Column: Dr Dickon Bevington discusses supporting your youngster who gets on the drugs scene

Dr Dickon Bevington, a consultant in kid and teen psychiatry working at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, talks about supporting your child who gets on the drugs scene. There are many signs of substance abuse in young people …See all stories on this topic

Outrageous theoretical artist now cuts off earlobe

Pavlensky sliced off part of his ear with a huge knife while sitting naked on the roof of the Serbsky Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry in Moscow. “The knife separates the earlobe from the body. The concrete wall of psychiatry separates …See all stories on this subject

Deep Sequencing Could Yield Hidden Mutations in Psychiatric Disorders

A brand-new sequencing technique determines non-inherited mutations present in only a fraction of cells; such mutations might be crucial players in autism, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric conditions. The presence of sporadic, noninherited mutations in the brain …See all stories on this subject

Rogers’ Child & & Teenager Specialists to Participate in AACAP Meeting

OCONOMOWOC, Wis., Oct. 16, 2014/ Real Blue Tribune/– Key members of the psychiatric team at Rogers Memorial Hospital will attend the 61st Annual Fulfilling of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), to be held October 20-25 in San …See all stories on this subject

Behm is project chair for Legal Aid Society

Stephan Heckers, M.D., M.Sc., William P. and Henry B. Test Teacher of Schizophrenia Study and chair of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry, has been called the next editor-in-chief of JAMA Psychiatry, among 9 specialty …See all stories on this subject