http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/psychiatry/ en-us Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:07:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406363/posts New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows... --snip-- The F.D.A. has approved antipsychotic drugs for children specifically to treat schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder. But they are more frequently prescribed to children for other, less extreme conditions, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, aggression, persistent defiance or other so-called conduct disorders — especially when the... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406363/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:07:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391592/posts CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist. The eight trailers were used for nearly two years, until a permanent clinic was completed in September in another location on the base, said a Camp Lejeune medical spokesman, Navy Lt. j.g. Mark Jean-Pierre. The noise from training exercises "shook me up real bad. I couldn't take it. I almost ran out of there a couple of... military.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391592/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:43:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379505/posts DoctorFinder for Patients The information contained in the AMA DoctorFinder report does NOT meet the primary source equivalency requirement as set forth in the credentialing standards of accreditation organizations such as the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) or the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).Nidal Malik Hasan , MD (Non-Member) Primary Specialty (Self Designated)(note): PSYCHIATRY Location: Killeen, TX 76541 AMA Doctor Finder http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379505/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379502/posts A law enforcement official says a shooting suspect at a U.S. military base in Texas has been identified as Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan. A source tells CBS News investigative producer Len Tepper that Hasan is a licensed psychiatrist in Bethesda, Md. He is a drug and rehab specialist who got his Virginia psychiatry license July 12, 2005. The official said Hasan, believed to be in his late 30s, was killed after opening fire at Fort Hood. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly. According to the Army Times, Hasan... http://www.cbsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379502/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:24:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379503/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Associated Press is reporting that a source has told them the shooting suspect in Thursday's attacks on the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas is Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, an Army mental health professional. The attacks on Ft. Hood left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, who is said to be Hasan, and apprehended two other soldiers suspected in the attack. According to the AP, a defense official said Hasan was a mental health professional—either an Army psychologist or psychiatrist. It's not known if he was treating people at the post. The... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379503/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:24:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378428/posts FOX News: "Robert Gibbs said ‘well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.'" Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378428/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:24:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372533/posts Drugs that alleviate severe mental disorders can also result in troubling metabolic changes. Many young children and adolescents taking drugs for severe psychiatric problems gain substantial weight and, in some cases, show increased levels of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides in their blood, researchers report in the Oct. 28 Journal of the American Medical Association. Although the data from this study need to be replicated over a longer time frame, the findings nonetheless raise worrisome questions about anti-psychotic drugs that often benefit children who have schizophrenia, autism, tics, severe bipolar disorder or aggressive behavior. “We are between a rock and a... Science News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372533/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:41:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369388/posts Northwestern research finds drugs aim at wrong target CHICAGO --- More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The medications are like arrows shot at the outer rings of a bull's eye instead of the center. A study from the laboratory of long-time depression researcher Eva Redei, presented at the Neuroscience 2009 conference in Chicago this week, appears to topple two strongly held... Northwestern University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369388/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:20:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361286/posts To ensure that psychiatry “permeate every educational activity of national life” and “infiltrate the professional and social activities of [all] people” was a global goal that originated with British Brigadier General Dr. John Rawlings Rees in a 1940 speech to the National Council for Mental Hygiene. He ended on an ominous note: “Though our knowledge be incomplete … I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity.” Canadian colleague Dr. Brock Chisholm chimed in with sinister comments of his own at the close of the war in 1946, in a speech to the World... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361286/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:59:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2355477/posts Some children and teens are more likely than their peers to become addicted to the Internet, and a new study suggests it's more likely to happen if kids are depressed, hostile, or have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or social phobia. Although an Internet addiction is not an official diagnosis, signs of a potential problem include using the Internet so much for game playing or other purposes that it interferes with everyday life and decision-making ability. (The diagnosis is being considered for the 2012 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the "bible" of mental ailments published by... cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2355477/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:36:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329211/posts How could four individuals, two of them captors and one of them an abducted little girl, come to live together as a family unit for eighteen years? If police have it right, not only did Phillip Garrido, Nancy Garrido, Jaycee Lee Dugard and Garrido's mother live as a family unit, but Phillip Garrido and Jaycee Lee Dugard also had two daughters together (now 11 and 15 years old). As a forensic psychiatrist, I am interested in how this can happen and what each of them must have been thinking over all those years. Although I have examined none of these... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329211/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 06:20:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325396/posts As far as divorces go, Dr. Susan Diamond's divorce beginning in February of 1999 with her husband, Rick San Soucie, got rather nasty. Diamond was (and continues to be) a successful doctor specializing in patients with the HIV virus. San Soucie found his own financial success in business. Beyond that, Diamond already had four children with San Soucie and a fifth on the way when the divorce started. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325396/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:57:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319159/posts August 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A study led by Susan Cochran and her team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, published in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry, reports that homosexuals seek treatment for mental health issues or substance abuse at a rate over two times higher than heterosexuals. The study of 2074 people interviewed in the California Health Interview Survey found that 48.5% of homosexual and bisexual individuals reported receiving psychiatric or drug abuse treatment in the past year as compared to 22.5% of heterosexuals. When the research results were broken down by gender, the report... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319159/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:26:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2314535/posts As far as divorces go, Dr. Susan Diamond's divorce beginning in February of 1999 with her husband, Rick San Soucie, got rather nasty. Diamond was (and continues to be) a successful doctor specializing in patients with the HIV virus. San Soucie found his own financial success in business. Beyond that, Diamond already had four children with San Soucie and a fifth on the way when the divorce started. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2314535/posts#comment Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:30:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307755/posts WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday. About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307755/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:19:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307617/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday. About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found. "Significant increases in antidepressant use were evident across all sociodemographic groups examined, except African Americans," Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University in New York and Steven Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry. "Not... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307617/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 02:42:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2305527/posts HAVING BIPOLAR vs. BEING BIPOLAR (excerpt from the book, "Blessed With Bipolar: 36 God-Given Gifts of Manic Depression) I have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder does not have me. Bipolar disorder is not, my identity. It is not who I am. Bipolar disorder impacts my personality, emotions, and behavior. It does not dictate what I think, believe, say, or do. There are blessings that come with “having bipolar disorder.” “Being bipolar,” on the other hand, would be nothing but a burden. If I think of myself as “being bipolar” (or of bipolar as being my being), then I am controlled by... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2305527/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:25:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277092/posts Over the past year I have been going over articles about Asperger's syndrome. Asperger's syndrome is considered to be a highly functioning form of autism yet it is also considered to be a disability. Members of the autism community have worked for years trying to downplay the severity of the disorder. I first heard about Asperger's in 1998 while watching a documentary. Asperger's disorder was first invented by a German doctor named Hans Asperger. (the disorder was named after him.) Asperger did study on children who though they were bright were considered awkward. The world health organization began to use... MAINESTATEGOP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277092/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:30:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272511/posts For Ann Hohmann, Oct. 21, 2004, began just about like any other day. On that morning, the 54-year-old mother of two living in McAllen, Texas, was preparing to take her eldest son to school. She had an early appointment, so her husband, Rick Hohmann, would be dropping off younger son, 14-year-old Matthew, at his school that day. About a month earlier, Matthew had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. And like an estimated 2.5 million other children in the United States, he was taking medication for the condition. ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272511/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2271503/posts Free, imaginative play is crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed. Childhood play is crucial for social, emotional and cognitive ­development. Imaginative and rambunctious “free play,” as opposed to games or structured activities, is the most essential type. Kids and animals that do not play when they are young may grow into anxious, socially maladjusted adults. On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower... scientificamerican. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2271503/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:37:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267779/posts Researchers found that people were able to think more laterally and quickly after a snooze and that if they dreamed the ability was even more enhanced. The scientists believe that "incubating" a problem often leads to a solution but that the effect was increased when people entered a phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM). They believe that REM- which occurs most predominantly just before we awake – helps the brain make connections between unrelated subjects. REM sleep they concluded was "important for assimilating new information into past experience" to come up with solutions to creative problems. The... Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267779/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 05:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264223/posts Teenagers whose parents have a history of depression are at particularly high risk of becoming depressed themselves. Now, a large clinical trial has found that a group cognitive behavioral program that teaches coping and problem-solving skills to such high-risk teenagers can reduce the risk. But, the study also found, the success rate of the prevention program varied greatly depending on the mental health status of the teenagers’ parents at the time they began intervention. The program was much more effective than standard care if the parents were also not depressed when the intervention began. The study was published in this... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264223/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:20:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258801/posts Neil Whitehead, Ph.D. Twin studies are favorites of mine because of the potential light they throw on the origins of same-sex attractions (SSA). The latest one (Santtila et al., 2008) is three times larger than any previous study - in fact, larger than all the rest put together.Does this latest study teach us something new? Quick answer: No. It confirms the best recent studies, which tell us that genetic factors are minor; non-genetic factors are major.The paper's title is "Potential for Homosexual Response is Prevalent and Genetic." This implies to the average reader that homosexuality is sometimes hidden, but commonly... http://www.narth.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258801/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 03:24:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256923/posts How should the Catholic community respond to men and women who think that a person's sex change operation would solve their problem? Catholic teaching in this area is clear. It is impossible to "change" a person's sex. Hormone treatments, cosmetic surgery and surgery to mutilate the sex organs do not change a person' sex. Confusion in this area has come about because people tend to defer to scientists, particularly in areas where their personal experience is limited. Therefore, when doctors, including those from the prestigious Johns Hopkins, have promoted "sex change" operations for physically normal men who believed they were... http://www.narth.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256923/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 16:44:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256555/posts As transgender activists protested outside the American Psychiatric Association (APA) meeting, speakers at the meeting were presenting on the same topic: gender identity disorder (GID). Some of their words would add clinical weight to the political slogans. Some of the speakers are activists themselves, including Rebecca Allison, MD, cardiologist who is transgender, widely published author Sarah Hoffman, whose son is gender variant, and Hewlett-Packard engineer Kelley Winters, PhD, founder of GID Reform Advocates. Winters1 has called on the APA to use the DSM-V revision to affirm that “in the absence of dysphoria, gender identity and expression that vary from assigned... http://www.psychiatrictimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256555/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 21:17:14 GMT