it's gotta be genetic" mindset will still live on in the largely autism ignorant, advertising revenue dependent, major mainstream media institutions in LA, New York and Toronto but in the informed autism world it is being replaced by the gene environment autism resea...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - December 21, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

The fifties woman has many reasons to get better
“51-year old female presents today with …”Funny, the vast majority of my clinical notes last week began with that phrase, give or take a year or two. Women in their fifties who saw me in the clinic, who I spoke to via television in my telepsychiatry practice, or who I interacted with in some other way. It struck me as odd that so many women of similar age came to psychiatric consultation. Mental health practice is funny that way. Groups of people, age clusters, diagnostic groups-they all tend to show up in bunches and herds and gaggles. Could be the full moon. Could be environmental toxins. Could be nothi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 20, 2011 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Physician Patients Primary care Psychiatry newtag Source Type: blogs

How to find support for postpartum depression?
It becomes very difficult to explain to people that you are depressed right after having a baby. People would be shocked and might even wonder what is wrong with you. You, yourself, might wonder what is happening. But every fourth new mother has reported suffering from 'baby blues' or postpartum depression. Finding support in such a situation could be difficult. But it is not that only women suffer postpartum depression. Few men too have reported to have got the 'baby blues'. Postpartum depression strikes usually when least expected – just a few days after having the baby. On the one side parents are just so thrilled to ...
Source: My Page - December 20, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

Postpartum Depression: Try medicinal cures only as a last resort
It is normal for new mothers to feel overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to get done in a day. Looking after the baby is a full-time job. Add to that household duties, commitment to relationships, looking after the self, managing your aspirations, etc. and anyone could get frustrated. However, postpartum depression is a medical condition brought on by the hormonal changes that accompany childbirth. Postpartum depression is also referred to as 'baby blues'. It includes feelings of acute depression, irritation, dullness, anger and even thoughts about suicide. New mothers suffering from postpartum depression might als...
Source: My Page - December 20, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

Postpartum Depression – A Review
Statistics show that postpartum depression affects one in every four new mothers. It occurs usually within a day or a week of giving birth. Postpartum depression is also called 'baby blues' and usually lasts for a few days after childbirth. However, in some cases it might last for several weeks. That's when it is a worrisome issue. Postpartum depression could last for several months and years if untreated. It could also turn into a medical emergency situation when it becomes depression psychosis. What are the Symptoms of Postpartum Depression? Mild symptoms include laziness, dullness, changes in diet and sleeping patterns...
Source: My Page - December 20, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

Postpartum depression – holistic cures are the best remedy
Holistic cures work best for postpartum depression. Hormonal changes associated with motherhood are the triggers of postpartum depression that could ruin the joy of having a baby. Postpartum depression usually affects one in every four new mothers. The first symptoms of depression start within a week of childbirth. However, most women witness these 'baby blues' fade away within a few days or a week or so. But when the symptoms of depression last for several weeks or months then some treatment is required. The problem is that regular medicinal cures could do you more harm than good. Your doctor would be able to prescribe y...
Source: My Page - December 20, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

Postpartum depression – What your doctor might not have told you!
As a new mother your life changes like nothing you could have imagined. All the joy of having a new member in the family is accompanied by lots of work, endless list of thing-to-do and tackle. The last thing you want amidst all that is postpartum depression. However, according to most doctors, postpartum depression affects at least one in four new mothers. The onset of postpartum depression takes places in the first few days after childbirth. Sometimes it just goes away in a few days but it could also last for several weeks or months. 'Baby blues' that last more than a week or so requires medical help. Unfortunately, what ...
Source: My Page - December 20, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

Does Mental Illness Make People Better Leaders?
We've talked before about whether people with mental illnesses can be politicians (or pilots, or doctors). Today, on Midday with Dan Rodricks on WYPR, psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi, author of A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness makes the case that in good times, we need sane and stable leaders, but that in difficult times, "insanity produces good results" and that in hard times those with mental illness are better leaders. He talks about how mood disorders lead people to be more realistic, empathetic, resilient, and creative. Want to hear more? Click HERE to...
Source: Shrink Rap - December 20, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Short Film: Bad At Math
I wrote a short story called Bad At Math, about me vs. gun vs. Xanax, and Henrique Cartaxo asked if he could use the idea for a short film. Some differences: my bad guy was taller, the room was smaller, and my drink was WAY bigger. Also, a follow up.
Source: The Last Psychiatrist - December 19, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Movies, TV, and Books Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Update — 12-19-2011
VA hospital settles claim for $275,000 after leaving two “SmamWow” 14×11 sized towels in patient’s abdomen after surgery. Isn’t that some kind of “never event” according to … the agency that runs the VA hospitals? In 2010, dental problems caused 115,000 emergency department visits in Florida alone. That’s about 0.1% of all the emergency department visits in the whole country. Illinois psychiatric patient waiting in emergency department for 6 hours becomes agitated and combative prior to being transported to room. When restrained, becomes unresponsive and dies. Preliminary cause of death is “excited d...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - December 19, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs

Looking forward to Christmas?
In the West, it’s relatively easy to get caught up in the euphoria of Christmas, isn’t it? Regardless of one’s beliefs in the origins of the Universe and humanity’s place in it, countless millions of us succumb to the fake snow, the tinsel and the artificial sentimentality. My latest Pivot Points column Looking forward to Christmas in The Euroscientist. Bertrand Russell did not worship a teapot on the far side of the Sun Russell: “Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were t...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - December 19, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science atheists christmas happy Source Type: blogs

Relapse in an Era of Buprenorphine
A recent experience with a patient helped me realize some of the dramatic differences in the treatment of opioid dependence, in an era of buprenorphine. I drug-test patients who are treated with buprenorphine or Suboxone. The point of testing is not to catch someone messing up, but rather to determine when a person is in trouble. It would be great if we could simply rely on the word of our patients, but once a person is using opioids, his/her own ability to know what is true falls apart. All of us who treat addiction have heard patients rationalize relapse as something they ‘had to do’ for one reason or another, fo...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - December 18, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: SuboxDoc Tags: 12 steps addiction buprenorphine drug testing pharmacology psychodynamics recovery relapse Suboxone Subutex insight opioid dependence Source Type: blogs

National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals (UK)
Alzheimer's Reading Room Governance The theme of governance relates to the set up and running of hospitals and whether the systems and resources an organisation has in place can take into account and meet the needs of people with dementia. This chapter presents findings from the organisational checklist on key policies, guidelines and resources in the hospital, and from the ward organisational checklist on availability of services at ward level. Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading Room Email: 6% of hospitals had a care pathway in place for people with dementia at the time of audit and 44% of hospitals h...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 18, 2011 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

The Disconnection of Psychopaths
Functional connectivity between the right amygdala and anterior vmPFC is reduced in psychopaths. From Fig. 2 of Motzkin et al., (2011).The last post discussed the case of a 14 yr old boy with congenital brain abnormalities and severe antisocial behavior said to be "consistent with" psychopathy. This label is quite stigmatizing and the diagnosis is a controversial one (Skeem et al., 2011),1 particularly in children. What is psychopathy, exactly? According to Ermer and colleagues (2011),Psychopathy is a serious personality disorder marked by affective and interpersonal deficiencies, as well as behavioral problems and antisoc...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 18, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

Missed Opportunities?
Before I begin, I wanted to let you know that ClinkShrink wrote a post called Can You Tame Wild Women? over on our Shrink Rap News blog this week. ____________________________ When we talk about psychotherapy, one aspect of what we look at is the process of what occurs in the therapeutic relationship. This is an important part of psychodynamic-based psychotherapy, meaning psychotherapy that is derived from the theories put forth by Freud. Psychoanalysis (the purest form of psychodynamic psychotherapy) includes an emphasis on events that occurred during childhood, and a focus on understanding what g...
Source: Shrink Rap - December 18, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 19th 2011
This study was untaken to investigate the association of micro brain infarcts (MBIs) with antemortem global cognitive function (CF). ... Subjects were 436 well-characterized male decedents from the Honolulu Asia Aging Autopsy Study. Brain pathology was ascertained with standardized methods, CF was measured by the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument, and data were analyzed using formal mediation analyses, adjusted for age at death, time between last CF measure and death, education, and head size. Based on antemortem diagnoses, demented and nondemented subjects were examined together and separately. ... In those with no...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 18, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

7 Ways to Let Go
Buddhism asserts that attachment is the primary source of suffering. So then detachment or “non-attachment” would be our ticket out of that pain. Except that it’s not so easy … letting go of a person, place, or thing that has our heart temporarily held hostage. You may be grieving the death of a loved one, or the end of a friendship you had hoped would be more, or merely the realization that your father will never be able to give you what you need from that relationship. It seems as though every moment of this life is about letting go, of something or someone that is renting far too much space in our heads. And whi...
Source: World of Psychology - December 17, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: General Grief and Loss Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Self-Help Beautiful Gallery Beauty Of Life Beliefnet Buddhism Crucifix Death Of A Loved One Detachment Hostage Lezlie Love Story Marcel Proust Memoir Outpour Source Type: blogs

If You Liked The Descendants, You Are A Terrible Person
i've seen this movie before
Source: The Last Psychiatrist - December 17, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Narcissism Source Type: blogs

Hospital Payment Methodology Radically Changed Overnight: Hospitalists WIN!
(HNN) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday, December 17, 2011 they are making radical changes to hospital payment methodology. For several years, CMS has warned hospitals to improve their inpatient hospital satisfaction scores, as defined through the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, or risk losing millions of dollars in federal funding. As part of their compliance efforts, through the AIDET process, hospitals have been paying consulting organizations millions of dollars to teach their doctors and nurses how to be nice. ...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - December 17, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: The Happy Hospitalist Source Type: blogs

Found Family Members!
The coolest thing happened to me! I haven't talked to anyone on my mom's side of the family since I was about 16 or so, when I moved out, so maybe 25 years. One of my cousins has been looking for me for several years, and when my Dad died, she found his online obituary matching his last name (my maiden name) with my new married name, she found me on Facebook and voila, I'm now connected to a part of my family that I've missed out on for decades! I have all of these childhood memories of these people, and great to see that they have such good hearts. The strange thing is - not one of them has mention...
Source: bipolar.and.me - December 16, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Report of the national audit of dementia care in general hospitals 2011
This audit has identified a need for significant improvements in hospital ward environments, staff training and the overall approach to care delivery for patients with dementia. Although the majority of wards meet basic safety requirements, it shows that many had not addressed simple measures that could lessen the distress caused to dementia patients by an unfamiliar and confusing hospital environment. It also reveals deficiencies in staff training. Report Royal College of Psychiatrists - press release
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 16, 2011 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Source Type: blogs

Electives
When I go back to med school in 15 months(!) or so from now, I'm going to have a limited amount of time to a) remember how not to kill people, and b) decide what field I want to do. Since currently I do critical care outcomes research, and since I loved my medicine sub-i, obviously Internal Medicine is at the top of the list. However I also really enjoy procedures and being in the OR. I especially liked rounding on the post-op trauma patients when I did that rotation (I know this is not normal), so therefore Anesthesia is on my radar as well. (Not sure why I never considered Peds, even though I really liked that rotation.....
Source: The long road to medical school - December 15, 2011 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs