American Psychiatric Association

The study presented at APA was in response to emergency department overcrowding.

Tele-psychiatry is a good way to provide psychotherapy to patients with HIV/AIDS.

Study examined the impact of incidents of adversity experienced in childhood.

Autism inked to maternal lifestyle, especially dietary factors impacting glucose.

Cognitive behavior therapy is effective when delivered online.

Delirium-catatonia has been successfully treated with NMDA antagonists.

Mortality from serious mental illness is associated with metabolic disorder.

Study finds associations between psychiatric length of stay and readmission.

Cyberbullying exacerbates existing mental health conditions among adolescents.

Adolescents exposed to disasters had higher levels of emotional trauma.

When it comes to funding, research, and preventing illness mental health and physical health tend be seen as separate arenas.The CDC's top doc Tom Frieden vowed to change that.

As with many psychiatric conditions suicide is a concern for patients with borderline personality disorder. What doctors can do to prevent their patients from this can make the difference between life and death.

For people who may not know what borderline personality disorder is or have questions about what can be done to help these patients a new effort is being made to raise awareness about this difficult condition.

Under existing federal law, there is no legal way the feds can regulate marijuana sales--or let the states do it. That could have dire consequences, a legal expert tells the APA.

The US Marine Corp's top officer, Commandant Gen. Robert Neller asked members of the American Psychiatrist Association for insights and help in halting suicides among corps members.

The Nazi criminals' crimes against humanity continue to stun psychiatrists. Was there a neurological defect involved?

Electroconvulsive therapy could be an effective tool in reducing veterans' severe depression and suicides, a panel said. Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Gov. Michael Dukakis and an advocate for ECT, was a panelist,

Talking about mental health conditions may be easier than it was a few years ago but the stigma still exists in many parts of the population. The National Alliance on Mental Illness is working to overcome that issue on a variety of fronts.

With a wide range of mental health issues needing advancements in treatment there is constant work being done to find new medications that can help the various patient populations.

Allergan has made a name for itself in the treatment of many neurological and mental health conditions and continues to grow its portfolio. One of its newest offerings is cariprazine which they hope will be a powerful tool in the antipsychotic area.

Can any outpatient mental health program prevent all suicides in the patients it serves? An Arizona team reports success in a 90-day study.

What can a successful partnership at home mean for preventing alcohol abuse? According to one study that balance can mean the added ability to prevent a condition which can otherwise have a dramatic affect on their lives.

When wounded service members come home from war they have many areas of care that need to be addressed. Studies have shown that sexual health is an important part of the overall treatment picture.

After warmly welcoming its members to her home town, Atlanta, GA, former First Lady Rosalyn Carter brought the American Psychiatric Society up to date on her foundation's mental health advocacy successes.

Modern medicine focuses too much on extending life and too little on making sure that's the kind of life patients want. Using conversational skills like those of psychiatrists, that can change for the better.

French researchers examined several factors that could contribute to an association between antiepileptic drug use and risk of suicide attempt.

Do patients diagnosed with anxiety disorder experience a greater burden of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hyperlipidemia?

Although Lyme disease typically impacts the skin, joints, and heart, it can also cause a variety of neurologic and psychiatric complications for which there are no current treatment guidelines.

Veterans with PTSD did better when they adopted dogs, a Texas study found.

Until recently anorexia nervosa was thought to be a problem for females only. That thinking has changed and specialists are now looking at ways to treat eating disorders in adolescent boys and men.