Archive for 'Discoveries and Innovations'
Thinking Outside a Less Intact Box
Posted on01. Jun, 2010 by admin.
Thalamic Dopamine D2 Receptor Densities Are Negatively Related to Psychometric Creativity in Healthy Individuals Several lines of evidence support that dopaminergic neurotransmission plays a role in creative thought and behavior. Here, we investigated the relationship between creative ability and dopamine D2 receptor expression in healthy individuals, with a focus on regions where aberrations in dopaminergic [...]
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Psychiatric Morbidity, Violent Crime, and Suicide Among Children and Adolescents Exposed to Parental Death
Posted on13. May, 2010 by admin.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Accepted 22 January 2010. published online 01 April 2010. This retrospective cohort study examined the risk for suicide, psychiatric hospitalization, and violent criminal convictions among offspring of parents who died from suicide, accidents, and other causes. Population-based data from multiple Swedish national registers were linked [...]
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Is Your Doctor Using a Checklist?
Posted on09. Apr, 2010 by admin.
By Lloyd I Sederer, MD, OMH Medical Director; with Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, Director, NYS Psychiatric Institute The scientific knowledge base and practice of medicine has expanded exponentially as scientists have plumbed the human body and mind to reveal its genetic, molecular, anatomic, physiological and psychological mysteries and developed ever-more sophisticated means to diagnose disease, [...]
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Legal Herbal Products Laced With Designer Drugs: Not Your Father’s Marijuana
Posted on24. Mar, 2010 by admin.
By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD March 5, 2010 – K2, Spice Gold, and dozens of other currently legal “herbal incense” products are spiked with powerful designer drugs– and they don’t show up in drug tests. As early as 2004, this type of product began appearing for sale on [...]
