Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology

During the past 2 decades, psychiatry has benefited from an increasingly evidence-based perspective and a proliferation of safer, more tolerable, and perhaps more effective treatments. Despite these advances, however, treatment outcomes are not substantially better than they were a quarter of a century ago.

http://psychiatrictimes.com/bipolar-disorder/content/article/10168/1946385

Imaging Study Shows How Family Violence Changes Brain Activity

Family violence appears to increase a child's sensitivity to detect potential additional threats, as researchers found brain changes are analogous to those found in soldiers exposed to combat. The study...

http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/12/06/imaging-study-shows-how-family-violence-changes-brain-activity/32238.html

Loneliness May Disrupt Sleep

A new study shows that people who feel lonely are more likely to wake up during the night and have fragmented sleep. Study results may help explain why loneliness is associated with ill health effects...

Materialism makes for rocky relationships, study suggests

The study - published in the Oct. 13 issue of the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy - suggests that materialistic couples are unhappier and fight ...

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Autism 5 times more common among low birth weight babies Babies born with low birth weights are five times more likely than the general population to be diagnosed with some form of autism, new research suggests.

New ADHD Guidelines Updated to Include Broader Age Range With our greater awareness now about ADHD and better ways of diagnosing and treating this disorder, more children are being helped.

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• Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Struggle
• The Power of Rescuing Others: Marsha Linehan, a therapist and researcher at the University of Washington who suffered from borderline ...