Psychiatry

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Study results suggest that rhytidectomy procedures don’t necessarily lead to increased self-esteem for patients.

Ketamine, an anesthetic drug that is also being used for patients with treatment-resistant depression, may hold promise for refractory status epilepticus.

Genetic testing is increasingly used in studying epilepsy, but few studies have looked at how patients and their families feel about getting tested from a religious standpoint.

With the amount of information we are hit with day in and day out, our minds need a way of quickly triaging it. This is what stereotyping does. But let's not confuse stereotyping with prejudice. The latter is negative and the former doesn't have to be.

Depression affects 20-40 percent of heart failure patients and is often linked to loss of motivation/ interest/confidence, lower quality of life, sleep disturbances, and changes in appetite with related weight changes.

Depression may be a very early symptom of Parkinson's disease, or a risk factor for the disease.

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have called for the abandonment of standard approaches for investigating the risk of violence among psychiatric patients and prisoners in all future studies due to findings that show these approaches to be inaccurate.

Study results indicate that parental death during childhood appears to increase long-term risk of suicide among that parent's children, regardless of the parent's cause of death.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune system and has the power to cause additional conditions – including neurocognitive disorders.

Empathy can be an effective tool for reducing pain, according to results from a placebo analgesia study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

The connection between low back pain and depression has remained tenuous at best, but a new analysis has tied the two together.

Neuropathic pain may be reduced when patients take antidepressants that alter a brain pathway, according to a recent study.

I'm always fascinated by the Medscape physician reports every year and seeing how unhappy physicians are. How burnt out they are. How dissatisfied with their careers they are.

Researchers appear to have identified a specific molecule that controls morphine receptor signaling in a small group of brain cells. The particular regulator of G protein signaling protein is called RGS7 and has been identified as a novel regulator of the μ-opioid receptor, which morphine acts upon to mediate its euphoric and analgesic effects.

Study results indicate that adding aripiprazole to the treatment of adults aged 60 and older who do not achieve remission from depression with a first-line antidepressant appears to effectively achieve and sustain remission.

Eduardo D. Rodriguez, MD, DDS, Plastic Surgeon at NYU Langone Medical Center, and his team recently successfully completed a groundbreaking and complex face transplant.

Depression over long periods of time may double the risk of stroke in adults, according to a study that assessed the health information of more than 16,000 adults over 50 years of age in order to determine if there is a link between stroke and depressive symptoms.

Researchers report that in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), greater positive mood throughout daily life was linked to less pain and fewer RA-related restrictions, while negative mood was linked to an increase in RA-related restrictions.

Since the discovery that the relative length of the index and ring fingers may reflect fetal testosterone exposure, researchers have spent a lot of time trying to find correlations between digit ratios and medical outcomes, questionnaire answers, and a host of other things.

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has released new evidence-based recommendations on the use of prescription medications for the treatment of opioid addiction.

A recent study compared borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder in order to evaluate and compare the levels of psychosocial morbidity in patients with these disorders.

A program that integrated addiction treatment into primary care for patients with, or at risk for, HIV appears to successfully engage and treat patients with substance dependence. Developed by researchers at Boston Medical Center, the program was shown to reduce substance dependence and encourage engagement in treatment.

Sleep apnea and depression are both serious conditions patients deal with on a daily basis. A recent study looked at a possible connection between the two and how doctors can better treat these patients.

A study in BMC Psychiatry is among the first to report a relationship between childhood abuse, personality, adulthood life stresses, and the severity of depression.

A review in the British Journal of Pain examined some recent research testing the effectiveness of CBT in treating chronic headache and migraine.

A New Zealand study announced in Trials will examine whether the antidepressant nortriptyline can safely and effectively treat knee osteoarthritis. The medication is inexpensive and readily available, and it is well-tolerated in patients treated for depression.

Study results suggest that screening for metabolic syndrome among patients taking antipsychotic medications occurs far less frequently than recommended by the guidelines.

Data from the HUNT studies suggest there may be a link between non-migrainous headache and dementia.

Researchers say determining which patients will respond best to major depressive disorder drug therapies may be possible using a 24-hour wristband monitor.