Psychiatric News Current Issue

Journal Digest

Sinclair L. — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Recovered BPD Patients More Likely to Marry, Have Children

Moran M. — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Recovery from borderline personality disorder, including stable marriage and childrearing, is quite possible but may happen later in life after patients have had time to deal with their illness.

AMA’s Psychiatrist President Hails Involvement of APA

Moran M. — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Jeremy Lazarus, M.D., says that the high profile of psychiatry within the AMA has helped to sharpen that organization’s focus on mental health issues.

Psychiatrists Have Role in Assessing Candidates for Asylum

Moran M. — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Cultural factors and the effects of mental illness related to past trauma can significantly color an applicant’s presentation before a judge or asylum officer.

Convocation Speaker Calls for ‘Century of the Mind’

Moran M. — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

What has long been called the “mind” can now be understood as the growth of connections between neurons that arises from individual human encounter with experience.

For Now, Preventive Efforts Are Best Alzheimer’s Weapon

Levin A. — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Several factors can help maintain the brain’s health as people age, says a geriatric psychiatry expert.

DSM-5 Offers Creative Teaching Opportunity

Moran M. — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Educators should focus on underlying concepts of diagnosis and why psychiatric nosology changes over time with emerging research.

Jeste Looks to a ‘Positive Psychiatry’ for an Aging Population

Moran M. — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The outgoing APA president hails the publication of DSM-5 and the accomplishments of retiring APA Medical Director James H. Scully Jr., M.D.

Lieberman Says it’s ‘Our Time’ for Equity and Fairness in Mental Health

Moran M. — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The new APA president cites astonishing advances in psychiatric research and a broad acceptance of the importance of mental health as reasons to be optimistic.

New Evidence Said to Challenge Psychiatry’s Basic Paradigms

Levin A. — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Now is the time to rethink the basic ideas shaping psychiatric practice and return to an emphasis on nontechnical concepts, says an eminent psychiatrist from Ireland.

Prescribing Bill Dies in Illinois Legislature

Hausman K. — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Illinois psychologists are unsuccessful in their legislative push to expand their scope of practice to include the right to prescribe.

Foundation Honors Programs on Minority Mental Health

Levin A. — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

At the APA annual meeting, the American Psychiatric Foundation hands out four awards recognizing outreach and care for minority communities.

Data Point to Enzyme’s Role in Stress, Depression

Yan J. — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Experiments on neurons, stress hormones, and proteins clarify a chain of events that impair neural growth in a key part of the brain and suggest a new strategy to treat depression.

Visual Perception Appears Heightened in Autism

Yan J. — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Children with autism have more heightened visual sensitivity to moving objects than peers without autism, which may point to their brain’s difficulty in filtering and controlling outside signals.

Benson Sums Up Year as Assembly Speaker

Hausman K. — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Psychiatrist Exposes How Public Policies Have Devastated Health of Communities

Bender E. — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

While meant to be restorative, many urban-renewal policies create harmful mental health conditions for community residents. One psychiatrist is tackling these issues and encourages her colleagues to do the same.

Med Students Can Learn From—and Teach—Psychiatry Residents

Scarff J. — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

China Needs to Build Community Mental Health Structure

Arehart-Treichel J. — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Now that China’s first national mental health law has taken effect, a major challenge will be to build a community mental health infrastructure where none exists.