Brain Aging and Dementia: Practical Tips From Clinical Research
June 29th 2012Age is a major risk factor for the development of Alzheimer disease and other dementias. New technologies in brain imaging represent major advances in our ability to diagnose age-related cognitive and behavioral disorders.
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Ethics Quiz: When Dad Refuses Nursing Home Care
March 5th 2012Educated and successful individuals, Mr H's children seem able to understand that their father can no longer make his own decisions, but they continue to defer to him for medical and disposition decisions stating, “whatever he wants to do.”
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Mild Cognitive Impairment-An Added Value to Patient and Physician
February 29th 2012While there are currently no treatments for AD, it is important to examine what we are treating. By the time AD is diagnosed by clinical symptoms, 8 to possibly 15 years of pathological damage has already occurred.
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Two Fallacies Invalidate the DSM-5 Field Trials
January 10th 2012The designer of the DSM-5 Field Trials has just written a telling commentary in the American Journal of Psychiatry. She makes what I consider to be 2 basic errors that reveal the fundamental worthlessness of these Field Trials and their inability to provide any information that will be useful for DSM-5 decision making.
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How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old
December 7th 2011In his book, How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old, Dr Marc Agronin helps reduce the stigma of ageism and provides clinical guidance for seasoned geriatric psychiatrists, primary care clinicians, and medical students alike.
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You Say “Yes,” I Say “No,” You Say “Goodbye,” and I Say “Hello”
November 17th 2011In theory, psychiatrists possess no special skills for determining capacity of a patient to accept or refuse medical care, yet a large percentage of a psychosomatic physician’s work nonetheless involves capacity evaluations.
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Treating Mental Illness Before it Strikes
October 28th 2011Psychotic episodes are devastating for the individuals who have them, their friends, and families. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if individuals could receive treatment before the first psychotic episode strikes, so that it could be avoided altogether?
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Are We Training Psychiatrists to Provide Only Medication Management?
June 28th 2011If psychiatry reduces or abandons its engagement with psychology and social science in understanding and treating mental disorders and focuses predominantly on the biological factors of mental disorders, what will our role as psychiatrists be?
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The 2011 Psychiatric Times Ethics Survey: Moral Struggles
June 8th 2011The goal of the survey was to go beyond ethical lessons, useful as these may be, and to learn how Psychiatric Times’ readers-who are on the front line of psychiatric practice-handle a series of hypothetical ethical scenarios.
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A Growing Crisis in Mental Health Among the Nation’s Elderly?
May 24th 2011A report of dropoffs of elderly individuals at hospitals, elderly persons being reported for socially inappropriate behavior, and an increase in 911 calls concerning elderly relatives with dementia attacking family members and caregivers.
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Ethical Issues in Psychopharmacology
May 7th 2011Excellence in psychopharmacology demands sensitivity to the associated ethical considerations. The key considerations of psychiatry are both complex and dynamic, and psychiatrists who develop and refine their ethics skill set will be in a better position to anticipate and respond to ethical dilemmas as they arise in their practice.
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