Jan 27th, 2010 · A new study reports a sharp increase in the number of U.S. troops evacuated for psychiatric reasons in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, more troops were evacuated for mental health problems in 2007 than for combat injuries.
Jan 4th, 2010 · While the safety of antipsychotic and antidepressants drugs has been debated in children, this is one of the first studies to look at trends over time of prescribing multiple psychiatric drugs to adults. The authors found that patients are commonly prescribed untested combinations of drugs, where the efficacy and possible side effects of the combos are unknown.
Dec 29th, 2009 · Robin D.G. Kelley spent 14 years on a new book, which some are calling the definitive work on a jazz legend. In Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, he portrays the great pianist as a trained musician, a psychiatric case and a father.
Dec 18th, 2009 · Dr. Julie Holland ran the weekend shift at Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room for nine years. In her new memoir Weekends at Bellevue, Holland describes the patients she encountered — from the manic to the criminally insane — and the reasons she eventually left the job.
Nov 2nd, 2009 · Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is not in need of psychiatric care and has been discharged from the mental-care unit at the jail where he's awaiting trial, a top jail doctor said Monday. Kerik "poses no risk to himself or others due to any psychiatric illness," Dr. Robert Mahler said.
Oct 30th, 2009 · Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is displaying worrisome, risky behavior in jail, a federal judge said Friday after speaking with the jail's psychiatric director. Lawyers and jail officials wouldn't comment on specifics, including whether Kerik was on a suicide watch.
Oct 26th, 2009 · When budgets get tight, colleges struggle to support the students who need psychiatric help. Experts stress that it is vital that schools keep their counseling centers and other mental health resources intact.
Oct 23rd, 2009 · Weekends at Bellevue is psychiatrist Julie Holland's account of her years treating patients in a New York City psychiatric ER. She says one of the hardest parts of her job was figuring out which patients were manic or schizophrenic and which were high on cocaine or methamphetamines.