On the psychiatrist’s couch

Linda Gask, 59, is a professor of psychiatry at Manchester University and has been practicing for more than Three Decade. She just recently pertained to terms with her own major depression. This is her story. One Sunday evening, as I pondered the long …See all stories on this subject

“The outcomes we found from this study open the door for contemporary ‘precision medicine’ methods to psychiatry, and more specifically, the use of fMRI scans as important players in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.” Other researchers …See all stories on this topic

The lady, barely 100 pounds, is the sickest patient Dr. Leland Dennis has ever seen in more than 20 years practicing psychiatry. “Have you ever had treatment?” Dennis, the Oklahoma County jail psychiatrist, asked the female inmate. An inmate waits in …See all stories on this topic

In 1938, though, barely anybody had an idea. Leo Kanner, former head of child psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, published his paper on “Donald T” among others in 1943: autism, in Kanner’s view, was a form of childhood schizophrenia, caused, he believed …See all stories on this subject

According to a brand-new research published in The Lancet Psychiatry, a group of researchers discovered a link between Goths and their subculture and depression. Teens who consider themselves Goths are 3 times as most likely as non-Goths to end up being clinically depressed.See all storieson this subject