Psychiatry Medicine & Health Pages
By Admin
REGINA — Crown prosecutors, defence lawyers and judges sit on opposite sides of the bench, but often they grapple with a deep-seated problem — how to deal with people who exhibit symptoms of mental illness.
UTMB gets started on H1N1 pediatric vaccineBy Admin
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston on Friday began conducting pediatric vaccine trials for the H1N1 virus.
Acute Stress During Birth Linked to Schizophrenia in ChildrenBy Joshua Hill
We’ve known for some time now that stress is not conducive to healthy living. It affects us in a myriad of ways from something simple like not being able to concentrate, all the way through to raised blood pressure. But in a Time article recently, it was shown that stress can also increase the risk of a child developing schizophrenia later in life if during the pregnancy, the mum suffers from acute stress.
Anorexia and Suicides; a Sadly Emphatic LinkBy Joshua Hill
Recently Time ran a story focusing on new research which has shown that suicide in those suffering from anorexia nervosa (AN) is often attempted much more effectively than others.
Dummy Pills, Guns and DoctorsBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, remarked, “To almost every question there is an answer that is clear, concise, coherent and wrong”! For years we’ve been told that anti-depressant drugs were the be-all-and-end-all for depressed patients. Now, a recent report claims that placebos are just as effective for many patients. So should doctors use placebos (dummy pills) to trick patients? The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) helps to answer this dilemma.
Depression turns off the music in the mother-baby danceBy online
Your newborn is crying. If it’s a cry of pain, you’re going to respond more strongly than you would to a cry of hunger – that’s the normal pattern.
Innovative Teen Programs to Curb the Symptoms of AutismBy Yomin Postelnik
The general rule is that treatment for autism must be delivered in the early stages of a child’s life. To be sure, early detection is critical and can mean the difference between mainstreaming a child or not as he or she gets ready to enter school.
Yet while early detection is essential, one should not think that nothing can be done in the later yBy Joshua Hill
Sufferers of deep depression may finally have a solution to an illness that can literally debilitate living. Depression is now getting the sort of attention that cancer and AIDS have been getting for years, though it has no doubt affected just as many people over the decades. However even with this new attention, it is neither curable nor necessarily easy to live with.
Coping With The Mother Of Economic DisastersBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Sheer chance had me aboard the Holland America Line in the middle of the Pacific Ocean when the stock market crashed with devastating results. If I’d been in Canada I could have cried on my financial advisor’s shoulders while asking why so much hard earned money was going down the drain. And as the news became progressively worse, I wondered if I could even afford a canoe to return to Canada. So how did my psyche cope with this “mother” of all economic disasters? Hopefully, this advice will help others who have seen their finances melt.
Why Do You Laugh? There Is No One With You.By Dr. Gifford Jones
What prescription could I write to ease this patient’s trouble during the holiday season? I knew that Prozac or St. John’s Wort was not the answer. Nor could any of the other drugs that I normally prescribe ease her suffering. Finally, I realized the best prescription was staring me right in the face. So as she left the office I wrote a few numbers down on my prescription pad. And I hope that some readers will do the same thing.
A Revolutionary Way To Beat Stress Without DrugsBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Who wouldn’t want to be less stressed these days when each day brings more frightening economic news? But before you reach for Prozac, make note of a new breakthrough non-drug way to shrug off stress, sharpen your mind, enhance memory, sleep like a baby and improve emotional health. The science behind this exciting breakthrough is called “Mind Aerobics”, based on powerful sound technology called “Holosync”, and used by 300,000 people in 55 countries.
