DSM-5 enters the diagnostic fray | Body & Brain | Science Newsby scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
View larger image | The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual has grown from a basic attempt to codify mental illnesses into a complex classification system that is used throughout health care.
Don't Do Something; Just Sit There by By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D
Doing nothing is different from doing no harm, that endlessly advertised professional goal for doctors. You can do a lot of things and still do no harm — and often not much good either.
The Triumph of the Working Mother by By STEPHANIE COONTZ
Those who stay at home report more sadness, anger and depression.
A judge accepted James E. Holmes’s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, setting the stage for a lengthy evaluation of his mental condition at the time of the shooting last year.
New findings are bolstering the view that mysterious symptoms in Persian Gulf war veterans are fundamentally biological in nature, as opposed to psychological, the result of combat stress.
A study that explores abortion’s impact by looking at women who get to the clinic too late.
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On May 2-3, 2013, the Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health (ORDGMH) in the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invited stakeholders from around the world to present study designs and key considerations for mental health services research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); discuss the interface of advocacy, policy and research; and identify developments in research capacity-building. A total of 130 participants from low-, middle-, and high- income countries attended the gathering in-person or via telecommunication technology.
Brain-training computer games may help restore memory and competency to forensic psychiatry patients in state mental hospitals, researchers say. Computer software designed to improve memory and thinking may be used with psychotherapy, medication and other approaches to help these patients, considered among the most severely mentally ill, said Dr. Anthony O...
Leading Experts to Speak at Vatican about the Controversy of Children and ...
The International News Magazine An interdisciplinary team of the world's leading authorities, including award winning journalist Robert Whitaker (Anatomy of an Epidemic), acclaimed Harvard psychologist Irving Kirsch (The Emperor's New Drugs), and renowned psychiatrists Sami Timimi ... |
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser In an editorial published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors and a professor of medical ethics urged Guantanamo's prison doctors to refuse to force feed hunger strikers, saying to do so is a violation of ethical obligations ... and more » |
Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed
WLOS He said he doesn't get much news about Guantanamo in Saudi Arabia but that the world should not be surprised that prisoners are back on strike. "The men there today are going through the same experience ... In an editorial published Wednesday in the ... and more » |
An international team of researchers, including the Miller School's Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard M. Miller Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has discovered a neural basis for this association. The study, published in the June 1 issue of the American Journal ofPsychiatry, shows that sexually abused and emotionally mistreated children exhibit specific and differential changes in the architecture of their brain that reflect the nature of ...
