By increasing neuroplasticity, psychedelics may both enhance creativity and be useful for treating a variety of psychiatric ...

Veterans Affairs doctors would have to explain the side effects and risks of psychiatric medications to veterans if a new ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Jackie Juarez remembers taking pills – lots of pills. “They would make me sleepy, and I would throw up every night,” Juarez told the courtroom, recounting memories from her seven years ...

"Because of the process of foster care — multiple foster home placements, inconsistency with medical follow up, and difficulty in obtaining child psychiatrists — these kids will be at higher risk for ...

The two-hour documentary Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry’s Deadly Side Effects confronts a question long avoided: ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be increasing its oversight of the use of psychotropic drugs to pay closer attention to certain classes, warned the lead author of a federal report ...

Patients with autoimmune Addison disease (AAD) showed increased use of hypnotics/sedatives, anxiolytics, and antidepressants in the year before diagnosis, suggesting potential misdiagnosis of early ...

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 discharge and prevalence of psychoactive drugs in surface waters has raised concerns about potential risks to ecosystems ...

Early resumption of psychiatric medication in the emergency department is not associated with increased length of stay or ...