New research bolsters the idea that the risk for psychiatric and developmental disorders isn’t specific to particular conditions — and that could mean new opportunities to treat mental illnesses that focus more on their common genetic roots.
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Viewpoint: My Case Shows What’s Right — and Wrong — With Psychiatric Diagnoses
Over the course of my life, I have been given no fewer than five different diagnoses for mental illnesses, under the diagnostic system laid out in psychiatry’s “bible,” the DSM. But it was a sixth diagnosis— one that …
Mental Health Researchers Reject Psychiatry’s New Diagnostic ‘Bible’
Just weeks before psychiatry’s new diagnostic “bible”—the DSM 5— is set to be released, the world’s major funder of mental health research has announced that it will not use the new diagnostic system to guide its …
Most Common Psychiatric Disorders Share Genetic Roots
Diverse mental illnesses may actually represent variations on a common theme rather than separate disorders.
Brain Map: President Obama Proposes First Detailed Guide of Human Brain Function
To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map would help.
How Keeping Psych Records Too Private Can Hurt Patient Care
The latest research suggests that preventing psychiatrists from sharing their patients’ records with their other doctors may actually do more harm than good.
Drugging Poor Kids to Boost Grades in Failing Schools: One Doc Says Yes
Why are so many poor kids taking risky psychiatric medications? A front-page story in Tuesday’s New York Times offers one surprising answer: some pediatricians are prescribing drugs — medications to treat ADHD — to try to …
Psychiatrist Contends the Field Is ‘Committing Professional Suicide’
Psychiatry — and medicine in general — has a dangerously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry
Time for a Time Out: Why Are 40,000 Children So Harshly Disciplined in Public Schools?
If psychiatric facilities can eliminate the traumatic punishment techniques of isolation and restraint, why can’t public schools?
Making Choices: How Your Brain Decides
Two distinct brain networks guide our reasoning and the behaviors we ultimately undertake based on those judgments
Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Bipolar 2: A Diagnosis Muddled by the Market
Why the Congressman’s recent diagnosis of bipolar 2 has a history of controversy
DSM-5 Could Categorize 40% of College Students as Alcoholics
Most college binge drinkers and drug users don’t develop lifelong problems. But new mental-health guidelines will label too many of them addicts and alcoholics.
DSM-5 Debate: Committee Backs Off Some Changes, Re-Opens Comments
The committee responsible for revising the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — psychiatry’s diagnostic “bible” commonly referred to as the DSM — has dropped the inclusion of two …