Recently added articles from Clinical Psychiatry News:
DSM-V task force weighing changes.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Physicians and researchers charged with updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders expect significant changes for the next edition, due to debut in about 3 years. The proposed revisions will affect not only the DSM-V's specific disorder criteria, but the ...
Severe anxiety presages suicide risk, data show: expert questions traditional indicators.
Apr 01, 2009; ... SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M.--A growing body of evidence shows that severe anxiety often precedes suicide attempts in psychiatric patients, Dr. Jan Fawcett said at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. In some studies, suicidal patients have documented ...
Combo drug is approved for resistant depression.
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of Eli Lilly's olanzapine/fluoxetine combination drug Symbyax for recalcitrant depression has been hailed as an important advance in the management of patients with major depressive disorder who do not respond to multiple standard ...
Vital signs.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Psychiatry Fills 99% of Residency Positions in 2009 ...
APA board votes to drop industry-sponsored symposia.
Apr 01, 2009; ... The American Psychiatric Association has become one of the first professional societies to take a step away from the appearance of conflict of interest with a decision to repudiate industry-sponsored symposia. The group's board of trustees voted in mid-March to eventually phase ...
Suicide bombers deconstructed.(EDITORIAL)
Apr 01, 2009; ... What makes the suicide bomber tick? As mental health professionals, it is incumbent upon us to understand and consider the possibilities. The existence of suicide bombers dates back at least to World War II, when some Japanese soldiers tied bombs around their waists and jumped ...
The dog ate my buprenorphine!(EDITORIAL)
Apr 01, 2009; ... During the nearly 6 years I have been treating opiate dependence with buprenorphine, I have heard a variety of explanations for requests for additional orders: It got wet. It was stolen. I lost it. It fell in the toilet. The police confiscated it. A patient who has been taking ...
Long-term therapy has its place.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I enjoy reading Dr. Robert T. London's column and would like to respond to the recent one on psychotherapy ("Reframing Therapy for the 21st Century," The Psychiatrist's Toolbox, January 2009, p. 16). I would have to disagree with his negative critique of psychodynamic psychotherapy and ...
Therapy: we must stay in forefront.(LETTERS)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I am in total agreement with Dr. Robert T. London when he talks about the need to change our thinking about psychotherapeutic care ("Refraining Therapy for the 21st Century," The Psychiatrist's Toolbox, January 2009, p. 16). We psychiatrists are seen more as "pill pushers" than ...
Red balloon technique is positive.(LETTERS)(Hypnosis)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I want to thank Dr. Robert T. London for his column about helping patients cope with tough economic times ("How About a Bailout for Our Patients," The Psychiatrist's Toolbox, December 2008, p. 15). He certainly gave some useful advice about helping patients and their families ...
Word of caution on opioids.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2009; ... A word of caution is due on the use of opioids for chronic pain resulting from arthritis ("Guidelines Focus on Opioids for Chronic Pain," March 2009, p. 10). Except for unusually severe osteoarthritis or fibromyalgia, opioids are not appropriate. If they are needed, it should be considered ...
Funding by industry biases research.(Does pharmaceutical industry funding bias research?)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Over the last few years, concern about industry-funded bias in research has been growing. The pharmaceutical industry funds slightly more than half of the research being done today. The National Institutes of Health comes next, funding 29%, and the rest is funded by academic ...
Non-industry funded research can be biased, too.(Does pharmaceutical industry funding bias research?)
Apr 01, 2009; ... For almost 100 years, industry has been a powerful motivating force in the creation of new technology and the underwriting of scientific research. But in the last 2 decades, there has been a campaign to decry industry funding, claiming that such funding is tainting research. It ...
Revised imagery protocol may help some vets.(ADULT PSYCHIATRY)
Apr 01, 2009; ... CHICAGO -- Imagery rehearsal for posttraumatic nightmares was not notably effective in a randomized controlled trial in Vietnam veterans, but after tweaking the protocol, it proved more successful in a pilot study in Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. "We believe very firmly that ...
PTSD tied to metabolic syndrome in veterans.(ADULT PSYCHIATRY)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Posttraumatic stress disorder appears to have a significant relationship with the development of metabolic syndrome, Pia S. Heppner, Ph.D., and her colleagues have reported. Their observational study of 253 male and female veterans found that the risk for metabolic syndrome increased by 1% ...
Trauma in ED: brief interventions can help.(ADULT PSYCHIATRY)
Apr 01, 2009; ... CHICAGO -- Repeated, brief psychological interventions performed in the emergency department within minutes of a trauma did not significantly reduce subsequent rates of posttraumatic stress syndrome in a retrospective analysis of 129 survivors of terrorist attacks. The primary ...
Fink! Still at large: random violence such as the recent shooting in Alabama raises questions about survivor guilt. How can psychiatrists help near-victims of these tragedies process their emotions?(ADULT PSYCHIATRY)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The shooting spree in Alabama just a few weeks ago, allegedly by a 28-year-old man named Michael McLendon, appears to have been carried out, paradoxically, both without thought and with thorough planning. It was a cold-blooded crime, details found in news reports show. Exposure ...
CAM: a valuable adjunct.(THE PSYCHIATRIST'S TOOLBOX)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The use of nontraditional, or complementary and alternative therapies to address health problems in. this country is more common now more than ever. A survey by The National Center for Health Statistics ("Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults and Children: ...
Doxazosin may help ease PTSD symptoms, nightmares.
Apr 01, 2009; ... CHICAGO -- A controlled-re-lease formulation of the anti-hypertension medication doxazosin significantly reduced nightmares and overall posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in a small open-label trial. Doxazosin (Cardura), a selective [[alpha].sub.1]-antagonist, is approved ...
Obesity raises risk for postpartum depression.(ADULT PSYCHIATRY)
Apr 01, 2009; ... SAN DIECO -- Prepregnancy obesity is an independent risk factor for postpartum depression, a large analysis demonstrates. Common pregnancy stressors such as divorce or separation or involvement in a physical fight also were found to increase the risk. "While I ...