A new website which tries to address addiction issues in a format similar to the Huffington Post is live. “The Fix” attempts to relate to the TMZ and Perez Hilton reading crowd, while discussing topics related to addiction, medications, drugs, and the...
Persons with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) suffer from emotional dysregulation. Recent research suggests that persons with BPD have impaired recognition of the emotional states of persons around them. In other words, persons with BPD have impairment in...
An article in the New York Times entitled “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy” discusses how insurance companies have cut or eliminated reimbursement for talk therapy. They discuss how one psychiatrist has changed his practice,...
Persons with severe Bipolar Disorder with psychotic symptoms may benefit from a newer treatment modality: long acting injectable Risperidone. Researchers in Canada compared ten patients with Bipolar Disorder with psychotic symptoms who had been refractory to other...