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Psychiatry and Mental Health News

Methamphetamine Abuse May Raise Risk for Parkinson's Disease - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
A preliminary study suggests greater than 2-fold increased risk in regular users; researchers caution more study is needed.
Medscape Medical News

FDA Approves Sublingual Film Formulation of Buprenorphine/Naloxone - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
Previously only available in sublingual tablet form, buprenorphine/naloxone in the form of a sublingual film will become available in starting in October 2010.
Medscape Medical News

Outpatient Psychotherapy "Not Keeping Pace" With Increasing Use of Psychotropics - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
A new study reports that outpatient psychotherapy use by the general population remains stable, but its use in mental care centers is significantly less than psychotropics.
Medscape Medical News

Antidepressants and Improved Cognitive Function After Stroke - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
In this Medscape Neurology Minute, Dr. Jacobs discusses the effects of escitalopram on cognitive outcome for patients who have a stroke.
Medscape Neurology & Neurosurgery

A Rich Cognitive Life "Squares the Curve" of Decline Leading to Dementia - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
A new study suggests stimulating mental activity compresses the course of cognitive decline in older people by slowing it before onset of dementia but producing a more precipitous drop afterward.
Medscape Medical News

A New Diagnostic Entity in DSM-5? - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
Drs. Christoph Correll and Barbara Cornblatt discuss whether attenuated psychotic symptoms syndrome (aka psychosis risk syndrome) should be included in the DSM-5.
Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health

Should Neurologists Manage Psychiatric Symptoms? - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
Dr. Andrew Wilner delineates the respective roles of neurologists and psychiatrists in managing diseases of the brain and nervous system.
Medscape Neurology & Neurosurgery

Metaphors in our Mouths: The Silencing of the Psychiatric Patient - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
Apart from using their medical knowledge, what do psychiatrists draw upon to both diagnose and treat their patients?
The Hastings Center Report

How Often Do Antidepressants Make People Suicidal? - Fri, 3 Sep 2010
Antidepressants rarely trigger suicidal thoughts or behaviors, suggests a large study of patients in European psychiatric hospitals.
Reuters Health Information

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Helpful in Parkinsonian Depression - Thu, 2 Sep 2010
Multiple TMS treatments were shown to ease depression and possibly improve cognition and motor symptoms.
Medscape Medical News