Clinical Psychiatry News articles from April 2005

Clinical Psychiatry News archives from April 2005

Genetics promising for addiction Tx.(News)
April 1, 2005... NEW YORK -- Simple genetic tests aimed at predicting the risk of drug addiction are still a long way off. But the genomics revolution is slowly changing the way addiction medicine physicians look at their patients and the disorders they treat....

Physicians share top billing of prestigious professions.(VITAL SIGNS)
April 1, 2005... Physicians Share Top Billing of Prestigious Professions Note: Based on a survey of 1,012 adults conducted Aug, 10-15, 2004. Source: Harris Interactive

Male adolescents need interventions earlier, data show; Some boys begin molesting by age 13.(News)
April 1, 2005... COLORADO SPRINGS -- Primary prevention of child molestation by male adolescents is likely to require intervention much earlier in life than is now comfortable for many physicians, parents, and attorneys, Gene G. Abel, M.D., said at a meeting of...

Juvenile execution ruling supported by psychiatrists.(News)
April 1, 2005... Psychiatrists across the country, having argued for years that adolescents' brains function differently from those of adults, applauded last month's Supreme Court ruling that abolished juvenile executions. In a 5-4 vote, the court...

U.S. seniors still choosing psychiatry; Matches to PGY-2 residencies on decline.(News)
April 1, 2005... The allure of a developing field and flexible schedule continues to attract U.S. medical school seniors to residencies in psychiatry. The National Resident Matching Program reported that a total of 697 U.S. seniors matched to residency...

Dear healthcare professional.
April 1, 2005... April 2005 My Lilly colleagues and I have heard your recent questions about Zyprexa[R] (olanzapine), as well as your needs when treating your patients who are battling schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Over the last eight years we have...

Important safety information for Zyprexa.
April 1, 2005... The most common treatment-emergent adverse event associated with Zyprexa in placebo-controlled, short-term schizophrenia and bipolar mania trials was somnolence. Other common events were dizziness, weight gain, personality disorder (COSTART...

Guidelines issued for pediatric bipolar treatment.(News)
April 1, 2005... An independent work group of 25 psychiatrists has issued the first new guidelines for the treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder in nearly a decade. The consensus document arose out of a need for updated information first voiced the Child...

Aripiprazole gets broader approval for treatment of bipolar I disorder.(News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... A second atypical antipsychotic, aripiprazole, has been approved for maintenance treatment of bipolar I disorder. The Food and Drug Administration last month added "maintaining efficacy in patients with bipolar I disorder with a recent...

Treating the Hispanic elderly.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... For many years. I have been treating geriatric psychiatric patients. Within the last few months, I have begun assessing patients aged 65 and older who are Hispanic immigrants--mainly Cubans and Nicaraguans--who need psychiatric reports...

Show me the evidence.(LETTERS)
April 1, 2005... The idea that depressed people are particularly likely to kill themselves when they are starting to recover is widely taught and believed, and it does make sense. But I have tried in vain to find some documentation of this phenomenon or the...

Right-Brain damage in head injured.(LETTERS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Dr. Montgomery Brower found that some stalking behavior is associated with what is essentially a one-standard-deviation gap between abnormal performance IQs and normal verbal IQs ("Stalking Suggests Right-Brain Dysfunction," February 2005, p....

Let's listen to our patients.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... Regarding Dr. Patrick Gillette's letter, I, too, am engaged in primary care psychiatry, and I believe all physicians are involved in some form of psychological or psychiatric evaluations with their patients ("Primary Care Psychiatry," Letters,...

Pain relievers.(Opinion)(Cartoon)
April 1, 2005... "The White Sox hate me, the Twins hate me, the Yankees hate me, the Red Sox hate me, Kansas City hates me, the Mariners hate me, the Orioles hate me, the Rangers hate me..."

The quandary that is called the FDA.(GUEST EDITORIAL)
April 1, 2005... In the wake of the Vioxx scandal, the Food and Drug Administration has become the whipping boy of the press and Congress. A feeding frenzy has erupted, with charges coming from inside and outside the agency. I, too, have been critical of...

Should control children be given a stimulant for an ADHD study at the National Institutes of Health?(PRO & CON)(childhood attention deficit hypertensive disorder)
April 1, 2005... YES The clinical trial that raised this issue was proposed by Judith Rapoport, M.D., chief of child psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health. In that trial, Dr. Rapoport wanted to administer dextroamphetamine a single...

Be sure to distinguish CFS from depression.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(chronic fatigue syndrome)
April 1, 2005... For adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), one of the most important factors in their successful treatment and recovery is early recognition of the illness. CFS is most easily recognized in adolescents. The condition usually...

Conquering OCD.(FINK! STILL AT LARGE)(obsessive-compulsive disorder)
April 1, 2005... The USA Network series called "Monk" showcases the investigative talents of Adrian Monk, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes whose obsessive-compulsive disorder becomes more pronounced after the murder of his wife. The character's psychiatrist has...

Trauma and transformation.(REEL LIFE)
April 1, 2005... Discussions of the lasting effects of trauma tend to emphasize the morbid psychological sequelae that may follow exposure to life-threatening or otherwise catastrophic events that are beyond the pale of everyday experience. We refer to these...

Time response of antidepressants.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)
April 1, 2005... There appears to be relatively little delay before a true antidepressant effect takes hold, despite the widespread belief that it takes several weeks to work, according to a study by Michael A. Posternak, M.D., and Mark Zimmerman, M.D., of...

Escitalopram eases GAD.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(generalized anxiety disorder)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Escitalopram is an effective and well-tolerated option for patients with generalized anxiety disorder, reported Siegfried Kasper, M.D., of the University of Vienna, and associates. In a 12-week double-blind trial, 145 patients randomized to...

PTSD in African Americans.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(posttraumatic stress disorder)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Despite high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder and related traumatic disorders in inner-city African American communities, most affected patients are not being diagnosed and treated, said Ann C. Schwartz, M.D., of the Emory University...

Depression in caregivers.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Personality characteristics can affect the risk for depressive symptoms in spouses of patients with lung cancer, said Youngmee Kim, Ph.D., of the Behavioral Research Center, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, and associates. They surveyed...

Metabolic risks of atypicals dissected.(Adult Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... SAN DIEGO -- All atypical antipsychotics carry the same risks for the development of diabetes, according to the Food and Drug Administration, but some psychiatrists and endocrinologists have a more nuanced view. Everyone agrees that some...

Effect of zolpidem on driving ability.(EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHIATRIC MEDICINE)
April 1, 2005... The Problem You step into an established practice. Some patients are prescribed zolpidem (Ambien) nightly, and many have used it in this manner for months. You are concerned about your patients' driving safety since the manufacturer...

SSRI is good adjunct in treating OCD.(Adult Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... STOCKHOLM -- Mirtazapine appears to hasten the beneficial effects of citalopram in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder while lessening some of the side effects associated with citalopram monotherapy. The reduction in side...

Bipolar II treatment requires finesse, flexibility.(PRACTICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY)
April 1, 2005... Bipolar II disorder gets less respect than it deserves. Many think that reported lifetime prevalence rates of 0.5%-1% are overly conservative, since some studies have found that more than one-third of patients treated for a major depressive...

Dissociative symptoms may play a substantial role in PTSD.(Adult Psychiatry)(Posttraumatic stress disorder)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- Posttraumatic stress disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder, but data increasingly suggest that it has an important dissociative element, John J. Arnold, Ph.D., said at the annual conference of the International Society...

The art of Anthony Newton.(VISIONARY ART)
April 1, 2005... Anthony Newton divides his time between working part time in a music studio and painting in his own studio. "Usually, I have a sketch on a small piece of paper, and I take it to the canvas, and then I sketch it out on the canvas or I paint...

Syphilis rising in men who have sex with men.(Adult Psychiatry)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... WASHINGTON -- The overall incidence of syphilis has been dropping in the United States since the mid 1990s, but a syphilis epidemic is raging among men who have sex with men. Several factors appear to be driving this epidemic, the most...

Screen ADHD patients for problems with sleep: clonidine, antihistamines prescribed most often by child and adolescent psychiatrists for insomnia.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)(attention deficit hypertensivity disorder)
April 1, 2005... NEW YORK -- Insomnia is a real and pressing concern for children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and their families, Judith A. Owens, M.D., said at a psychopharmacology update sponsored by the American Academy of Child and...

Methylphenidate appears safe in preschoolers.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... WASHINGTON -- Methylphenidate appears to be effective and safe for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in preschool-age children, according to preliminary data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of...

Romantic stress tied to depression in sensitive girls.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... BALTIMORE -- Highly sensitive teenage girls are more likely to develop depression in response to romantic stress, Shannon E. Daley, Ph.D., said at a meeting sponsored by the Society for Research on Adolescence. In this longitudinal study,...

Depression treatment fraught with challenges: factor in safety concerns of parents; monitor patients closely during initial phase of treatment.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... NEW YORK -- Now that all antidepressants carry a black box warning regarding pediatric suicidality, physicians who treat children and adolescents with depression need to institute closer monitoring and pay careful attention to informed consent....

Suicide attempt associated with risk of first seizure.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- Suicide attempt is associated with a fourfold increase in the risk of developing a first unprovoked seizure in adults and children older than 3 years, Dale Hesdorffer, Ph.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy...

Seizure control stems other problems.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Controlling seizures often lessens behavioral and neuropsychological problems that are ubiquitous in children with refractory epilepsy, said Marc Boel, M.D., of University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium. Among 573 such children...

Family structure, affective disorders.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The makeup of the family in which a child lives and stressful life events are associated with affective disorders at baseline and follow-up, reported Steven P. Cuffe, M.D., of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and his colleagues. ...

Improve working memory in ADHD.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(attention deficit hypertensive disorders)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Computerized, systematic practice of working memory tasks improved working memory in a study of 53 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, said Torkel Klingberg, M.D., of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (J. Am. Acad. Child...

Predictors of marijuana use.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The presence of three factors--delinquency, school problems, and use of other substances by self or peers--significantly increased the risk of experimental and regular marijuana use in adolescents, reported Marianne B.M. van den Bree, Ph.D., of...

Medical and psychiatric comorbidity.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Coexisting medical illness appeared in 29,535 of 32,214 children aged 6-12 years who were diagnosed with at least one psychiatric disorder, reported Donald W. Spady, M.D., of the University of Alberta, Canada, and his associates. Children...

Latinas and eating disorders.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Latina adolescents, regardless of their country of origin, are at risk for developing anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa symptoms, reported Teresa Granillo and her associates at the University of Arizona, Tucson. For the study, Ms....

Straight talk can head off teen binge drinking.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... MIAMI BEACH -- Physicians can help teenagers who binge drink by asking about alcohol consumption, presenting the facts, and not giving lectures, Lorena M. Siqueira, M.D., said at a pediatric update sponsored by Miami Children's Hospital. ...

PsychEd poll.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In a recent poll of 495 mental health professionals, nearly 56% of respondents reported that they treated less than 10% of their bipolar patients with monotherapy. What percentage of your bipolar patients is on monotherapy? 1. Less...

The waking dream: exploring the similarities between schizophrenia and dreams.(Second Messenger)
April 1, 2005... Issue Some symptoms of schizophrenia and dreaming share many similarities Actions To consider the neurobiological evidence that supports a connection between psychosis and dreaming Benefits Understanding the relationship between...

The growing hippocampus: antidepressant therapy may enhance hippocampal neurogenesis.(Broca's Area)
April 1, 2005... Many studies and most researchers agree that stress and depression are associated with hippocampal atrophy. (1-5) Such reduction in brain volume might contribute to cognitive impairments that are often associated with these disorders as well as...

2005 NEI Global Psychopharmacology Congress.(Clinical Commissures)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... NEI held its second annual Global Psychopharmacology Congress on February 17-20, 2005, in San Diego, California. Following the success of its inaugural conference in 2004, the 2005 Congress offered a wide range of topics and activities related...

NEI educational activities.(Upcoming Events)
April 1, 2005... NEI offers several educational activities that correspond to the information presented at our Academies and Congress. Our educational activities include enduring materials such as interactive CD-ROMs, audio CDs, games, and many more. Our...

NEI Psychopharmacology Academy: often imitated, never duplicated--the original academy series.(Upcoming Events)
April 1, 2005... The Psychopharmacology Academy is a two-day symposium that is held in different locations throughout the year. Upcoming Psychopharmacology Academies: April 2-3, 2005 Chicago, IL April 16-17, 2005 Memphis, TN April 30-May...

What people are saying about NEI.
April 1, 2005... "I continue to think about the weekend and how truly spectacular the seminar turned out to be. It was, without exception, the very best, most well produced, educational event I have ever attended in my entire life ... I consider what NEI is...

Watch for neuropsychiatric disorders at diabetes Dx: retrospective study of 237 children, adolescents with type 2 diabetes finds depression is top diagnosis.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... ORLANDO, FLA. -- Nearly 20% of children and adolescents have a neuropsychiatric diagnosis at the time they are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, according to a retrospective study presented at the annual scientific sessions of the American...

Children of obese mothers prone to obesity by age 6 years.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... By the time children of overweight mothers reach 6 years of age, they are 15 times more likely to be obese, compared with children of lean mothers, results from a novel study suggest. "These are kids at extraordinary risk for developing...

Big jump in overweight children.(DATA WATCH)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Big Jump in Overweight Children Note: Data for children aged 6-11 years, based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atypicals may mean metabolic changes for youth.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... BERLIN -- The most common second-generation antipsychotics prescribed to young people with various psychotic, mood, and behavioral disorders adversely affect all components of body composition and lead to dyslipidemia in this patient...

Atypical antipsychotics show promise for bipolar children.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... STOCKHOLM -- Atypical antipsychotics appear to be a good choice for treating children with bipolar disorder, and they also show promise for treating psychotic symptoms in these patients. Joseph Biederman, M.D., reported in a poster session at...

Metabolite levels reveal autistic brain structure: data contradict the idea that people with autism experience dense neuronal packing early in life.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... IRVINE, CALIF. -- Children with autism and pervasive developmental disorder show abnormalities in brain structure and chemistry early in their clinical course. Seth Friedman, Ph.D., said at the annual conference of the EEG and Clinical...

Symptomatic generalized epilepsy deters development.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- The long-term social outcome for children with symptomatic generalized epilepsy is usually disappointing, with only 6% having normal intelligence and becoming seizure-free off medication and financially and socially independent....

Maternal issues may predispose desire for gender change in boys.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO -- Boys who say they want to become girls may be trying to win a lost mother's love rather than expressing a true desire to switch gender, Judith Fingert Chused, M.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic...

Alzheimer's study will target plaque formation.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... A new treatment in the works for Alzheimer's disease is designed to act at the cellular level to reverse plaque formation and prevent development of further disease. Prana Biotechnology Ltd. has received approval from the Medicines and...

Memantine may reduce agitation in AD patients: patients taking the drug showed improvements on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory agitation domain.(Geriatric Psychiatry)(Alzheimer's disease)
April 1, 2005... SAN DIEGO -- Use of memantine in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease significantly reduced their behavioral disturbances and psychiatric symptoms, compared with placebo, Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., reported in a poster session...

Hallucinations may predict impairment in Alzheimer's.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... LAS VEGAS -- Hallucinations are a significant predictor of functional impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease, Wing Yee Mok, M.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society. In a retrospective analysis of 100...

Medicare to cover PET scans in cases where dementia diagnosis is unclear.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... Medicare is extending coverage of PET scans to include patients who meet the criteria for both frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease but for whom the diagnosis remains unclear. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Evidence backs two drugs for epilepsy in elderly.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... BRECKENRIDGE, COLO. -- Lamotrigine and gabapentin are the newly crowned, evidence-based first-line treatments for new-onset epilepsy arising in the elderly, according to the findings of a major new Veterans Affairs trial. Both drugs...

New-onset epilepsy mimics dementia in the elderly.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... BOSTON -- Epilepsy in the elderly often presents as complex partial seizures that can resemble sudden-onset dementia, A. James Rowan, M.D., said at a meeting on epilepsy in the elderly sponsored by Boston University. The incidence of...

Symptom scale proves superior in finding depression, anxiety.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... SAN DIEGO -- A multisymptom scale identified elderly primary care patients with depression and anxiety symptoms who were missed by the standard 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale, results from a large pilot study have found. The finding...

Rivastigmine may delay dementia in Parkinson's.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... The cholinesterase inhibitor rivastigmine transiently halted cognitive deterioration associated with Parkinson's disease but fell short of actually modifying the course of either Parkinsonism or related dementia, according to the results of a...

Dual Abuse concerns may hinder buprenorphine Tx.(Addiction Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... CHICAGO -- The fear that opioid-addicted patients may co-use other substances while receiving buprenorphine therapy may be keeping some physicians who are authorized to prescribe the drug for opioid addiction from setting up office-based...

Legal drugs largely behind Utah's rise in drug-poisoning deaths.(Addiction Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... A striking rise in drug poisonings in Utah between 1991 and 2003 was largely attributable to medications that can be prescribed legally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Methadone and other prescription narcotics...

Chemical dissociation may serve as coping tool: survivors of childhood abuse may self-medicate with opioids to attenuate traumatic stress.(Addiction Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- The chemically induced dissociation that can occur with opioid use may affect the development of substance use disorder among victims of childhood abuse and interfere with recovery from the disorder, Eli Somer, Ph.D., said at the...

Delayed smoking cessation improved alcohol treatment.(Addiction Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... SAN JUAN, P.R. -- People in intensive alcohol treatment programs are more abstinent if smoking cessation efforts are delayed by 6 months, according to a study. Smoking is common among people with alcohol dependence, with an estimated...

Pain relievers.(Addiction Psychiatry)(Cartoon)
April 1, 2005... "That was before the carbs caught up with me."

Smoking among physicians is at all-time low.(Addiction Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... ORLANDO, FLA. -- The prevalence of smoking among American primary care physicians has fallen to an all-time low of 2%, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., announced at Wonca 2004, the conference of the World Organization of Family Doctors. "That's...

Perspective.(Community Psychiatry)
April 1, 2005... We live in a society that believes in "better living through chemistry." Fortunately, some rail against the trend of taking a pill for everything that ails us. But in treating mental illness, hard work is critical to the success of psychosocial...

Children of depression: breaking the cycle.(PREVENTION IN ACTION)
April 1, 2005... Childhood depression has grabbed a lot of headlines recently, with major news media devoting ample space to the question, "Why are so many kids depressed, and what are we doing about it?" And few if any of these headlines have been bigger...

Organized acute stroke care flourishes in U.S.: American Stroke Association task force releases recommendations to implement stroke care systems.(Neuropsychiatric Medicine)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- The number of certified stroke centers in the United States continues to rapidly increase, complemented by state mandates that require emergency medical services to take patients with acute strokes to designated stroke centers....

Pituitary dysfunction may occur after brain injury.(Neuropsychiatric Medicine)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- A head injury can cause immediate hypopituitarism that may last for up to 12 months and set the stage for new-onset pituitary deficiencies during that time, researchers said at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society. ...

Attention problems common with sleep apnea and insomnia in adults.(Neuropsychiatric Medicine)
April 1, 2005... SEATTLE -- Many adults who have obstructive sleep apnea or insomnia also have attention-deficit disorder as well as neuromuscular and psychiatric conditions, results from a detailed analysis suggest. "The sleep specialist isn't done when he...

Mutation linked to some cases of Parkinson's: identifying gene raises ethical questions about its use in testing, given the lack of preventive therapy.(Neuropsychiatric Medicine)
April 1, 2005... Screening for a recently identified mutation shown to cause approximately 5%-6% of familial and 1%-2% of apparently sporadic cases of Parkinson's disease will likely become an important component of genetic testing and counseling for this...

New findings improve counseling for epilepsy surgery.(Neuropsychiatric Medicine)
April 1, 2005... BRECKENRIDGE, COLO. -- Recent research has enabled physicians to counsel patients with drug-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy much more effectively about the risks and benefits of resective surgery, Lauren C. Frey, M.D., said at a conference on...

Prophylaxis a must for cluster headache patients.(Pain Medicine)
April 1, 2005... LAS VEGAS -- Every cluster headache patient needs to be on a prophylactic drug, Todd D. Rozen, M.D., said at a symposium sponsored by the American Headache Society. "I tell them, 'I'm not happy, and you shouldn't be happy, until you're...

More data fail to resolve issue of COX-2 effect.(Pain Medicine)
April 1, 2005... Despite widely reported results on the safety of Vioxx and now Celebrex and Bextra, there is still a paucity of information on the true long-term effects these drugs as a class, and all of it will take months--if not years--to sort out. ...

Depression often missed in black heart patients.(Psychosomatic Medicine)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- Underrecognition and undertreatment of clinically significant depression among patients with acute coronary syndrome is common--and strikingly more so among black patients, Alpesh A. Amin, M.D., reported at the annual scientific...

Depression tied to non-GI ills in abdominal pain.(Psychosomatic Medicine)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... PARIS -- Depressed children with persistent abdominal pain were significantly more likely than their nondepressed peers to report additional problems such as dizziness, weakness, and heart palpitations, Cheryl Little, M.D., said in a poster...

The mind and medicine.(THE PSYCHIATRIST'S TOOLBOX)
April 1, 2005... Many primary care physicians offer good psychological advice by telling their patients to relax more, take a vacation, stop worrying so much, get a hobby, or just go see a good movie. Their goal is to get patients to make a lifestyle change...

Psychosocial interventions may benefit heart failure patients.(THE PSYCHIATRIST'S TOOLBOX)
April 1, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- A brief checklist of social and health factors predicts onset of depressive symptoms in heart failure patients, Edward P. Havranek, M.D., said at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association. Given those...