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Research from Asia is overturning long-held notions about the factors that...
SHANGHAI, CHINA—Mrs. Y’s death would have stumped many experts. A young mother and loyal wife, the rural Chinese woman showed none of the standard risk factors for suicide. She was not apparently...
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Our failed approach to treating schizophrenia
By PAUL STEINBERG Published: December 25, 2012 New York Times TOO many pendulums have swung in the wrong directions in the United States. I am not referring only to the bizarre all-or-nothing rhetoric...
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Wisdom from psychopaths?
Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success, by Kevin Dutton, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC (US),...
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Largest psychiatric genetic study in history shows a common genetic basis...
Structure of the CACNA1C gene product, a calcium channel named Cav1.2, which is one of 4 genes that has now been found to be genetically held in common amongst schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism,...
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Ernest Hartmann on ‘Why do we dream?’
Ernest Hartmann, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Boston, Mass., explains. The questions,...
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Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a...
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The Virtual Therapist
Ellie is a creation of ICT, and could serve as an important diagnostic and therapeutic tool for veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. By Alastair Leithead BBC News, Los Angeles The University...
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7.5% of American schoolchildren take prescription psychiatric medications
The National Center for Health Statistics has found that 7.5 percent of American schoolchildren between the ages of six and 17 had been prescribed and taking pills for emotional or behavioral...
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Using botox to treat depression
Nearly 150 years ago, Charles Darwin recognized that facial expressions not only communicate the emotions we feel but intensify them, by sending cues back to the brain. In the ensuing decades,...
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Study Finds Pedophiles’ Brains Wired to Find Children Attractive
Pedophiles’ brains are “abnormally tuned” to find young children attractive, according to a new study published this week. The research, led by Jorge Ponseti at Germany’s University of Kiel, means...
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Thousands of Toddlers Are Inapprorpiately Medicated for A.D.H.D., Report...
By ALAN SCHWARZ More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder outside established pediatric guidelines, according to data...
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New phone app might be able to predict onset of manic behavior in people in...
by Joe Palca There are smartphone apps for monitoring your diet, your drugs, even your heart. And now a Michigan psychiatrist is developing an app he hopes doctors will someday use to predict when a...
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New research confirms that looking angry gets people to do what you want.
by Amanda L. Chan If you’ve ever gotten the death glare from your parent, child or S.O., you already know the results of this new study to be true. New research in the journal Psychological Science...
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Parkland psych ER is again scene of patient abuse
Parkland Memorial Hospital said the patient-gagging incident in the psychiatric emergency room was discovered on April 8 during a routine review of security video from March 16. Parkland notified the...
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Century-old drug reverses signs of autism in mice
By Elizabeth Norton A single dose of a century-old drug has eliminated autism symptoms in adult mice with an experimental form of the disorder. Originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness,...
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Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,” study finds
Psychedelic mushrooms can do more than make you see the world in kaleidoscope. Research suggests they may have permanent, positive effects on the human brain. In fact, a mind-altering compound found...
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7 Very Bizarre (and Very Rare) Psychotic Hallucinations
brain The many documented cases of strange delusions and neurological syndromes can offer a window into how bizarre the brain can be. It may seem that hallucinations are random images that appear to...
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LSD’s ability to make minds malleable revisited
Could taking LSD help people make peace with their neuroses? Psychiatrists in the 1960s certainly thought so. They carried out many studies looking at the effect of LSD and other psychedelics on...
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Selfies Linked to Narcissism, Psychopathy
Men who post selfies on social media such as Instagram and Facebook have higher than average traits of narcissism and psychopathy, according to a new study from academics at Ohio State University....
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New study shows that use of psychedelic drugs does not increase risk of...
An analysis of data provided by 135,000 randomly selected participants – including 19,000 people who had used drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms – finds that use of psychedelics does not increase...
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