The neighborhood and Mayo coming together to discuss mental illness

That’s precisely what happened Monday night in Rochester. Mayo Clinic’s Psychology and Psychiatry Department hosted the Sixth annual “Evening to Mental Health Reflection.” It’s a chance for Mayo Center and the community to link. The …See all stories on this subject

Lessons on preventing mass shootings elusive in Aurora theater trial

The difficulty, said Jonathan Metzl, a professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, is that even such a lengthy mix of factors does not precisely anticipate whether someone will dedicate a mass shooting. People with severe mental …See all stories on this topic

Oils exhibit at Wellesley library: the painter/doctor is in

After exercising psychiatry for 27 years, Sheinis decided to let his medical degree take a back seat and made art his full-time top priority (he studied at Cooper Union Art Institute, The Art Student’s League, Museum of Art in Boston, and the Danforth …See all stories on this subject

California consents to spend for sex-reassignment surgery for transgender inmate

Carroll, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. Under the agreement the state will certainly work out the contract with the firm that performs the surgical treatment. Quine was convicted of the February 1980 …See all stories on this subject

Typical drugs may interfere with spinal or brain injury recuperation

lead author on the paper and teacher of Medical Psychiatry at the Norwich Medical School at UEA. “While medications with ACB are commonly needed to treat typical problems of brain or spine injuries, cognitive impairment due to the medication …See all stories on this topic