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More Than Four Percent of US Adults Have Some Form of Bipolar Disorder

... assess the presence of bipolar disorder and other psychiatric conditions. Participants were classified as having...th sub-threshold bipolar disorder also had another psychiatric condition, such as an anxiety disorder or substance use disorder, which is a frequent complication o...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

... (OPD) of the valleys only government hospital for psychiatric diseases jumped from six per day in 1990 to 250-30...ge group of 20 to 40. Of the people suffering from psychiatric disorders, 55 percent are women. The commonest disorder is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) followe...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

...any signs or known risk of serious neurological or psychiatric disorders. Recruitment and screening were handled by a Clinical Coordinating Center at Washington University. A Data Coordinating Center at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University in Quebec is overseeing the imaging arm of the stud...

Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care

...and established a stronger link between trauma and psychiatric support. The 2002 bombs, killed just over 200 pe...h nursing were available to provide advice, but no psychiatric reviews were requested by staff that treated the victims or prepared them for transfer to hospitals ...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...than 35,000 youngsters for medical, neurologic and psychiatric disorders, as well as for family histories that point to potential problems or prenatal exposure to toxins. Only 450 of the children met the strict criteria. The children's mental acuity and social skills were assessed using a variety of tests comm...

Limiting Eligibility for Medical Studies can Omit Women and African-Americans

...nts, because of eligibility requirements involving psychiatric problems, employment and housing problems, and dru...teria commonly used in treatment outcome research: psychiatric problems, neurological problems, medical problems, drug use, non-compliance issues, and social and r...

Brain Cells Activity: New Treatment Target for Psychiatric Diseases

...ays. They also provide new treatment targets for psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and neurological disorders such as epilepsy, researchers say. The genes are both associated with schizophrenia, a disease that affects about 1 percent of the population, but the exact role of malfunctioning neuregulin...

Brain Activity Reflects Variation in Types of Anxiety

... anxiety disorders are the most regularly reported psychiatric disorders in the U.S. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classifies almost a dozen different anxiety disorders, from severe stress disorder to obsessive-compulsive disorder to panic attack and PTSD. But those who study and tr...

Examiners Charged in Philippines Nursing Test Scandal

...notes traced to Dionisio, the assigned examiner in psychiatric nursing, found their way to nursing graduates at the same centre, as well as at another in Manila. Gutierrez said the leaks enabled the students enrolled in those schools to sail through the test sections. She said a number of other unidentified pe...

Research Says Small Penis Syndrome Affects Men Than Women

...orough urological, psychosexual, psychological and psychiatric assessment, possibly with more than one clinician involved say the authors. Conservative approaches to therapy, based on education and self-awareness, as well as short-term structured psychotherapies, are often successful. They authors are, howev...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

...ce of trained personnel, do what they can to treat psychiatric patients from across the country. The situation is not different in the case of psychologists, occupational therapists and counselors and the like. here has been a steady decline in the number of frontline mental health workers over the years. T...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

... Certain dopamine- blocking drugs used to treat psychiatric disorders Another postulate is that an imbalance in the neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, could cause dystonia. Regarding the course of the disease, it is difficult to estimate its duration. The unpredictability of its progression makes the sit...

Cancer Drug Induces HDAC Inhibitor and Enhance Long-term Memory

... other conditions such as drug addiction and other psychiatric disorders, said Marcelo Wood, assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology . Wood and his colleagues placed mice in a chamber and gave them mild electric shocks, Afterward, scientists injected HDAC inhibitors into the brains of mice, targ...

'Man's Best Friend' Could Be a Useful Companion in Overcoming Depression

...ness," said Rakesh Jain, M.D., M.P.H., director of psychiatric drug research, R/D Clinical Research Center, Lake Jackson, Texas. "While a doctor, family and friends should form the basis of any support network, dogs can play an important role by being a constant companion. They can help reduce these emotional sy...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

...s, they were carefully assessed on a wide range of psychiatric symptom and functioning domains, such as depression, anger, social functioning, suicidal behaviors, impulsivity, social adjustment, and various forms of irritability and aggression. At the end of the year of treatment, a detailed examination of the...

Prison Healthcare Under Strain as Overcrowding Crisis Worsens, Warns BMA

... mentally ill. In some areas prisoners with severe psychiatric conditions have to wait weeks before being transferred to appropriate care units. Emergency Measures The introduction of emergency measures that involve keeping prisoners in police cells is inappropriate and potentially harmful to the prisoner, a...

Hospitals in Older Cities Close Down, Blacks Worst Affected

... "They are despairing about their futures." "Our psychiatric intervention program is swamped already," said Ben Carter, chief operating officer of the Detroit Medical Center, one of the health systems that would be most affected. The Detroit area already has a shortage of mental health beds, and the 25 to 30...

Philippine Nurses Re-sit Scandal-tainted Exams

...ting of papers that dealt with medical surgery and psychiatric health care. The scandal which followed placed a question mark over the 17,000 students who passed the exam in June 2006 and brought into question the quality of Filipino nurses, who are in huge demand overseas. The World Health Organisation (WHO) ha...

Obesity Pill Zimulti Increases Depression, Suicidal Thoughts

...bant's adverse event profile, specifically adverse psychiatric reactions," an FDA staff summary said. The trials showed that in people who took the drug were twice as likely to develop depression than those who received a placebo. However, the drug's manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis insisted that though more rimona...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...h the projected rise in functional impairments and psychiatric morbidity among veterans of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, clinical and community interventions that are directed towards these patients are needed. The military has seen a number of high-profile incidents of alleged abuse in the wars in I...

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