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People in Recovery Key Part of Psychiatry Dept. Staff
People in Recovery Key Part of Psychiatry Dept. Staff


When Traumatic Brain Injury Is Complicated by Personality Disorders
When Traumatic Brain
Injury Is Complicated by Personality Disorders


New APA Web Site Offers Valuable Features, More Options
New APA Web Site Offers Valuable Features, More Options


Why Sports Evoke Passion, For Better or Worse
Why Sports Evoke Passion, For Better or Worse


Reaping the Rewards of Collaboration
Reaping the Rewards of Collaboration


New Data Provide Guidance on Lithium Use in Pregnancy
New Data Provide Guidance on Lithium Use in Pregnancy

DSM Field Trials Providing Ample Critical Data
With the recent completion of the field trials for DSM-5, the manual is on track for publication in May 2013. The third and final round of comments on DSM-5 proposals is now taking place at www.dsm5.org and will last for six weeks.


DSM Field Trials Providing Ample Critical Data

This article is part a series of commentaries by the chair of the DSM-5 Task Force, which is overseeing the manual’s development. The series will continue until the release of DSM-5 in May 2013.

As of this month, the 12-month countdown to the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) officially begins. While the developers of DSM-5 will continue to face several deadlines over the coming year, the progress that has been made since APA’s 2011 annual meeting has been nothing short of remarkable.>>Full story

Effect size provides a way of comparing effectiveness of drugs compared with placebo, but it doesn’t take into account that even a small effect size can be significant depending on an individual patient’s symptoms.

Antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs are as efficacious as drugs used to treat general medical conditions, according to a “panoramic overview” of meta-analyses looking at how psychiatric and general medical drugs compare with placebo.>>Full story


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New Program Helps Reduce Stigma of Getting Care

New Program Helps Reduce Stigma of Getting CareA new guidebook and DVD for African Americans with mental health concerns provides educational material while addressing the still-pervasive stigma that often keeps people from seeking treatment.

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Company Makes Big Investment In Employees’ Mental Health

Company Makes Big Investment In Employees’ Mental Health The Partnership for Workplace Mental Health works with Chesapeake Energy Corporation to educate employees and primary care physicians about the importance of mental health.

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Psychiatry Overcomes Growing Pains at the Top of the World

Psychiatry Overcomes Growing Pains at the Top of the WorldNepal is a destination for mountain climbers and trekkers, but is also home to a mental health system struggling to modernize, says a young psychiatrist.

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Antipsychotics for Elderly Vary in Mortality Risk

Antipsychotics for Elderly Vary in Mortality RiskNursing-home patients are typically excluded from randomized clinical trials, but a cohort study of antipsychotics in this population reveals frightening results.

Social and Work Skills Keys to BPD Recovery

Social and Work Skills Keys to BPD RecoveryStudy results point to the need for a rehabilitation model of treatment, emphasizing vocational training, for borderline personality disorder patients who have achieved long-term remission of symptoms.

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