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Multiple Regions of the Brain Locate Pain

...at patients with widespread pain may get sent to a psychiatrist rather than a pain clinic,” said Coghill. “This study expands our notion of where in the brain the ‘where’ component of pain is processed – it’s not as simple as we thought,” said Coghill. “Brain mechanisms that process the location of pain now ap...

Alarming Trend In Eating Disorders In Children

...l Scientific Meeting shortly. Child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Dasha Nicolls from Great Ormond Street Hospital said that eating disorders occur when someone is worried about their weight or shape. JYT...

Early Psychosis Is Dangerous

...ical Journal of Australia (MJA), Dr Olav Nielssen, psychiatrist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, and his co-authors review homicides committed during psychotic illness in NSW between 1993 and 2002. Of the 88 subjects, 54 (61 per cent) were in their first episode of psychotic illness and had not received eff...

Severe PTSD Damages Children's Brains: Study

...ting with your dad," said Packard Children's child psychiatrist Victor Carrion, MD. "We're talking about traumatic stress. These kids feel like they're stuck in the middle of a street with a truck barreling down at them." Carrion, assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the medical school and ...

French Psychiatrists to Study Indian Value System

...re to know more about it," said Patrick Bantman, a psychiatrist from Paris. "We have been exploring different dimensions of mental health and how to tackle it. India is a huge country and its traditional knowledge should be explored further. At the same time, we will share our expertise with our Indian counterp...

Improving Body Image Key to Treating Eating Disorders

...ove their body image, based on the work of British psychiatrist and researcher Christopher Fairburn. Patients in the program meet twice a week for cognitive-behavioral therapy and experiential therapy. In the cognitive-behavioral therapy group, patients learn to identify negative beliefs about their body image...

Faith May Help Stroke Victims

... stroke and other illnesses. Dr. Waguih IsHak, a psychiatrist from Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles feels that incase of widespread damage to brain cells, there is nothing that faith could do. IsHak also adds that psychotherapy can help handle emotional distress where people are not strongly oriented to...

Citalopram, a Boon in Treating Depressed Heart Patients

...mbating// depression. Dr. Fran?ois Lespérance, a psychiatrist at the University of Montreal and his colleagues published their findings in this week’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The drug celexa, which goes by the generic name citalopram, is prescribed for patients suffering fr...

Burn Patients Need More Help Coping With Depression

... reaction to disfigured people, said John Findley, psychiatrist for the burn and trauma unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. “But we can get (patients) to look at themselves differently, look beyond the skin and see the healthy person that was there before the thermal injury.” Source-Nwswise SRM...

Women's Sex Lives Mediocre

...ld’s preeminent experts on women’s sexuality and a psychiatrist with the University of Virginia Health System, exposes and explores this secret in her new book, Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy, which is scheduled for release by Ballentine/Random House in mid-January. Busy, overburdened lives...

Light Therapy Fights Depression With Sun Substitute

... and overall diminished vitality. Malek Bajbouj, psychiatrist at Berlin's Charité university hospital, said a person is said to be suffering winter depression when the depressive state occurs every day, lasts two weeks or longer and when the episodes occur in at least two consecutive years. Light therapy is t...

Who are Prone to Suicidal Tendencies?

... kind, was led by Dr Vincent Riordan, a consultant psychiatrist from New Craigs Hospital in Inverness, indicates a relationship between the number of children born to a woman and the risk of suicide on the later child. A study conducted in Sweden two years ago also showed similar susceptibility factors of committ...

Why Blame Women If They are More Expressive

...heir house not talking much. Dr. Luan Brizendine, psychiatrist at University of California, author of a book called “The Female Mind," and an eminent feminist claims that women tend to devote more brain cells in communicating that is why they tend to be more talkative. Dr. Brizendine, working at San-Francisco-...

Yeast Model Shows Promise as Alzheimer's Test

A century ago this month, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer formally described characteristics of the neurodegenerative disease //which ultimately came to bear his name. While international efforts to learn about Alzheimer's disease and develop treatments have progressed significantly in recen...

Alzheimer's - From Curiosity To Worldwide Disease

On Nov 3, 1906 the psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer presented a paper entitled "Regarding a curious disease of the cortex".// Alzheimer's colleagues did not immediately recognise the importance of his discovery. One century later, the name of Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) is known acro...

Does Child pornography lead to Child abuse?

...computer," said Dr. Humberto Temporini, a forensic psychiatrist at UC Davis Health System. The answer is often unclear – not least because Temporini and his colleagues are still in the process of developing a standardized way to evaluate the risk, or lack of it, posed by someone who collects kiddie porn on the In...

Well known Psychiatrist in UK faces charges for misconduct with client

...inst Dr Russell Reid one of the most famous gender psychiatrist in the UK for having apparently suggested to one of his clients to work as an ‘escort’ in order to pay for the costs that would be incurred for the sex change that the client required. The transsexual patient has alleged that the doctor told him th...

Like Children Like Parent?

...e prone to inattentiveness. Adelaide Robb, a child psychiatrist at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C confirms the aforesaid finding. Source-Eurekalert...

Stereotypes Contribute to Older Men Seeking, Receiving Depression Care Less Frequently

... thoughts, but nevertheless was unwilling to see a psychiatrist because he feared it would “mark him as crazy.” ...he second author on the study was Mark Zweifach, a psychiatrist from Kaiser Permanente, Southern California. Other collaborators on the study were Sabine Oishi and ...

With an aim to cure stuttering

...ammering could be developed from the findings of a psychiatrist of University of California//. Stuttering afflicts an estimated 3 million Americans. Dr. Gerald Maguire of the UC-Irvine, who stuttered as a child, is supporting the Indevus Pharmaceuticals in the effort to find a cure. The largest clinical trial o...

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