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Study: Hint of Benefit for Alzheimer's Drug
(MedPage Today) -- The novel amyloid plaque-targeted biologic drug solanezumab failed to demonstrate benefit for treating Alzheimer's disease, but a slight signal of efficacy in a subset of patients may breathe new life into the drug.
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

High personality disorder comorbidity rates identified in anxiety
A meta-analysis covering 30 years of research has identified high rates of comorbid personality disorders across a number of anxiety disorder subtypes.
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

PUFA levels reduced in schizophrenia patients
Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis show that erythrocyte membrane concentrations of certain polyunsaturated fatty acids are reduced in the brains of people with schizophrenia.
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Marijuana Pill Relieves MS Symptoms (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Marijuana extract pills may ease painful muscle stiffness for some patients with multiple sclerosis, a randomized trial affirmed.
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Mind: Recalibrating Therapy for a Wired World - The Digital Doctor
These days, as never before, therapists are struggling with concerns about the accessibility made possible by technology.
Source: NYT Health - October 8, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. Tags: Google Inc GOOG NASDAQ Psychiatry and Psychiatrists Facebook Inc FB NASDAQ Social Networking (Internet) Mobile Applications Text Messaging Therapy and Rehabilitation Computers and the Internet Source Type: news

Genetic mutation linked to psychiatric disease and obesity
Researchers have identified a small region in the genome that conclusively plays a role in the development of psychiatric disease and obesity. The key lies in the genomic deletion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, a nervous system growth factor that plays a critical role in brain development.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 8, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

How To Achieve Bipolar IN Order
This video is from a public television program. It explains what bipolar is and the difference between disorder and IN Order by detailing the six stages that one goes through as understanding and functionality improves. It outlines more complete assessments geared toward success, advanced tools that supplement existing tools, and stage specific plans.read more
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tom Wootton Tags: Depression Evolutionary Psychology Neuroscience Psychiatry advanced tools bipolar Bipolar in order manic depression public television program Tom Wootton Source Type: news

Mid-Level Defense Fails to Keep Physicians Out of PrisonMid-Level Defense Fails to Keep Physicians Out of Prison
Federal prosecutors said 2 Florida physicians convicted in a massive case of Medicare fraud could not 'hide behind their medical extenders' for what they did. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Business of Medicine Headlines - October 8, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

To Label or Not To Label
To Label or Not to Label, that is the question: Whether it’s nobler in the mind to suffer the taunts and stigma of same-age bullies, or by defying the label given by the insensitive society, and not taking a pill, end it!read more
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sandeep Gautam Tags: Child Development Parenting Philosophy Psychiatry adjustment options biological explanation bullies classic case comments section disease model environment and society evolutionary terms home environment intelligence and creativi Source Type: news

Irreversible Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors Revisited
Given the likelihood that insufficient numbers of patients will be available for a randomized controlled trial of MAOIs in refractory depression or atypical depression, we must still rely on consensus guidelines and expert opinion.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Mental Health Needs of Children With Learning DisabilitiesMental Health Needs of Children With Learning Disabilities
Studies have shown that children with learning disabilities have higher rates of psychiatric problems than their non-disabled peers. Are their mental health needs being adequately recognized? Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 8, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry Journal Article Source Type: news

Intimate Portrait: Martin S. Bergmann, PhD
Being a Therapist features intimate portraits of psychotherapists in their own work spaces. An excerpt of his interview with Dr Martin S.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Are Psychiatric Disorders Inflammatory-Based Conditions?
A plethora of studies support the hypothesis that inflammation plays a role in the pathophysiology of major psychiatric disorders.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority: The Austen Riggs Reader
Contemporary psychoanalysts know that behavior is a form of communication. This book describes the work being done at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychodynamic institution in Stockbridge, Mass.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Social Media: A Key Component to the Psychiatrist's Practice
Having even a basic idea of the potential—as well as of the perils—of social media is therefore not only important to good practice, but it may be essential to good practice.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Risk gene for Alzheimer's associated with lower brain amyloid
A variation in the complement receptor-1 (CR1) gene, a newly identified gene associated with risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease is associated with lower levels of beta amyloid—a brain protein involved in Alzheimer's—in cognitively healthy older people, according to a study published online Sept. 27 in Biological Psychiatry . The findings suggest that a mechanism other than one related to beta amyloid accumulation may influence disease risk associated with the gene.
Source: Health Imaging News - October 8, 2012 Category: Radiology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

Mental Illness Affects Job Prospects More Than Physical Disability
The stigma of mental illness often has a greater impact on people's employment prospects than physical disability or illness, Australian researchers reported today. The study, commissioned by WISE Employment, a not-for-profit organization aimed at empowering job seekers to find meaningful work, revealed that mental illness, even in today's supposed period of apparent enlightenment, continues to be a serious obstacle to employment. The study was commissioned as part of Mental Health Week, which started on Sunday, October 7th, 2012...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 8, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Is Sting bipolar? Or is that just a rumor?
From a statement he made in a 1996 interview, the actor/musician Sting, who was born Gordon Sumner, has been put on list after list of famous people with bipolar disorder. ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Bipolar Disorder - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

$20 million gift establishes Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research
(Washington University in St. Louis) Andrew and Barbara Taylor and the Crawford Taylor Foundation, the charity of the Jack C. Taylor family, have committed $20 million to the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to advance the science underlying the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illnesses.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - October 8, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

McGill researchers link genetic mutation to psychiatric disease and obesity
(McGill University) McGill researchers have identified a small region in the genome that conclusively plays a role in the development of psychiatric disease and obesity. The key lies in the genomic deletion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, a nervous system growth factor that plays a critical role in brain development.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 8, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Behavioral Therapy Erases Bad Memories
It took 50 years, but now we are there.read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 7, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: William R. Klemm, D.V.M, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Memory Psychiatry amygdala animal studies bad memories bad memory brain scans cement conditioned reflex conditioned reflexes cues Extinction investigators joseph ledoux memory research new thought Pavlov post tr Source Type: news

Why Hypnosis Doesn't Work For All
Not everyone is able to be hypnotized, and new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine shows how the brains of such people differ from those who can easily be. The study, published in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, uses data from functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging to identify how the areas of the brain associated with executive control and attention tend to have less activity in people who cannot be put into a hypnotic trance...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 7, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Behavioral Intervention May Enhance A Key Aspect Of Empathy
A compassion-based meditation program can significantly improve a person's ability to read the facial expressions of others, finds a study published by Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. This boost in empathic accuracy was detected through both behavioral testing of the study participants and through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of their brain activity. "It's an intriguing result, suggesting that a behavioral intervention could enhance a key aspect of empathy," says lead author Jennifer Mascaro, a post-doctoral fellow in anthropology at Emory University...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 7, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Maternal Mental Health, Parenting Affected By Economic Abuse
Mothers who experience economic and psychological abuse during the first year of a relationship with their child's father are more likely to become depressed and spank the child in year five, researchers from the Rutgers School of Social Work have found. The Rutgers team, which studied the impact of intimate partner violence - known as IPV - and the effects of such violence over time on women, also determined psychological abuse experiences during the first year of the relationship had a significant effect on the level of mothers' engagement with their children in the fifth year...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 7, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Taking Lamictal or Lamotrigine? Check the Side Effects
My psychiatrist recently changed my dosage of lamotrigine, and almost immediately I started to have trouble staying asleep through the night. We also dropped another drug I'd been taking, but that one, if anything, was less sedating anyway. So today I thought I'd better double-check the side effects of lamotrigine. Lamictal / Lamotrigine Side Effects I found out some interesting things. Insomnia is listed as a common side effect, but what I've been experiencing is interrupted sleep and waking too early, so perhaps there's another cause for that. On the other hand, abnormal dreams turns up - and I have been having nightma...
Source: About.com Bipolar Disorder - October 7, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Lab Notes: Why Does That Make You Nauseated?
(MedPage Today) -- Mechanisms underlying vomiting are well recognized, but not so for its handmaiden, nausea. A new study in rats sheds light on the nausea process. Also this week: how to cripple a superbug.
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - October 6, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Genetic variation in DNMT3B and increased global DNA methylation is associated with suicide attempts in psychiatric patients - Murphy TM, Mullins N, Ryan M, Foster T, Kelly C, McClelland R, O'Grady J, Corcoran E, Brady J, Reilly M, Jeffers A, Brown K, Maher A, Bannan N, Casement A, Lynch D, Bolger S, Buckley A, Quinlivan L, Daly L, Kelleher C, Malone KM.
Recently, a significant epigenetic component in the pathology of suicide has been realized. Here we investigate candidate functional SNPs in epigenetic-regulatory genes, DNMT1 and DNMT3B, for association with Suicide Attempt (SA) among patients with co-exi...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news

An empirically derived approach to the classification and diagnosis of mood disorders - Westen D, Malone JC, Defire JA.
This article describes a system for diagnosing mood disorders that is empirically derived and designed for its clinical utility in everyday practice. A ran-dom national sample of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists described a randomly selected curren...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news

The impact of probable anxiety and mood disorder on self-reported collisions: A population study - Wickens CM, Mann RE, Stoduto G, Ialomiteanu A, Smart RG, Rehm J.
This study examined the association between probable anxiety or mo...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Accuracy of the Historical, Clinical and Risk Management Scales (HCR-20) in predicting violence and other offenses in forensic psychiatric patients in Brazil - Telles LE, Folino JO, Taborda JG.
BACKGROUND: Assessing the risk of violence is a complex task. In Latin America it is often based on clinical criteria that are not very objective or structured. HCR-20 has been used to increase the accuracy of this exam. AIMS: The aim of this study was to ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

The impact of the Great East Japan earthquake on mandatory psychiatric emergency hospitalizations in Tokyo: a retrospective observational study - Aoki A, Aoki Y, Harima H.
On 11 March 2011, the eastern part of Japan was struck by a magnitude 9.0 quake. About 20 000 people were killed or weremissing, and a nuclear crisis followed. In Tokyo, people were indirectly exposed to the earthquake and nuclear crisis by TV broadcast....
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Law & psychiatry: punishing juveniles who kill - Appelbaum PS.
Punishment of juvenile murderers forces policy makers to weigh the developmental immaturity of adolescents against the heinousness of their crimes. The U.S. Supreme Court has progressively limited the severity of punishments that can be imposed on juvenile...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Developmental trajectories of physical and indirect aggression from late childhood to adolescence: sex differences and outcomes in emerging adulthood - Cleverley K, Szatmari P, Vaillancourt T, Boyle M, Lipman E.
OBJECTIVE: Two common subtypes of aggression (physical and indirect) have been shown to develop concurrently throughout childhood and to uniquely predict maladjustment. However, nothing is known about psychiatric outcomes of joint trajectories of physical ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Nigeria: Representatives Seek Expansion of Kaduna Psychiatric Hospital
[Daily Trust]Kaduna -Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Health said yesterday in Kaduna that with the high population of psychiatric patients, the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Kaduna needs expansion.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Director’s Update » NIMH Director Tom Insel Participates in ScienceLive Chat
NIMH Director Tom Insel Participates in ScienceLive Chat
Source: National Institute of Mental Health - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Authors: National Institute of Mental Health Source Type: news

Lab Notes: Why Does That Make You Nauseous?
(MedPage Today) -- Mechanisms underlying vomiting are well recognized, but not so for its handmaiden, nausea. A new study in rats sheds light on the nausea process. Also this week: how to cripple a superbug.
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

POINT: The Case for Gun Control
Unfortunately, brilliant psychiatrists continue to put on display their ignorance of the Second Amendment and its history. The Second Amendment is not about hunting or even defending your home from armed intruders, although that is certainly a fringe benefit.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Hypnosis: Why quick decision-makers and people with a higher attention span do better
Research from Stanford University shows the answer may lie in your attention span and how quickly you make decisions. The research was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 5, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Botulinum Toxin and Depression
Is it possible that botulinum toxin injections into facial muscles may alleviate symptoms of depression? Recent research suggests that this might be so.read more
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eugene Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. Tags: Depression Neuroscience Psychiatry amygdala antidepressant effect bacterial toxin botulinum toxin botulism brain areas brain circuitry brain regions chemical signal earlier research facial expression facial expressions facial Source Type: news

California Outlaws 'Treatment' of Homosexuality in MinorsCalifornia Outlaws 'Treatment' of Homosexuality in Minors
It will soon be illegal for healthcare professionals in California to offer treatment to any minor with the aim of converting them from homosexuality or reducing homosexual desire. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 5, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Exercise Boosts Obese Teens' Mental HealthExercise Boosts Obese Teens' Mental Health
Moderate twice-weekly aerobic exercise helps overweight and obese adolescents feel better about themselves, even if they don't lose weight. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 5, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

MSF hands over last remaining project in Sri Lanka
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has handed over its last remaining activities in Mullaitivu district, Sri Lanka, having first worked in the country in 1986. The handover of the mental health programme in August 2012 to an established international NGO with a long-term operational plan for the north of the country follows a progressive transfer of medical activities to the Ministry of Health during the last 18 months. Photo: Eddy McCall, MSF | An MSF surgeon does the rounds of the women's ward in Mullaitivu Hospital. MSF began work in 2010 supporting the hospital's water and sanitation system, emergency unit, and gy...
Source: MSF News - October 5, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Sri Lanka Frontpage Press Release Source Type: news

New Autism Criteria Will Not Exclude Affected KidsNew Autism Criteria Will Not Exclude Affected Kids
New diagnostic criteria for autism will not exclude children with the disorder, rendering them ineligible for medical and support services. However, some autism groups still have concerns. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 5, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Maybe We Can: The Psychological Challenges of Our Current Election Cycle
Four years ago, the winning presidential slogan went: “Yes, we can. Yes, we can.” We haven’t heard that slogan this time around. Maybe we’ve come back down from this idealism to a more sobering reality.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Violence in the Media: What Effects on Behavior?
“You turn on the television, and violence is there. You go to a movie, and violence is there.”
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Two yellow feathers and a skull. . . drop from the sky and fall on the brown . . . scar of trail, a sharp-shinned hawk
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Inter-Rater Reliability in Psychiatric Diagnosis
DSM-5 presents psychiatry with a potential “reset button” for diagnostic reliability.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

COUNTERPOINT: Gun Control and the Second Amendment
We are told that we must allow the massacre of innocent Americans—including children—with easily obtained firearms because “it is the price we must pay for freedom.” All those who have sworn the Hippocratic Oath to protect their patients should stand resolute against this radical and morally bankrupt idea.
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Ghana: Misery of 'Prayer Camps' for Mentally Ill
[IRIN]Accra -Doris Appiah, 57, has bipolar disorder. In her early twenties, she was sent to an overcrowded psychiatric hospital followed by a "prayer camp" to be treated. She stayed there for five years, at times tied to a wall or forced to fast. Her story is mirrored by thousands of mentally ill people across Ghana, according to a 2 October Human Rights Watch (HRW) report entitled Like a Death Sentence.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 5, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news