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Cincinnati's Psychoanalytic Institute carries on in changing times (BizJournals) Modern psychiatry talks of neurons, neurotransmitters and treating symptoms with medications. | Scientists dig deeper into the genetics of schizophrenia by evaluating microRNAs (EurekAlert!) Maria Karayiorgou, M.D., professor of psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center. Shown here is human chromosome 22 and the piece of the chromosome missing in some patients with schizophrenia. Loss of this chromosomal piece (22q11) is the only known recurrent copy... | FONT SIZE (Las Vegas CityLife) WHAT QUALIFIES former cokehead, alcoholic and drug courier Matthew Dovel as a suicide prevention expert? Not a counseling degree. Not a psychiatry background. Not a marriage and family therapy license. Nothing like that. | Kids land up at shrinks' door (The Times of India) In one month, January 2008, 20 kids between the ages of 10 and 13 were referred to the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB), Bambolim, for assessment as they were ‘not up to the mark’ in class. | Scientists Dig Deeper into the Genetics of Schizophrenia by Evaluating MicroRNAs (Newswise) Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have illuminated a window into how abnormalities in microRNAs, a family of molecules that regulate expression of numerous genes, may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizophrenia and possibly other brain disorders. In the May 11 issue of Nature Genetics, Maria Karayiorgou, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and ... |
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