Psychotropics Lower, Don't Raise, Mortality in Psych Patients

Psychotropics Lower, Don't Raise, Mortality in Psych Patients
Severe psychiatric illness, especially schizophrenia and major depression, are associated with an increased risk for death, but the newer agents prescribed to treat these illnesses appear to reduce this risk, new research suggests. The results, from an … Read more on Medscape

Depression and the risk of dying
Depression is usually classified into severe (or major) and mild (or minor) forms. In the severe form the symptoms are obvious, but the mild form is harder to recognize, and is sometimes termed “sub-threshold”. People with major depression have an … Read more on Telemanagement

Menninger Mindscape: An Interview with Helen Mayberg, MD
John M. Oldham, MD, MS, host of Mindscape, interviews Helen Mayberg, MD, professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Radiology and the Dorothy C. Fuqua Chair of P…