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 ...

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

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 ...

CHICAGO -- The number of U.S. children and adolescents on Ritalin, antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs surged between 1987 and 1996, a trend some experts say is continuing. The study did not ...

The past quarter-century has brought dramatic advances in the treatment of mental illness. [5] Several important psychotherapies were developed, but many of the key innovations were psychotropic drugs ...

The number of Americans 65 years of age or older taking three or more psychotropic drugs more than doubled from 2004 to 2013, according to a new study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. For ...

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 ...

With time, my body is healing, and I’m slowly learning how to feel my emotions. I was only hospitalized for two weeks, but it ...

Once again, I just finished another consultation with someone from out of state who was desperate to find a therapist who he could talk to. He didn’t want to be pigeon holed into some DSM-5 ...