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NAM offers recommendations to fight clinician burnout
A National Academy of Medicine report provides a roadmap for both broad and targeted efforts to address clinician burnout.
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Clinical interventions for global drug use need updating
Illicit drug use patterns around the world are changing rapidly, but interventions aimed at reducing harm are not keeping up with evidence.
Conference Coverage
Food addiction is pervasive among psychiatric patients
COPENHAGEN – Food addiction may be a key link between psychiatric disease, obesity, and reduced life expectancy.
Commentary
Will changing the names of psychiatric medications lead to better treatment?
Dr. Robert T. London wonders whether the new Neuroscience-based Nomenclature Project will be good for patient care.
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Drug crisis continues to evolve beyond opioids
Primary care physicians “are well intentioned but underprepared and may miss some of the drug misuse risks affecting their patients,” says the...
Conference Coverage
Certain diabetes drugs may thwart dementia
COPENHAGEN – Intriguing findings from a Danish national registry study.
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Couples-based cognitive-behavioral therapy curbs postpartum depression
Women in a couples-based cognitive-behavioral therapy program had reduced postnatal depression, compared with those in a women-only program or...
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Yale-Brown Obsessive Scale shows value for assessing binge eating patients
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Robot-assisted, gamelike tool effective for classifying ADHD
The robot “can reliably determine the three key elements of ADHD diagnosis: hyperactivity, inattentive behavior, and working memory.”
Commentary
Psychodiagnostic testing services: The elusive quest for clinicians
Imagine the clinical care consequences if patients seen in specialty or primary care practices did not have ready access to laboratory, other...
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High burden of mental health symptoms in teens with insomnia
Among youth seen at a sleep clinic for insomnia, most had a previous mental health diagnosis and evidence of current symptoms