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Mashup Score: 0Copyright Infringement: Where’s the Risk? - 16 hour(s) ago
Before you use an image or other content on your website, social media feed, or elsewhere, be sure to check if it is copyrighted, and if so, get written permission from the owner to use it.
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During one of my medical school away rotations in Ghana, I talked with many community members about mental health. To decrease the stigma of mental health conditions, we started so-called Brain Awareness activities in the Ketu South Munici pality in Ghana. The educational aspect of these activities was bidirectional: We taught community members about the brain’s parts, its function when it is healthy, and signs of mental illness. In return, the community members taught us by giving us some insight,
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Mashup Score: 5
Psychiatry continues to be a sought-after specialty with the promise of working in a variety of settings meeting an important need.
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Mashup Score: 0Psychiatrist Helps Lead Historic Crisis Services Investment - 2 day(s) ago
Matthew Goldman, M.D., M.S., is serving as medical director of a major crisis initiative in King County, Wash., where a $1.2 billion investment will create five crisis care centers. He and his coll…
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Mashup Score: 7Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., To Step Down as NIMH Director - 2 day(s) ago
Gordon, who became director in 2016 and guided the National Institute of Mental Health through the COVID-19 pandemic, will return to Columbia University as chair of its psychiatry department.
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Over the past few years, an annual toxic smog has choked the northern part of the Southeast Asian subcontinent during the postmonsoo n/early winter for several weeks. The smog, which tends to occur around the festival of Diwali, causes significant distress to the millions of people living in this region, triggers a flurry of media reports, and leads to swift yet ineffective short-term measures like restrictions on vehicular movement, bans on stubble burning and fireworks, and school/work closure.
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Mashup Score: 12APA Resource Document on Psychiatry and Military Service Provides Guidance to Civilian Psychiatrists - 3 day(s) ago
The resource document highlights critical elements of military mental health standards in a question-and-answer format on issues that civilian psychiatrists may not be aware of.
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Mashup Score: 3My Presidential Theme Is Concluding but Far From Ending - 3 day(s) ago
Over the past year, my presidential theme has been “Confronting Addiction From Prevention to Recovery.” This initiative has focused on four of the biggest areas in addiction medicine—three persistent and one emerging: vaping and tobacco, opioids, alcohol, and technological addictions. Each of these issues has been addressed in quarterly educational campaigns in which expert members of APA have created resources aimed at the general public and physicians alike. The members of the presidential initiative
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Mashup Score: 21
When a patient is labeled “treatment resistant,” clinicians are in danger of objectifying and effectively abandoning the patient, along with the sense of hope that practitioners and patients should…
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SPECIAL REPORT | When a patient is labeled “treatment resistant,” clinicians are in danger of objectifying and effectively abandoning the patient, along with the sense of hope that practitioners and patients should be sharing. https://t.co/5FwhRLsB9M #Psychiatry #MentalHealth https://t.co/qG5wwuL4Ms
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Mashup Score: 0Understanding the Psychological Impacts of Wildfires - 4 day(s) ago
A pair of studies found that both anxiety-related emergency visits and prescriptions of mood medications rose in areas affected by wildfires or wildfire smoke.
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