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45,000 More Psychiatrists, Anyone?
August 3rd 2010Houston, we have a problem. There is a critical shortage of psychiatrists. And the problem is not in Houston alone-it includes the entire state of Texas, and every other state in the union (Mid-town Manhattan, Boston’s Beacon Hill, and Sacramento Street in San Francisco might be exceptions).
TAR: Substance abuse and HIV formatting
August 3rd 2010The authors are affiliated with the section of General Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, in New Haven, CT. Dr. Tetrault is an assistant professor of medicine, Dr. Fiellin is an associate professor of medicine, and Dr. Sullivan is an assistant professor of medicine.
Social Interaction Increases Survival by 50%
July 31st 2010Recent findings indicate that social interaction is a key to living longer. Theoretical models have suggested that social relationships influence health through stress reduction and by more direct protective effects that promote healthy behavior.
High School Students With ADHD: The Group Most Likely to...Fizzle
July 28th 2010Adolescents with ADHD, conduct disorder, or who smoke cigarettes are less likely to finish high school on time and more likely to drop out altogether, researchers at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine have found.
Integrity in CME: Understanding the Problem of Bias
July 24th 2010The varied proponents of models for the regulation of CME programs for physicians would all agree that the primary charge of these programs is to provide physicians with scientifically unbiased information on issues or knowledge that affects medical practice.
New Guidelines For Diagnosing Alzheimer's: Wishful Thinking... Dangerous Consequences
July 23rd 2010Previously, I have been quite critical of the DSM-5 suggestion to introduce a new diagnosis-- Minor Neurocognitive Disorder--on the grounds that it would create a large false positive problem and would lead to unnecessary worry and cost with no useful intervention.
Are Men Losing Their Edge? A Reversal of Roles
July 21st 2010A recent story in the Atlantic magazine, The End of Men, explores gender issues in the 21st century. Women now make up the majority of the workforce, and women outnumber men 3 to 2 in getting a college degree. Is postindustrial society more suited to women?
Major Depressive Disorder Quiz
July 20th 2010Efficacy and safety of bupropion and SSRIs in comorbid depression and restless legs syndrome? Which psychiatric scale has proven useful for tracking depression when Electroconvulsive Therapy is involved? These questions and more in this week's Mine Your Mind quiz.
Alzheimer’s Disease Without Dis-ease? New Conundrums for Psychiatric Diagnosis and Public Health
July 19th 2010Researchers who have spent their careers studying schizophrenia and mood disorders might be forgiven a bit of “biomarker envy.” At long last, it seems that the neurologists and neuropsychiatrists have developed some fairly sensitive and specific “lab tests” for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).
Response to: “Psychiatric Symptoms Can be Understood Even When These Symptoms Cannot Be Explained”
July 16th 2010Dr Muller, in his piece “Psychiatric Symptoms Can be Understood Even When These Symptoms Cannot Be Explained,” makes a number of assertions about DSM-III and its successors that reflect a mischaracterization of its “descriptive approach.”
Psychiatric Symptoms Can Be Understood Even When These Symptoms Cannot Be Explained
July 16th 2010What is transparent to one person may be opaque to another. It is clear to me that before symptoms can be used to make a valid psychiatric diagnosis the meaning and context of these symptoms must be taken into account. Many clinicians do not see it that way. Neither did the DSM-III and its subsequent editions.
