Johns Hopkins University Mood Disorders Center
Hopkins Psychiatrists Named “Top Therapists” By Washington Magazine
July 30, 2009- Four Johns Hopkins psychiatrists have been named “Top Therapists” in this month’s Washingtonian magazine. The list includes geriatric psychiatrist Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H.; eating disorders psychiatrist Angela S. Guarda, M.D.; general psychiatrist Todd S. Cox, M.D.; and child and adolescent psychiatrist Elizabeth A. Kastelic, M.D.
Before or After Birth, Gene Linked To Mental Health Has Different Effects
Jan. 5, 2010- Scientists have long eyed mutations in a gene known as DISC1 as a possible contributor to schizophrenia and mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder. Now, new research led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that perturbing this gene during prenatal periods, postnatal periods or both may have different effects in mice, leading to separate types of brain alterations and behaviors with resemblance to schizophrenia or mood disorders.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare - Harvard Medical School
Attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings may reduce depression symptoms
Jan. 18, 2010- One of many reasons that attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings helps people with alcohol use disorders stay sober appears to be alleviation of depression. A team of researchers has found that study participants who attended AA meetings more frequently had fewer symptoms of depression - along with less drinking - than did those with less AA participation. The report will appear in the journal Addiction and has been released online.
Words used to describe substance-use patients can alter attitudes, contribute to stigma
Jan. 13, 2010 - Changing the words used to describe someone struggling with alcoholism or drug addiction may significantly alter the attitudes of health care professionals, even those who specialize in addiction treatment. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have found that health professionals' answers to survey questions about a hypothetical patient varied depending on whether he was described as a "substance abuser" or as "having a substance use disorder." Their study will appear in the International Journal of Drug Policy and has been released online.
McLean Hospital, Partners HealthCare - Harvard Medical School
McLean Announces New Treatment for Chronic Depression:
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation provides positive results with few side effects
Belmont, MA- McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, now offers a new, non-invasive treatment for moderate and severe depression called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), the hospital announced today. The procedure is being provided as part of a new Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program (PNP) at McLean that includes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a clinical service offered to hospital patients for decades.
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Depression Center
Nancy Adler, Ph.D., selected as the Marion Spencer Fay Award recipient for 2010
Dr. Adler, Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Health and Community at the University of California- San Francisco, is being honored for her trailblazing leadership in Health Psychology, expanding our understanding of the role of social and behavioral determinants in health and disease, and her pioneering translational research in reproductive health and health disparities.
Lindner Center of HOPE
Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program at Lindner Center of HOPE
The Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program is a comprehensive treatment option for teens age 11-18and is beneficial for parents and families seeking a therapeutic environment for their children struggling with mental health problems. The program operates Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and enrollees attend 5 days per week. The program is customizable – meaning that doctors and therapists will work with families to design the right plan for each individual.
Lindner Center of HOPE Doctors Among Best In Nation: Ranking Places Four Doctors at the Top Locally
Dec 2, 2009– The Frances and Craig Lindner Center of HOPE is pleased to announce the following doctors were ranked among the best doctors in the nation and among the top specialists in the Tri-State as indicated by The Best Doctors in America 2009-2010 database:
University of Colorado Denver Depression Center
CU Depression Center keeps focus on improving treatment, access to care
June 11, 2010 - "When the University of Colorado’s Depression Center opened its doors in 2008, it was only the second of its kind in the country. Less than two years later, the model of a facility devoted exclusively to treating and educating the public about depression has caught on. The center at the Anschutz Medical Campus is one of 16 in the National Network of Depression Centers, a group that includes sites at Harvard College, Columbia University and John Hopkins University."
Experts explain postpartum depression as diagnosis, defense
Dr. Cheryl Chessik, Director of Women's Studies and Treatment at the University of Colorado Denver Depression Center, discusses postpartum depression on 9NEWS.
Antonia Pieracci, PhD Featured in 5280 Magazine
Depression Center psychologist Antonia Pieracci is featured prominently in a 5280 Magazine article on managing stress.
Depression Center, Family Medicine Explore Improving Mental Health Services for Patients
The diagnosis and treatment of depression would seem to fall neatly under the purview of psychologist or psychiatrist. And primary care physicians who see a patient with depression would certainly be expected to make a mental health referral, just as they would with a complicated cardiac case. Yet often they don’t.
University of Louisville Depression Center
Dr. Allan Tasman Speaks About Depression
Apr 21, 2009 - Dr. Allan Tasman, Chair of the UofL Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, speaks at the UofL Depression Center open house. He discusses the devastating effects of depression on individuals and the community and explains the role of the UofL Depression Center to treat people, educate the public and research new treatments for depression.
Stanford University
Psychiatry's bible: Autism, binge-eating updates proposed for 'DSM'
Autism, substance abuse and eating disorders are among the conditions for which the American Psychiatric Association is proposing changes in the fifth edition of its diagnostic bible, posted online today.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, "is a key document," says Stanford University psychiatrist Alan Schatzberg, the psychiatry association's president. "It determines how mental disorders are diagnosed. It also influences research and what is going to be researched."
University of Texas Southwestern
Depression and lack of concentration do not necessarily go together, researchers find
Feb. 10, 2010 – Many clinicians believe that depression goes hand in hand with cognitive difficulties such as memory problems or difficulties concentrating and paying attention, but a recent review of nearly 20 years of literature conducted by researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center has found that depression does not always lead to such impairments.
Weill Cornell Hospital
Weill Cornell Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry Awarded $10 Million Grant
Funding is One of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)'s Largest Grants Given to Study Depression Later in Life
Sept. 24, 2009 -- The Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division announced today it has received the largest grant in its 20-year history. One of a handful awarded nationally, the new $10 million, five-year "Center Grant" from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will enable NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell investigators to advance their pioneering work in understanding the biological, medical, cognitive and psychosocial problems of depressed seniors. The grant is one of the largest ever given by NIMH to study geriatric depression.
Care Management Reduces Depression and Suicidal Thoughts in Older Primary Care Patients
June 23, 2009 -- Depression in older adults too often goes unrecognized and untreated, resulting in untold misery, worsening of medical illness, and early death. A new study has identified one important remedy: Adding a trained depression care manager to primary care practices can increase the number of patients receiving treatment, lead to a higher remission rate of depression, and reduce suicidal thoughts.
Columbia University
Children Labeled "Bipolar" May Get a New Diagnosis
Feb 10, 2010 - Bipolar may not be the right diagnosis for some kids, according a panel of experts with the American Psychiatric Association.
Since the mid-1990s, the number of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased a staggering 4,000 percent. And that number has caused a lot of controversy in the world of child psychiatry...
In a move that could potentially change mental health practice all over America, the American Psychiatric Association has announced that it intends to include a new diagnosis in its upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — and hopes that new label will be used by clinicians instead of the bipolar label. The condition will be called temper dysregulation disorder, and it will be seen as a brain or biological dysfunction, but not as a necessarily lifelong condition like bipolar.
Dr. Michael First Talks About Proposed Changes to the DSM
Feb 11, 2010 - Dr. Michael First, editor of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of mental disoder''s fourth edition, spoke with WNYC''s Takeaway about his reaction to the proposed changes to DSM-V: “What you call something has a huge implication. Certainly the names have treatments associated with them, certain levels of stigma, so the name is extremely important. It actually makes real life difference for patients’ lives and for clinicians.”