Friday, December 9, 2011

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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

Monday, October 17, 2011

First posts...


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.