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 [...]
For Immediate Release March 7, 2016. Los Angeles CA Contact: James La Rossa Jr., 310.374.1300 2016 Issues, Set for Index Medicus, are In Press Psychopharmacology Bulletin — reactivated by the National Library of Medicine — has finalized a series of agreements with the largest repositories of acquisitions medical libraries. Bulletin [...]
In the summer of 1997, I was months away from launching the first consumer magazine about mental illness. My company had acquired a state and federal trademark for the title, Mental Fitness (The Science of Mental Wellness). I had done a long interview with the veteran 60 Minutes journalist, Mike [...]
Other than the obvious onset of the mental disorder itself, postpartum depression is one of those illnesses that is hard to predict, and according to published records, may be even harder to insure against. After a government panel recommended that pregnant women be screened for depression, life and disability insurance [...]