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One-third of Adults Have Had Some Form of Alcohol Use Disorder During Their Lifetimes

...ety disorders, substance abuse disorder, and other psychiatric conditions. The researchers say that during the 12 months prior to the survey, 8.5 per cent of adults had an alcohol use disorder, including 4.7 per cent with alcohol abuse and 3.8 per cent who were alcohol-dependent. "Alcohol dependence was sign...

Medicaid Data Analysis

...ata released today from five states indicates that psychiatric and substance abuse services may be missing their...nt and emergency department use and hospital-based psychiatric treatment go up and use of community services goes down, as compared to beneficiaries with just one ...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...results showed that in a patient with a history of psychiatric disease there was a 29-fold increase in risk of su...have a higher risk of suicide, even if co-existing psychiatric disease, demographic differences and socio-economic factors are taken into account," "Our study ide...

A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life

...tim. The "social misfit" with a long history of psychiatric and emotional problems hit Ross in the face, forced her to the ground, kneed her in the chest, then slammed her head into the pavement two or three times. There were more than 30 fractures to her body, including shattered ribs and other injuries to h...

Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed

...elated behavior," said Airan. "We usually think of psychiatric disorders as fuzzy and intractable, and this study showed me that, with the right tools, we could really put psychiatry on a quantitative framework." Leslie Meltzer, neurosciences graduate student and co-first author, searched for the cellular basi...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...ly Americans feel comfortable asking for help with psychiatric problems. "Depression is a major public health issue," says Dr. Kelly Posner, an assistant professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. "The fact that people are getting the treatments they need is encouraging...

Lancets Report Condemns UKs Mental Health Bill

...es of murders by mentally ill people. People with psychiatric problems commit around 60 murders per year. Yet according to the Lancet's report, , patients in mental health wards may be in bigger danger than the public....

Psychiatric Patients Ill-treated in Emergency Rooms, US Officials Say

...sachusetts state authorities in US have found that psychiatric patients receive a raw deal in emergency rooms (ER... battlegrounds. They often are the last resort for psychiatric patients in crisis -- some patients are so out of control and aggressive that mental health faciliti...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

...e with the problem. Records of the valley's only psychiatric ailments hospital in Srinagar show that over 60,000 patients with psychiatric complaints visited the out patients' department in just 2006. "It is a colossal problem. Patients ...

Men Could Overcome Erectile Dysfunction Through Group Psychotherapy

... if effectiveness depend upon personality factors, psychiatric co-morbid diagnosis, length of therapy time, says Melnik....

Genetic Variation may Increase Premenstrual Depression Risk

... as premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, this psychiatric condition affects approximately 8 percent of women...hey found that these women, who have no history of psychiatric problems or menstrual cycle-related symptoms, may have gene variants that protect against PMDD. Acco...

Manic Depression Linked With Shrinking Brain

...d shrinking of the brain. Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition defined as recurrent episodes of significant disturbance in moods. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr. Andrew McIntosh at the University of Edinburgh. As part of the study, researchers examined the grey matter in...

EU Drug Regulator Highlights Depression Danger of Weight-loss Pill

...ose taking anti-depressants because of the risk of psychiatric side-effects. The agency said that depression was known as the main side-effect of the drug and this had been signalled at the time of its approval in June 2006. However, the Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) had reco...

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

...ency (MHRA) in UK said it had received reports of psychiatric reactions to drug, marketed as Acomplia. "Three hundred and sixty-four (364) psychiatric reactions have been reported," it said. "Amongst these, there have been 48 reports of depression, 16...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...s commonly encountered in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and other institutionalized settings, little resea...ly than minor self-injurers to report a history of psychiatric treatment and hospitalizations, suicide attempt, and current suicide ideation. Results from the st...

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

.... Aside from the potential to transform clinical psychiatric practice, these new developments will surely change the relationship between doctors and the drug industry and between the industry and the public. Direct-to-consumer advertising will become nearly irrelevant because the drugs will no longer be inter...

Food Supplement to Combat Alzheimers Disease

...that omega-3 can have a therapeutic effect on some psychiatric conditions. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet...ther omega-3 supplementation has any effect on the psychiatric symptoms associated with Alzheimers disease. Just under 200 patients with mild Alzheimers were divid...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...coff at the notion that their products can cause a psychiatric disorder. Even some mental health experts say labeling the habit a formal addiction is going too far.Michael Gallagher, president of the Entertainment Software Association, said the trade group sides with psychiatrists who agree that this so-called v...

Slovenia Cracks Down on Smoking

...ooms that can be installed in hotels, restaurants, psychiatric hospitals or prisons, the new legislation declares. Ventilated cabins can also be installed in workplaces and some public institutions, exclusively for smokers, with eating and drinking forbidden inside them. Currently, smoking in Slovenia is allow...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...er, which Davidson describes as the most prevalent psychiatric diagnosis among children in our country. "Our findings suggest that it may-I stress may-be possible to train attention in children with methods derived from these practices," he says. Davidson says scientific studies of meditation are proving tr...

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