Psychiatry

The International Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project (IPAP) offers several Web-based algorithms for the systematic treatment of major Axis I psychiatric disorders.

Women who have been diagnosed recently with cancer or multiple sclerosis are six times more likely to be separated or divorced than their recently diagnosed male counterparts, according to a study in Cancer.

The FDA has sent a letter to 30 companies warning that it hasn’t approved beverages containing both caffeine and alcohol, and that it intends to begin removing such products from store shelves in 30 days if the companies can’t explain why such products are safe and legal.

The weight gain that is often seen in children taking antipsychotic medications can also have a negative impact on metabolic factors in those children.

Bipolar disorder may be a condition that afflicted patients eventually outgrow, according to a new study from the University of Missouri.

Dr. Nina Silverberg of the National Institute on Aging, discusses Alzheimer's Disease.

Benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed medications, and there are a number of misconceptions among laypeople about their proper use, so they deserve a thorough discussion.

Researchers from Yale University have discovered a way to repair damage to the brain caused by stress and how to prevent further damage from occurring.

The FDA yesterday approved Invega Sustenna, an extended-release injectable suspension, for the acute and maintenance treatment of schizophrenia in adults.

From a pharmacologic perspective metoclopramide is much closer to antipsychotic drugs, in that it is, in part, a blocker of central dopamine receptors.

Data presented at the 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in show that combination therapy with the investigational drug dimebon (latrepiridine) and donepezil HCl tablets was well tolerated in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.

Cognitive behavior therapy is ineffective for the treatment and prevention of relapses of many psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, new research has found.

A study has found that the children of parents who have an anxiety disorder are at a much greater risk for developing an anxiety disorder themselves.

A new study has found that using morphine patches as a substitute for other habit-forming pain medications, may actually be more dangerous than helpful.

New research from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario has shown that certain receptors in the brain are responsible for the way that humans process emotions and create memories.

A new study has found that patients with a serious mental illness are actually more likely to become the victim of a violent crime than they are to commit one.

A new study published in Psychoneuroendocrinology found that the stress hormone cortisol, may be linked to some of the symptoms of Asperger Syndrome.

Medtronic’s Reclaim Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy became the first deep brain stimulation device approved by the FDA to treat a psychiatric condition.

Reforming healthcare often took center stage during the presidential campaign. Having won the election, President Obama continues to tout healthcare reform as one of the top issues he wants addressed his first year in office.

With the help of functional MRI (fMRI), Italian researchers at the University of Udine have found that in patients who suffer from stress-related psychiatric disorders, the neural circuitry that links the prefrontal cortex to the hippocampus is dysfunctional, hampering memory suppression.

Andy Josephson, MD, is an assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the Neurohospitalist Program.

Although deep brain stimulation (DBS) is typically used as a last resort treatment for people with Parkinson’s disease (and other neurological and psychiatric disorders), it is important that technology and research companies remain up to date on recent developments to make it easier to treat patients with these diseases.

FMRI shows that reactions in the brain to anticipatory pain are stronger among persons with major depressive disorder.

Our most modern iteration of the portable, wirelessly connected, handwriting- and speech-recognition-capable computer is the "tablet PC."