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