News tagged with psychiatrists
Why older people are less astute drivers and how the answer could help us understand depression
When elderly drivers get behind the wheel, they often confront the harrowing reality that they cannot easily see other cars, pedestrians, or cyclists moving around them. This frightening effect of aging, it ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Childhood adversity may lead to unhealthy stress response in adult life
Seemingly healthy adults, if they were abused or neglected during childhood, may suffer physiological consequences decades later. In research published online last week by the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, a team led by ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Therapists still offering treatments for homosexuality despite lack of evidence
A significant minority of psychiatrists and therapists are still attempting to help lesbian, gay and bisexual clients become heterosexual despite lack of evidence that such treatment is beneficial or even safe, according ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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A psychopath lacks empathy just like a person with frontal head injury
People diagnosed as psychopathic have difficulty showing empathy, just like patients who have suffered frontal head injury. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. "Our findings show that people who ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Kept in chains: Mental illness rampant in Somalia
(AP) -- Hassan Qasim lies shackled to a wall in a hallway with 25 other patients at a clinic for the mentally ill. He whispers under his breath and spits at his neighbors. Torn and dirty clothes hang off ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 20, 2011 |
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Brown professor continues debate over recovered memory
Fueling the debate over the controversial psychiatric disorder known as dissociative amnesia, or repressed memory, Brown University political scientist Ross Cheit is challenging claims by two Harvard University psychiatrists. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Interest in shock treatment is growing despite decades-old controversy
Recently, actress and writer Carrie Fisher told Oprah Winfrey that she receives electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) regularly to treat depression caused by her bipolar disorder. Taken aback, Winfrey asked, "They still do that?"
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Our children aren't sleeping and we're medicating them
A new survey of child psychiatrists indicates that insomnia is a major problem among children in mental health treatment and at least a quarter of these patients are given sleep medication. The results of ...
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Video chat expands possibilities for face-to-face services
You once had to leave home to see a psychiatrist for therapy, a music teacher for guitar lessons or a makeup artist for face-to-face consultations. Now they can come to you, virtually, through video chat.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Psychiatrist discusses dangers of 'E-personality' in latest podcast
(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychiatrist Elias Aboujaoude, MD, discusses the Internet's psychological impact and how our online traits are unconsciously being imported into our offline lives in this podcast. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 09, 2011 |
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UK: New guidelines to ease sleepless nights
Insomnia and other sleep disorders are very common, yet are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals. Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) has released up-to-the-minute ...
Sep 02, 2010 |
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When women deny their own pregnancies
Whether the French woman who killed eight of her newborns suffered from a syndrome known as pregnancy denial may determine if she faces major prison time or intensive psychiatric care.
Aug 01, 2010 |
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