Personal Accounts: Reconsidering the Role of a Disaster Psychiatrist
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Dr. Pandya is vice-chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8730 Alden Dr., Room C-301, Los Angeles, ...

John Oldham Is President-Elect, Carol Bernstein Begins APA Presidency
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Members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) elected John Oldham, MD, president-elect of the association. Dr. Oldham is chief of staff at the ...

Good Nutrition an Essential Part of Integrative Psychiatry
EmpowHer (blog)
Dr. Scott Shannon is an integrative child and adolescence psychiatrist who has a passion for healthy nutrition. Dr. Shannon believes that most people are ...

Ongoing anxiety can lead to GAD
Herald Times Reporter
Dr. Geralyn Carducci is a physician, board-certified in psychiatry, who practices at Lakeview Psychological Associates in Manitowoc.

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Connecting dark moods and chocolate
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A professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and former president and psychiatrist-in-chief at McLean Hospital, he was not involved in the study. ...

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CME Outfitters Announces New ADHD neuroscienceCME Snack Series
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While ADHD is the most commonly studied and diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children, as many as 50% of individuals diagnosed in childhood continuing to ...

Leigh Donaldson: Psychiatric drugging of American children is cause for alarm
Press Herald
The age of children being medicated with prescription psychiatric drugs is getting younger and more widespread every year. ...

In The Data Driven Life in today's New York Times Magazine, Gary Wolf writes about people who track their activities in fine detail. Coffee or alcohol consumption, calories, menstrual cycles, ideas, time spent cleaning up after roommates---you name it, it can be tracked, and the online life makes it oh-so-easy. If you've got obsessive compulsive tendencies, this may be heaven, or it may drive you over the edge. And of course, there are some practical applications for psychiatry. Wolf writes:

Jon Cousins is a 54-year-old software entrepreneur and former advertising executive who was given a diagnosis in 2007 of bipolar affective disorder. Cousins built a self-tracking system to help manage his feelings, which he called Moodscope; now used by about 1,000 others, Moodscope automatically sends e-mail with mood-tracking scores to a few select friends. “My life was changed radically,” Cousins told me recently in an e-mail message. “If I got the odd dip, my friends wanted to know why.” Sometimes, after he records a low score, a friend might simply e-mail: “?” Cousins replies, and that act alone makes him feel better. Moodscope is a blended system in which measurement is supplemented by human sympathy. Self-tracking can sometimes appear narcissistic, but it also allows people to connect with one another in new ways. We leave traces of ourselves with our numbers, like insects putting down a trail of pheromones, and in times of crisis, these signals can lead us to others who share our concerns and care enough to help.

The point of the article? Other than a long-winded way of saying, Hey, look what folks are doing! I'm not so sure there was one. And while you're keeping track, Victor took second place in the salsa contest (the dip, not the dance).----- Listen to our latest podcast at mythreeshrinks.com or subscribe to our rss feed. Email us at mythreeshrinks at gmail.

NZ, Australian Psychiatrists Hold Conference
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The Royal Australian and New Zealand Collage of Psychiatrists' Congress runs until 6 May 2010 at SkyCity Convention Centre in Auckland. ...

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Thank Google! For Remembering
Huffington Post (blog)
The panel -- made up of experts in psychiatry, gerontology, genetics, nutrition, drugs, neurology, and oncology -- released its report, ...

Cardiology demand leads to fellowship at UH, Queen's
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
... medical education, including surgical intensive care, neonatology, child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction psychiatry and geriatric medicine. ...

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Doubting Psychiatry
Big Think
"Anatomy of an Epidemic" is the first book to investigate the long-term outcomes of patients treated with psychiatric drugs, and Whitaker finds that, ...

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American Psychological Association Recognizes Mental Health Month With a Slate ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
... Washington, DC -- Walter S. Gilliam, Ph.D., assistant professor, child psychiatry and psychology, Yale University -- Mary Louise Hemmeter, Ph.D., ...
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American Psychological Association Recognizes Mental Health Month With a Slate ...
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Additionally, a Maryland woman will describe her personal battle with mental illness and homelessness. Participants: -- James Bray, Ph.D., past president, ...

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PTSD diagnosus a moving target
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"It's a living construct," says Friedman, a professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and member of the anxiety disorder working group for DSM-V. ...

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'You Don't Know Jack' on HBO
Los Angeles Times
Can a non- psychiatrist determine that a suffering patient who wants to die isn't simply depressed? The reality: Neither the intravenous device nor the ...

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PTSD diagnosis a moving target
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"It's a living construct," says Friedman, a professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and member of the anxiety disorder working group for DSM-V. ...

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In tide of new PTSD cases, fear of growing fraud
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Sparr — former acting chief of psychiatry at the Portland VA Medical Center — conducted a forensic examination of Gray and confirmed the PTSD diagnosis. ...

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Criteria for diagnosis of PTSD changing rapidly
Los Angeles Times
"It's a living construct," says Friedman, a professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and member of the anxiety disorder working group for DSM-V. ...

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Opposing Views
Autism News: Mind Institutes Marjorie Solomon appointed to national autism ...
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Solomon, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the UC Davis School of Medicine, ...
Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D. of Autism Speaks appointed to NIH Interagency Autism ...PhysOrg.com (press release)
Secretary Sebelius Announces New Members of the Interagency Autism ...Earthtimes (press release)
UCD researcher appointed to national autism advisory committeeSacramento Business Journal

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