Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders.
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Algonquin College is partnering with The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, a teaching and research hospital that looks to help those living with mental illness and addiction. The endeavour is meant to bring new mental-health resources to th...
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London’s beleaguered Tavistock youth gender clinic faces litigation aimed at protecting a 15-year-old autistic girl from puberty-blocker drugs with unknown long-term risks.The anonymous mother of the girl, said to be suffering “gender confusion”, has...
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New research has identified brain circuitry differences that might be associated with suicidal behavior in individuals with mood disorders.The study provides a promising lead toward tools that can predict which individuals are at the highest risk for...
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A St. Anthony man says he was so unwell last month that he was admitted to hospital but wasn't allowed to see a medical doctor who specialized in the specific health problem he was facing. T.J. Smith went to the Charles S. Curtis Memorial Hospital i...
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"Joker" has sparked many conversations about mental illness.But while the movie gets some things right, it also gets a lot wrong, according to psychiatry professor Dr Ziv Cohen.Cohen, who specializes in violence and psychopathy,...
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On July 29, 2015, police brought a 27-year-old woman to the psychiatric emergency room at San Francisco General Hospital. Her name was Summer. She’d been hallucinating when she was pi...
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Bang Showbiz 13 October 2019 Todd Phillips Hollywood director Todd Phillips has confessed he didn't want to think like a "psychiatrist" whilst directing 'Joker' Todd Phillips was determined not to think like a "psychiatrist" whilst directing 'Jok...
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New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) Psychology students at the Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) are being trained to identify suicidal tendencies and provide psychological first-aid to prevent a "suicide attempt", varsity officials said. It is also a major miscon...
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A magnetic resonance imaging scanner at Arkansas Children's Research Institute is so powerful, researchers say, that it will deactivate credit cards and send metal chairs flying. But the super-strong magn...
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‘De-Addiction Services’ launched at A.J Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre Mangaluru : On the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2019, De-addiction services in the Department of Psychiatry, A.J...
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The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, was hailed as a scientific Second Coming. It was said that the sequencing of the genome would enable us to identify faulty genes underlying most human diseases and then develop drugs t...