Psychiatry

How quickly we humans normalize even the most extreme scenario - as long as we see it over and over. By now, it seems perfectly normal for our fringed-draped bus to 4-wheel it over piles of rubble.

This activity discusses the typical signs of early-onset schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

Direct your patients to this site for a reliable review of five types of schizophrenia.

Even the predawn day began a little differently. The shrill distant stadium cheers of hundreds of Haitian roosters sounded oddly synchronized, as though perhaps they were doing the wave.

After six hours of unaccustomed sleep, I awoke like a mad pirate, with one red eye, hair askew, lurching and croaking.

There's something about the constant drone of a generator – the relentless, unremitting growl that hangs in the air. It's like the smell and the dust and the fear of the rainy season, the way it creeps under your skin so quickly, and then sinks so deepely that you're not even aware that you're aware of it. All the time.

Immediately after crossing from the DR into Haiti, you can see the visible downshift into a worse level of poverty.

Airports are bland portals scattered across the world. It's really when you step outside, walking down the cattle-chute ramp that's lined with well-wishers and people holding up hand-written signs - it's as you emerge, blinking into hot haze and the smell of moist, marinating diesel hits you, that's when you know you're somewhere else.

We had no problems, fortunately, getting into the country with all of our medicines.

If you look at the photo of what finally went into my personal bag to Haiti, it's hard to imagine how much thought and fretting and, frankly, geometric calculation was involved.

Over the past month, we've been monitoring reports that are coming back from friends who have been in Haiti providing care to try and get to places away from the hospital and hearing what they have been taking care of.

Doctors are relatively uninformed about healthcare systems, outcomes research or healthcare economics, specifically the costs of care and cost-benefit.

New findings from a 25-year study show that patients with schizophrenia have a mortality risk that is two to three times that of the general population.

Haiti trip, 5 days and counting. The overriding question, for me, has become, just how bad is it?

HCPLive blogger Jill Taylor revisits the Lancet's retraction of the controversial 1998 autism study, and points to some new research in this field.

Our expectations have changed a lot as we continue to see, every day, hundreds of tweets about current conditions.

What's been really important is for us to connect with the volunteers who've just returned from Haiti.

Roundup: Neuropathic cancer pain; spinal/peripheral neuromodulation; comorbid depressive disorder; morphine and prialt IT therapies; spinal cord stimulation.

Two drugs currently on the market may also be beneficial as positron emission tomography radiotracers, which could possibly lead to imaging studies for the early detection of Alzheimer�s disease.

Both the story of getting to Haiti and the story of getting supplies has been incredibly helped by people online, especially on Twitter.

Identifying the needs of the Haitians who were affected by the earthquake, finding a place to stay and work, and getting there would be impossible for us without the help and coordinated efforts of many people.

Witness the outrageous 20-30% administrative overhead of medical insurance companies....That includes a covert and obnoxious 'cost-savings-is-more-important-than-patient-care' reward system.

The international community of epilepsy specialists is providing financial support and specialized medical equipment contributed by its manufacturer to help re-establish services to epilepsy patients in Haiti halted by the devastating earthquake.

10 days and counting to Haiti. My mind is whizzing and my days are packed with to-do lists that overflow into the next day. I keep trying to project myself into that moment when I return, and stare at my desk and try to figure out where I was and what I was doing before I left. It seems impossible to emotionally transport myself from these moments now, to there, and, then back.

Although the symptoms of schizophrenia often do not appear until early adulthood, new research may provide insight into the development of the disease, which may occur as early as in the womb.

A debate over whether the use of prescription opioids is really the most effective method of pain control.

When the earthquake in Haiti happened, my wife and I were at a musical, and I got an iPhone update saying "massive earthquake in Haiti." I went home and started researching and found out just how really terrible the earthquake was. I called up a friend who led a mission trip to Katrina and one following the San Diego wildfires.

Is it just me, or is everyone else out there dying to get their hands on an iPad?

When our home state of New Jersey became the 14th state in the nation to legalize medical marijuana, OBTN decided to take a closer look at the herbal remedy. With help from oncologists on our advisory board, we sought to filter through the smoke and examine the realities of medical marijuana.

USA Today has published an interesting opinion piece by Kevin Pho, MD, encouraging physicians to embrace social networking tools as a way to interact with patients. For me, the comments on the article were as interesting as the article itself.