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Topographical brain maps are new frontier to catch early schizophrenia
Published July 9, 2009, 4:33 pm, News-Medical-Net
John Csernansky wants to take your measurements. Not the circumference of your chest, waist and hips. No, this doctor wants to stretch a tape measure around your hippocampus, thalamus and prefrontal cortex.
Antipsychotic drugs being dispensed more often: Study
Published July 9, 2009, 12:40 pm, Canada.com
Antipsychotic drugs are increasingly being prescribed to senior citizens to treat symptoms of dementia, despite the risk of serious side-effects and even death that some of them pose, according to a new study.
Map Of Your Brain Could Reveal Early Mental Illness
Published July 9, 2009, 10:12 am, redOrbit
John Csernansky wants to take your measurements. Not the circumference of your chest, waist and hips.
Map of your brain may reveal early mental illness
Published July 9, 2009, 5:44 am, EurekAlert!
( Northwestern University ) Northwestern University researchers are producing topographical maps of people's healthy and schizophrenic brains in an effort to develop the first scientific tool for early and more definite diagnosis of mental disorders such as schizophrenia. The scientists have already found differences in the hippocampus in people who have schizophrenia. Diagnosing the beginning ...
Criticism vs Fact: A Response To A Warning Sign on the Road to DSM-V by Allen Frances, MD
Published July 7, 2009, 1:05 pm, Psychiatric Times
Allen Frances, an old friend, writes critically about the DSM-V project. I will address some key issues where his criticisms do not relate to reality as experienced from within the process.
Female doctor 'overmedicated elderly patients with cocktails of drugs to hasten death'
Published July 7, 2009, 7:54 am, Daily Mail: World News
Female doctor 'overmedicated elderly patients with cocktails of drugs to hasten death'
Report: Medication System Failing Foster Kids
Published July 7, 2009, 7:46 am, CBS4 Miami
The system meant to protect children in foster care failed because doctors and case managers routinely failed to complete treatment plans, failed to share information, or properly document the usage of powerful psychiatric drugs, according to the Department of Children and Families. One of the children that it failed was 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, who hanged himself in April.
Lost in the suburbs' dark shadows
Published July 7, 2009, 4:29 am, Toronto Star
Catherine's eyes well up as she recounts how "horrid" life seemed a few weeks earlier. She had been "bawling uncontrollably."
Elderly patients boost sales of dangerous antipsychotics
Published July 7, 2009, 12:00 am, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Bill Wiggins believes a powerful antipsychotic medication helped save his wife, Kathye.Helen Shields believes one of these drugs helped kill her mother, Helen Marciniszyn.
Delaware settles with Eli Lilly for improperly marketing Zyprexa
Published July 6, 2009, 5:57 am, Cape Gazette
The Delaware Department of Justice announced it has reached a proposed settlement with Eli Lilly and Co. to settle allegations that the company engaged in a marketing campaign that improperly promoted its antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa.
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