Is Your Doctor Using a Checklist?
Posted on 09. 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, treat [...]
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Legal Herbal Products Laced With Designer Drugs: Not Your Father’s Marijuana
Posted on 24. 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 the Internet [...]
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A Systemic Look At Schizophrenia
Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by admin.
FROM Chemical & Engineering News
Serving the chemical, life sciences and laboratory worlds January 18, 2010
Background
Because schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder, its physical manifestations must all be in the brain, right? Maybe not. Proteomic studies using cells from other parts of the body are showing that there might be a systemic aspect of the disorder. The [...]
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A Prospective Study of the Impact of Smoking on Outcomes in Bipolar and Schizoaffective Disorder
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by admin.
Abstract from Clinical Psychiatry
Background
The impact of tobacco smoking on mental health outcomes was investigated in a 24-month, naturalistic, longitudinal study of 240 people with bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder.
Participants were interviewed and data recorded by trained study clinicians at 9 interviews during the study period. Smoking status was determined by self-report. Nicotine dependence was not [...]
