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Finding a Middle Ground Between Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

Discovering a Happy medium In between Psychiatry and Anti-PsychiatryThere will certainly never be any compromise acceptable to the die-hard defenders of psychiatry or to its most fanatic critics. Some inflexible psychiatrists are blind biological reductionists who assume that genes are fate which there is a capsule for each problem.See all stories on this topic Naked [...]

By | October 21st, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

Studies question link between head circumference, autism

Research studies question link between head circumference, autismHaving an enlarged head in early youth is not a trusted marker of autism, according to 2 new researches published in August in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. "There's not simply one predominant pattern that is ...See all stories on this subject [...]

By | October 21st, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

Verbal abuse worsens bipolar disease outcome

Verbal abuse gets worse bipolar disease outcomemedwireNews: Experiencing verbal abuse in youth has an enduring unfavorable effect on the course of bipolar disorder, analysts have discovered. Just like a history of sexual and physical abuse, verbal abuse in isolation was associated with an earlier start ...See all stories on this topic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvuYTH5nU0 Across the [...]

By | October 20th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics Compared in Federal Agency Monograph

First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics Compared in Federal Agency Essay"This monograph presents a succinct summary of the benefits and threats of the use of both very first- and second-generation representatives in an objective fashion," Mark Rapaport, M.D., chief of psychiatric services at Emory University School of Medicine and a member ...See all stories on this topic [...]

By | October 19th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

Former pharmaceutical employee charged with insider trading

Former pharmaceutical staff member charged with insider tradingA previous senior monetary expert for a major pharmaceutical company has been apprehended on charges of insider trading of pharmaceutical stocks, according to a news release provided by the United States Attorney's Workplace, Southern District of New york city. Zachary Zwerko ...See all stories on this subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvuYTH5nU0 [...]

By | October 18th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

The lady vanishes: Dr Ada English, patriot and psychiatrist

The girl vanishes: Dr Ada English, patriot and psychiatristBut what about psychiatry? The asylums cast an uniquely long shadow over 20th-century Ireland and, as a practising psychiatrist and chronicler, I've constantly questioned: where were the medical reformers seeking to revolutionise Irish mental health care?See all stories on this topic SPECT Imaging poised to change the [...]

By | October 17th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

Health minister to inaugurate day care centre at KSHEMA on Oct 18

Health minister to inaugurate day care centre at KSHEMA on Oct 18MANGALORE: Minister for wellness and family well-being U T Khader will certainly usher in a daycare centre revealed by the state government in the 2013-14 at the psychiatry department of K S Hegde Medical Academy under Nitte University right here on October 18.See all [...]

By | October 17th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

Front Lines – The Politics Of Mental Illness

Cutting edge - The Politics Of Mental AilmentPsychiatry has constantly had a taste for pathologising completely regular behaviour. After all, being gay was once listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Handbook of Mental illness. Forty years back, David Rosenhan, a professor at Stanford University ...See all stories on this subject powered bypowered by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvuYTH5nU0 [...]

By | October 16th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

A Psychiatric Career Begins—After 50

A Psychiatric Profession Begins-- After 50Occasionally, retirement supplies a chance to take an earlier path not chosen. For Allen Schaffer, that course is psychiatry. Dr. Schaffer was certified in internal medicine in 1978. He went on to open 8 primary-care clinics, which he later offered ...See all stories on this subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvuYTH5nU0 powered bypowered [...]

By | October 15th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments

Pediatric Specialist/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Pediatric Specialist/Child and Teen PsychiatryThese lists are excerpted from The Best Doctors in America ® 2011-2012 database, that includes over 45,000 doctors in more than 40 clinical specialties. Biennial research is presently in progress to identify options for the 2013-2014 Best Physicians list.See all stories on this subject 5 Damaging Myths About Postpartum Depression Postpartum [...]

By | October 14th, 2014|Medical|0 Comments