My Father's generation so admired the men and women that served in World War II, that when the Korean War raised its ugly head years later, he and my uncle quickly finished college and headed for Korea as Marine Corp. and Army officers. In stark contrast to a professional military [...]
Medworks Media - 2016 MEDWORKS MEDIA June 3, 2016 Los Angeles CA www.medworksmedia.com Psychopharmacology Bulletin DIGITAL ISSN: 2472-2448; PRINT ISSN: 0048-5764 Call For Papers — 2016/2017 New Section on Epigenetics Introduced From: Michael E. Thase, MD, Editor-in-Chief James La Rossa Jr., Editorial Director This is a general [...]
I am a third-generation New Yorker. Until I moved to the minicity of Manhattan Beach, CA., in the south bay of Los Angeles, the only other place I called home was the Trastevere section of Rome — often compared to the closest thing the Italians have to Greenwich Village. I [...]
May 17, 2016. Los Angeles, CA. My head still throbbing this morning from last night’s late arrival from Atlanta, I sought solace in the quietude of the Science Section of The New York Times. I was in Atlanta to cover the yearly convocation of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) , [...]
Sunday, May 15, 2016. APA Meeting, Atlanta GA. Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD, the Leonard M. Miller Professor & Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director, Center on Aging at the University of Miami Health System, addressed areas of future research at the APA convocation today. "Micro RNA is [...]
Saturday, May 14, 2016. APA Meeting, Atlanta GA. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) convocation, which began today, highlighted initial findings in a number of key and unique mental diseases. Adopting a Dog May Help Veterans with PTSD Adopting a pet dog may prove a useful addition to treatment for veterans [...]
The philanthropists, Sanford I. Weill and his wife, Joan, have made the largest donation in the University of California, San Francisco's (UCSF) history, to finance a neuroscience center to provide "research on the brain, which is the most complex part of the human body," and is far behind other areas [...]
For Immediate Release April 13, 2016. Los Angeles CA www.medworksmedia.com Psychopharmacology Bulletin Volume 46, Number 1, 2016, On-Line Now Replica Journal Issue Available for Readers ORIGINAL RESEARCH A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study of Quetiapine-XR Monotherapy or Adjunctive Therapy to Antidepressant in Acute Major Depressive Disorder with Current Generalized [...]
For anyone who has had the great pleasure of reading Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," expect something very special when Dr. Mukherjee's next book, " The Gene: An Intimate History," is published in the Spring. Writing in the March 28, 2016 [...]
In a recent study, researchers looked at the possibility of using nutritional intervention to slow the onset of certain Alzheimer’s symptoms. The study involved a particular nutritional drink called Souvenaid http://www.souvenaid-us.com/, which was given to patients in the pre-dementia (prodromal) stage of Alzheimer’s once a day for a twelve month [...]