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December 14, 2012

Operation Delirium

Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D.

Joining the long line of examples of concerning human subjects research experiments is a profile in The New Yorker (December 17).…

April 10, 2012

Caplan on Prescription Drug Abuse

Today Art Caplan, in his MSNBC column, discusses the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in this country. But his conclusions would have a chilling effect upon physicians.…

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AJOB Neuroscience: Volume 3 Issue 4 - Oct 2012

The Puzzle of Neuroimaging and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Technology and Nosology in an Evolving Discipline Martha J. Farah & Seth J. Gillihan

News (49)

May 22, 2013 5:18 pm

DSM-V: The Book Stops Here

The D.S.M. gives clinicians a common language to describe and treat mental disorders. But until the underlying biology of those disorders can at last be unlocked, that is about the best we can expect.

May 9, 2013 2:59 pm

Why Psychiatry's Seismic Shift Will Happen Slowly

The DSM is the past and, for the time being, the present…but it won’t be the future. The future it will be either improved or replaced by a more physiologically based set of diagnostic criteria. That may change the whole landscape for diagnosis.

May 6, 2013 9:13 pm

Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say

Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific “lack of validity.”

April 25, 2013 12:55 pm

Nation's drug czar to outline drug policy reform emphasizing public health

President Barack Obama’s new strategy for fighting the nation’s drug problem will include a greater emphasis on using public health tools to battle addiction and diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment instead of prisons.

April 24, 2013 12:48 pm

Health officials reverse policy that allowed for busing mentally ill patients out of state unescorted

Nevada’s health department today reversed its practice of sending patients discharged from state psychiatric hospitals alone on bus trips out of Nevada.

April 22, 2013 12:58 pm

Study: Green Space Means More for Satisfaction Than a Neighborhood's Average Income

How strongly people’s mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens.

April 15, 2013 2:50 pm

Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country

Over the past five years, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America.

March 27, 2013 2:29 pm

The ethics of solitary confinement

This weekend the New York Times reported that on any given day 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement in American detention facilities.  Nearly half are kept isolated for more than 15 days – the point at which experts say they are at risk of severe psychiatric harm.

March 14, 2013 1:05 pm

Should family members watch as their dying loved ones get CPR?

A study published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine found that family members who looked on as doctors performed CPR on their loved ones were far less likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder three months later.

March 5, 2013 1:35 pm

Colo. transgender girl can't use school bathroom (Yahoo)

In first grade, a school allowed the transgendered girl to use the girls’ bathroom but soon told her family that she would have to either use the staff bathroom or the one in the nurse’s office.

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