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Facebook has a new app called Timeline. I have posted my first Life Story today:
OVERCOMING AN ILLNESS:
Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective Disorder
Initially diagnosed with depression in 1994 at the age of 18, I was prescribed antidepressants, including the newest of the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). Unfortunately, the SSRIs triggered mania, and to combat it, I began to drink, which intensified my psychological instability and led to an addiction that I was...Read Full Story
There are many branches of medicine, one of them is something called: Forensic Psychiatry . Forensic Psychiatry focuses on the law and mental health . It involves psychiatric consultation during legal matters such as expert testimony, clinical work with perpetrators and victims and also when other parties are involved in potential litigation with a psychiatric connection. A forensic psychiatrist is a psychiatrist who is also a medical doctor and has completed additional training in the...Read Full Story
Dear Readers,
Here we are near the closing of 2011. Since the inception of this website and blog I believe in April this year, we’ve just about reached the 100,000 hits mark. It’s a lot to take in. Could be within the next few minutes this landmark will occur.
Facebook has a new app called Timeline. I have posted my first Life Story today:
OVERCOMING AN ILLNESS:
Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective Disorder
Initially diagnosed with depression in 1994 at the age of 18, I was prescribed...Read Full Story
SIRS – Hallucinations
SIRS – Hallucinations Track from „Drowning In Schizophrenic Depression” ILLNESS / SIRS split 2011 Out now in Nihil Art Records www.nihilart.ru L.Ghost – Sick Ideas, Inhuman Sounds Gulnar — Saws, Injections, Vocals Samples taken from movie “Play” – Fabio Zuliani
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Article by Peter Hutch
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that has been recognized throughout recorded history. It affects about 1 percent of Americans...Read Full Story
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Several biological markers of psychiatric illness have been repeatedly supported by careful studies over several decades; for example, abnormal smooth pursuit eye movements in schizophrenia 6 and derangements of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal ...
This is just creepy:A study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has concluded that distrust of the government is a treatable mental disorder. Known as "AGP" or "anti-government phobia," the study claims: "...that unfounded fear of government is a recognizable mental illness, closely related to paranoid schizophrenia. Anti-Government Phobia (AGP) differs from most mental illnesses, however, in that it is highly infectious and has an acute...
Researchers at Zucker Hillside Hospital's Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program who have worked with teenagers at risk for serious mental illness for the past decade are now studying the effectiveness of Omega 3 fatty acids (fish oil) for treating psychiatric symptoms. This new study is a National Institute of Mental Health-funded randomized double-blind trial that was designed to test whether Omega...
Both cognitive and affective processes require mental resources. However, it remains unclear whether these 2 processes work in parallel or in an integrated fashion. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated their interaction using an empathy-for-pain paradigm, with simultaneous manipulation of cognitive demand of the tasks and emotional valence of the stimuli. Eighteen healthy adult participants viewed photographs...
What we practice now involves the use of multiple antipsychotics ... particularly the NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor, the dopamine-1 receptor, the cholinergic receptors, and specifically those cholinergic receptors stimulated by nicotine ...
One of the leaders of the study, John Krystal MED ’84, chair of the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, said that the research contradicted earlier research claiming that placebos were just as effective as antidepressants.
Dr Lynch is a PGY-3 Resident in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto; Ms Rabin is a PhD student in the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto; Dr George is Professor and Chair in Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Toronto ...
DOHA: The Hamad Medical Corporation’s Psychiatry Department will hold an Open Day seminar on schizophrenia on January 25. The open discussion in English and Arabic will take place from 5pm to 7pm at HMC’s Psychiatry Department located next to The ...
Harrell Street in Morrisville is what locals call a quiet, close-knit neighborhood, home to a number of retirees and a few young families. So when residents received a letter this month seeking a zoning variation to allow Lamoille County Mental Health ...
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/aeba65/sick_on_the_job) has announced the addition of OECD Publishing 's new report "Sick on the Job?: Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work" to their ...
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