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Phone Calls Lend Vital Support to Moms of Mentally Ill Children

...ing researcher shows that regular phone calls from psychiatric nurses are a lifeline for mothers who often are is...cluding a web-based program in which mothers and a psychiatric nurse communicate by e-mail. Scharer examined data from 63 phone conversations of 16 of the 46 mot...

'Mentally-challenged' should have a choice

... Mental Health Review Board members, at Weskoppies psychiatric hospital, Pretoria, the minister said "We must work tirelessly to change the practice from the past that mental health care users could be locked in hospitals and unilateral decisions taken on their care, treatment and rehabilitation." She caution...

Many Suicidal Adults Aren't Getting Mental Health Treatment

...but of these, 74 percent had symptoms of a serious psychiatric disorder, most commonly depression. A little over half (56 percent) believed they needed care from a doctor or mental health professional. But the results also suggest that even suicidal adults who ask for help may not get it. Forty-four percent of...

Special Behavioral Therapies made Women more likely to Attempt Suicide

...om for suicidal behavior or to be hospitalized for psychiatric reasons, said Marsha Linehan, lead author of a new...ental health leaders, including heads of inpatient psychiatric units and clinical mental health agencies. These community therapists were selected on the basis of ...

Shire Developed DAYTRANA – The First Medication to Treat ADHD Symptom

....S. ADHD is considered the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents. ADHD is a neurological brain disorder that manifests as a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequent and severe than is typically observed in individuals at a compara...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

...c subspecialties including cardiology, transplant, psychiatric illnesses and genetic disorders, Children’s Center physicians, nurses and staff provide compassionate care to more than 90,000 children each year. For more information, please visit: http://www.hopkinschildrens.org Source: Newswise...

New Orleans in the grip of a Depression Epidemic

..., the deputy coroner in New Orleans who deals with psychiatric cases called attention to the annual rate of suicides of more than 26 per 100,000 in the months after Katrina. The city has so far reported 12 official suicides in the city but according to Rouse the real number was still higher, because many self-i...

Body Image Reflects Mood Disorder In Adolescents - Study Finds

...dy image than others - a study of adolescents in a psychiatric hospital reveals. Dr. Jennifer Dyl of Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island and colleagues reported people who are conscious with their body shape and weight are likely to be suffer from dissociation, post-traumatic stress disorder, sex...

Depression Could Quickly Grow Into UK’s Biggest Proble

...to 70% of men in prison have usually some forms of psychiatric disorder, as are the many who were homeless, which could only be due discrimination and neglect. The professor felt that there are encouraging signs of the political mood changing. But he did caution that this political science was still in its very ...

Child Abuse a Plausible Reason for Schizophrenia

... in schizophrenia. They had reviewed 40 studies of psychiatric patients and found that they were sexually or physically abused during their childhood. When reviewed 13 different studies of schizophrenics, they found that the abuse rates varied from 51 – 91%. They said that schizophrenic symptoms may actually be ...

Brain’s response distinct upon exposure to erotic image

...ith different emotional significance. Because many psychiatric disorders also are associated with poor processing of signals associated with reward and pleasure, as well as sexual disturbances, he believes the way the brain processes emotional pictures, including erotic materials, might help scientists better un...

Use of Anti-Depressant Does not Help Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

...us ill-health and sometimes death. It is a serious psychiatric illness with a lifetime death rate arguably as high as that associated with any psychiatric illness, according to background information in the article. A major contributor to the poor prognos...

Gauging efficacy of SSRI class of anti-depressants

... of individuals.” He further added,” Much of the psychiatric community fears that the absence of treatment may prove more harmful to depressed individuals than the effects of the drugs themselves. Most people who commit suicide suffer from untreated depression." ...

PTST Mostly Seen Among Disaster Victims

...men, as do persons with pre-existing or concurrent psychiatric disorders and those who have previously experienced traumatic events or substantial stress. Galea, an M.D. who is an associate professor at the U-M School of Public Health and a research affiliate at the U-M Institute for Social Research, is involved...

TV Viewing Might Increase The Risk Of Sleeping Difficulties In Children’

...oncerned about TV viewing, sleep disturbances, and psychiatric symptoms on 321 parents of children aged 5-6 years...licts, the father's work schedule, and the child's psychiatric symptoms were controlled for statistically. The adjusted odds ratios were 2.91 (95% CI 1.03-8.17) an...

Ritalin Could Help In Focussing The Mind

...have a success rate higher than any other class of psychiatric drugs. Co-author Waterhouse said that it becomes more a paradox as these drugs are all stimulants, and they produce an opposite effect on patients with ADHD, this he explained was probably due to the disease manifesting itself as a type of neurologic...

War Trauma Not Passed On To Partners And Children, Study

...f-kin of war victims look like the complaints from psychiatric patients - sleeplessness, anxiety, tension or reliving of experiences related by the relevant family member,’ Veeninga writes. ‘Some researches refer to 'secondary trauma', but there is no proof that this exists,’ Veeninga, chairman of the Dutch as...

Skin Test plus DNA Testing To Detect Mental Illness

...e used in remote areas, many miles from specialist psychiatric help. As a progenitor test kit the Ness Foundation has already developed skin and breath tests that aid in the diagnosis of symptoms of schizophrenia. Douglas Mundie, foundation chairman, said that with the help of these kits trained psychiatrists ca...

Post Partum Blues Often Treated with Drugs

...most 25 per cent of all maternal deaths are due to psychiatric causes. Symptoms of depression include constant ...women of whom 63 per cent were admitted in general psychiatric wards instead of specialist mother and baby units. Mind's chief Executive, Paul Farmer, said: "Emo...

Even Hospitals Not Drug Proof

...use is very common among patients. It is said that psychiatric patients with drugs problems kill up to 32 people ...igures showing how widespread illegal drugs are on psychiatric wards. Peter Phillips, a former nurse, found that about 50% of the patients in hospitals admitted to...

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