Ideally, both parents should be involved, Dr. Walkup advises. “If you are doing a major intervention, like starting an 8-year-old on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) or a 6-year-old on ...

The Examining Quality, Use and Impact of Psychotropic (Use) in older adults with intellectual disabilities (EQUIP) study, has revealed that more than half of older adults with intellectual disability ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte An expert editorial suggests that widely used diabetes and obesity drugs may help close the long-standing ...

Findings showed no significant difference in the risk of contraceptive failure between COC + PD users and COC-only users. The risk of contraceptive failure appears to be low in patients taking ...

More cats and dogs are being prescribed meds for compulsive behavior and anxiety Feb. 10, 2012— -- Psychiatric medications such as Prozac are being prescribed more often to man's best friend to ...

City lawmakers hope expanding outpatient treatment will reduce the strain on psychiatric beds for the most desperately ill San Franciscans.

A recent study highlights a surprising potential benefit of diabetes and obesity drugs, GLP-1 receptor agonists, in improving ...

A few weeks ago, I posted my list of the five most influential psychiatric thinkers of all time: Emil Kraepelin, Sigmund Freud, Eugen Bleuler, Nathan S. Kline, and Aaron Beck. After some feedback on ...