Anxiety Disorders
Conference Coverage
Parsing the fine points of anxiety
LAS VEGAS – Many trials of anxiety medications are of short duration and therefore lack evidence of long-term improvement, according to Dr. Robert...
Commentary
Medical students and psychiatry
Psychosis can be caused by at least 40 different factors, according to Dr. Carl C. Bell.
Conference Coverage
Use three phases of psychiatric disorders in children to guide treatment
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The treatment of pediatric anxiety, like other psychiatric disorders, becomes more complex over time.
What Your Patients are Hearing
Mental health patients flocking to emergency departments
Some physicians worry that EDs have become the medical refuge for many people with mental illness.
Conference Coverage
Single-dose propranolol tied to ‘selective erasure’ of anxiety disorders
BARCELONA – The evolutionary treatment targets reconsolidation of fear memories.
MDedge Psychcast
Best of Psychopharmacology: Stimulants, ketamine, benzodiazapines
From the Journals
‘Error neuron’ EEG findings could open up future clinical applications
The findings may be applied to conditions in which the important executive function task of error self-monitoring is unbalanced, such as obsessive...
For Residents
A transgender adolescent with chronic pain, depression, and PTSD
X, a 17-year-old Mexican-American transgender male, experienced a traumatic brain injury 4 years ago and subsequently developed PTSD.
From the Journals
Less-distressed patients driving increase in outpatient services
Adults with less-severe distress accounted for most of a recent absolute increase in outpatient mental health services.
From the Journals
Comorbid depression, anxiety linked to doubled risk of diabetes
“This study provides further support for the notion that depression with comorbid anxiety symptoms might represent a group...
From the Journals
Atopic dermatitis hits mental health, quality of life
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