Uncovering the Keys of the Adolescent Brain

For the Coordinating Center, Terry Jernigan, teacher of cognitive science, psychiatry and radiology and director of the Center for Human Advancement and Sandra Brown, vice chancellor for research and professor of psychology and psychiatry. For the Information …See all stories on this subject

Authorities Chief: Threats and Effects of Underage Drug Consumption

A post published in The American Journal of Psychiatry shows that adolescents might be more vulnerable to alcohol and drug addictions than adults. With a recent nationwide and regional rise in drug overdoses, some of which engaged youths that matured …See all stories on this subject

The 10 most outright U.S. abuses of psychology and psychiatry

Psychiatrists and psychologists have been utilized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to help with mind control and abuse in Task MKUltra and in the American Mental Association-bolstered CIA torture program. Psychiatric political abuses …See all stories on this topic

Treatment sessions assist distressed parents raise calm kids

One year after the research study began, 31 percent of kids in the comparison group had actually developed a stress and anxiety condition, compared with five percent in the treatment group, the researchers reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Lots of elements identify whether …See all stories on this subject

Determining youth as '' at danger ' for mental issues might be less a stigma than the symptoms

Findings are online in the journal Schizophrenia Research study. “The clinical high-risk state is an incredibly vital advance in psychiatry that allows recognition of at-risk youth prior to advancement of full psychosis,” said Lawrence H. Yang …See all stories on this subject