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FDA Requires New Label Warning of Weight Loss Risk in Pediatric Patients Taking Extended-Release Stimulants for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE The FDA will update ADHD medication labels, warning of weight loss risks in children under 6, urging careful monitoring by health care professionals. Healthcare professionals should monitor weight and growth in young patients on these medications and consider alternative treatments if adverse effects occur.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

If one wishes to understand an idea such as neuroplasticity, or the logistics of synaptic transmission, or the ramifications of an event like enzyme inhibition or competitive receptor binding, it helps to explain in concrete terms the jobs of key players in a given system. First, let’s differentiate conceptual from sheer factual content.

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Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community

Mad in America

And yet I choose to become a mental health nurse. I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. I became a mental health nurse at a psychiatric clinic for children and young adults.

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What Is “Care” in a Psychiatric Medical Camp for the Unhoused in India?

Mad in America

O n the footpath, in a group of homeless people, sits a middle-aged saree-clad woman in absolute silence, looking nowhere. She was brought in along with a salwar-kameez wearing middle-aged woman. When asked her age, Lata said that she was 3 years old. and then recorded her age as 40 years.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.

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Schizoaffective Disorder: Understanding the Incidence, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Now Psych

per cent of the population have schizoaffective disorder: its a lot less common than either major depression or bipolar disorder. In about 30 per cent of cases, onset occurs between the ages of 25 and 35, and it is more common in women. How is it Diagnosed?

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The Connection Between ‘Bipolar Disorder’ and Migraine: Unraveling the History of a Family Line

Mad in America

W hile researching migraines, I stumbled upon the connection between them and a bipolar diagnosis I received as a young adult. On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. ” His mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.