Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Schools encouraged to be part of major wellbeing survey for 9-18 year olds British and Japanese young people make mental health recommendations for public health emergencies BMI, blood pressure and physical activity levels in childhood linked to brain differences Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study Shaping the (..)

Genetics and mental health

ADDitude

JUNE 10, 2025

1 The systematic review, led by a team of researchers from King’s College London , found no significant increase in ADHD prevalence rates among children and adults from 2020 to 2024 compared to earlier time periods. after 2020. The worldwide prevalence of ADHD in children before 2020 was between 5 and 7%. in Sweden to 10.5%

Education

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 24, 2025

To Hospitalize or Not? My Patient Overdosed and Now I Feel Guilty… EP: 15. The Many Faces of Catatonia, An Under-Recognized Clinical Syndrome EP: 16. I’m Just So Tired”: Fatigue in a Medically Complicated Patient EP: 17. A Challenge of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seen From the Emergency Medicine Perspective EP: 18.

Sleep and mental health

Dr. Deb

JANUARY 24, 2024

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

Self-awareness

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

In 2021, utilizing the Open Payments database, journalist Robert Whitaker reported : From 2014 to 2020, pharmaceutical companies paid $340 million to U.S. In 2021, utilizing the Open Payments database, journalist Robert Whitaker reported : From 2014 to 2020, pharmaceutical companies paid $340 million to U.S.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Bullet Psych

JULY 28, 2025

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Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2025

I n my article, What I learned as a Moderator for an Antidepressant Taper Support Group, I described working alongside psychiatrists as a licensed clinical social worker in a psychiatric hospital for 18 years and never hearing one word about withdrawal. Then I tried to go off Cymbalta and all hell broke loose. mg to 30 mg. (I

Manufacturing

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Effectiveness of School-Based Mindfulness Training How Mindfulness May Improve Body Satisfaction and Mood Mindfulness for Teachers - "Finding Peace in a Frantic World" Our Mental Wellness Series New book – Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology © 2025 Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX Freedom of Information (..)

Genetics and mental health

Dr. Deb

MAY 15, 2025

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

Self-awareness

Mad in America

JULY 26, 2025

“[La Crosse] Lighthouse is especially up the creek, because La Crosse is on the map nationally for housing issues and there’s no psychiatric hospitals there,” Okoronta said. “So The most recent 2023 nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis puts the cost of a repeal at an estimated $38 billion over 10 years. in the House.

Healthcare

Mad in America

JULY 17, 2025

These efforts extend at least as far back as the middle of the eighteenth century, at Saint Luke’s Hospital in London, and continued with the Salpêtrière in Paris, the Retreat at York, and Charité Hospital in Berlin. In fact, Dr. Insel’s assertion that they had “not moved the needle” was overly optimistic.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 28, 2025

The Asylum opened in 1816 as part of Massachusetts General Hospital, and then was renamed after John McLean, a merchant and benefactor. The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital was placed out of sight across the river from the thriving city of Philadelphia. By 1916 the Asylum had 8,000 public-funded patients. In 1844 Luther V.

Aging and mental health

The New York Times -- Mental Health

JULY 4, 2025

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Hospitality

Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From the Los Angeles Times : “When he came home from the hospital, Marcelus Laidler began to wet the bed. ‘That hospital is like one bad dream after another.’ ’ Hospitals are forbidden under federal law from restraining psychiatric patients except to prevent them from harming themselves or others. .

Hospitality

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This survey collects data on demographics, physical exams, clinical/laboratory tests, imaging results, and nutrition from non-hospitalized participants across the US every two years. The authors examined data collected between 1999 and 2020 from females who were at least 20 years old. between 2017 and 2020.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JULY 9, 2024

I think we can gain some insight from Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality. Derrida begins his study with an etymological analysis of the word “hospitality.” To what extent is psychiatric hospitalization a legitimate hospitality for a sick person? ” There are many interesting implications of this paper.

Hospitality

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis. I took a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome home with me in the taxi I left in that late October day in 2020.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Among them is Paris Hilton, who first told her story in a 2020 documentary and is now lobbying for recently introduced legislation to stop the abuse.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

The first Mental State of the World Reportreleased by The Global Mind Project , which has hosted online surveys examining global trends in mental wellness since 2020, found respondents from South Africa and the UK had the poorest mental health of the 64 countries represented. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

This despite the fact that approximately 80 percent of Swedes distance themselves from religion (Stiernstedt, 2020). For many Swedes, there is a difference between religion and spirituality and how it is expressed in everyday life (Stiernstedt, 2020). Angels were everywhere, beautiful and terrifying” (p. Huguelet et al. Cunningham, P.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A 2016 Cochrane review concluded that there was insufficient evidence that regularly administering surveys contributed to patient improvements in primary care, and an updated review in 2020 concluded similarly that the scores from these surveys needed to be ‘interpreted with caution’.

Healthcare

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

2 These findings echoed the results of an earlier study of people with mood disorders that found having comorbid ADHD was associated with a higher risk of suicide, more frequent hospitalizations, more recurrent episodes, and an earlier onset of depression. American Society of Psychopharmacology Annual Meeting.; May 28-31, 2024. Poster W80.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Credible Mind

MAY 12, 2025

Tuckers team has grown patient portal usage from 24% in 2020 to over 80% in 2025. In the past 5 years, more than 1.3 million patients have utilized these products for over 45 million digital experiences. The CredibleMind platform focuses on prevention and early intervention, aiming to help populations thrive.

Early intervention

My Psychiatry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A recent study shows that due to telemedicines advent, there have been 38% reduced hospital admissions, 31% fewer readmissions, and 63% reduced hospital stays. There was a 50% increase in telehealth visits by the end of the first quarter of 2020. Moreover, patients are also seen to be more engaged in their health care.

Telecommunications

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Sheth, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine and Kelly Rowe Bijanki PhD – Baylor College of Medicine 2024- Friederike Holze, PhD – University Hospital Basel and Peter Gasser, Dr. Med.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. The approach “was as successful as anti-psychotic drug treatment in reducing psychotic symptoms in 6 weeks ”. Other projects would take up its model in the US and elsewhere.

Early intervention

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

MPS Positions : MPS Member, APA Fellow Personal Statement : In clinical practice, I have worked in a number of different settings, including a hospital-based IOP, solo private practice, a managed care organization, and now a school-based OMHC and a non-public level V school serving students with Autism.

Education

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Previous Recipients 2005 – Stephan Heckers, MD – McLean Hospital 2006 – Shitij Kapur, MD, PhD – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007 – Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD – National Institute of Mental Health 2008 – Alexander Neumeister, MD – Yale University and Ramin V.

Hospitality

Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He has served as a liaison to the American Psychological Association (APA) on racial and ethnic minority issues and contributed to the APA’s 2020-2021 Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

I n preparation for a course on clinical community psychology at my home university in Caracas, Venezuela, I stumbled upon a tweet from an anonymous student complaining about a family of pigs that had occupied the psychiatric hospitalization ward where he was supposed to develop his clinical training. His explanation left me distraught.

Hospitality

Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasnt just the breakit was what happened in the hospital.

Hospitality

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse. I lived a normal life without any medication until mid-2020 when I had another episode and was taken to another hospital where I was admitted but ran away the next day to another town because I believed what I needed was prayer.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

The last visit to the ER jolted us to next-level intensity beginning with the ER doctor who traded the Xanax for Klonopin, another benzo, and prescribed Remeron, saying Matt needed to spend the night at the hospital so that they could “make sure he could sleep.” They assured him they would admit him, and I left the hospital.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Federal legislation in 2013 required drug companies to disclose their payments to physicians, resulting in the creation of an Open Payments database; and in 2021, utilizing this database, journalist Robert Whitaker reported : “From 2014 to 2020, pharmaceutical companies paid $340 million to U.S.

Technology

Mad in America

AUGUST 20, 2024

The morning after surgery, two residents came into my room, cursorily examined me, asked me how I was feeling, and then began telling me about medications while I was in the hospital. According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 81,000 people died of overdoses in 2020, most of which were accidental.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

For Watson, the focus on schizophrenia came when his son experienced a crisis at age 15, including a suicide attempt and a runaway scare, along with being diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for six months.

Genetics and mental health