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Psychiatry Embraces Patient-Centered Care: Dr. Lieberman

February 11, 2014 By Phil Hickey |

On January 29, the APA’s online bulletin Psychiatric News, published Psychiatry Embraces Patient-Centered Care, by Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, and Lisa Dixon, MD.  Dr. Lieberman is President of the APA, and chair of psychiatry at Columbia University.  Dr. Dixon is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia. Here’s the opening statement: “Psychiatry has long been considered the… Continue Reading

Revitalizing Psychiatric Therapeutics?

February 10, 2014 By Phil Hickey |

In January of this year, Steven Hyman MD, former Director of NIMH and currently a leading psychiatric researcher at MIT and Harvard, published Revitalizing Psychiatric Therapeutics in Neuropsychopharmacology.  The article is in the journal’s commentary section and is essentially an opinion piece.  Here’s Dr. Hyman’s summary: “Despite high prevalence and enormous unmet medical need, the… Continue Reading

Schizophrenia Research

February 5, 2014 By Phil Hickey |

Psychiatric News is the APA’s online bulletin.  On Jan 15, it ran an article by Vabren Watts (an APA staff writer).  The article is called APA Gives Schizophrenia Research Capitol Hill Spotlight. It is reported in the article that on December 12, 2013, the APA, together with the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus and the American Brain… Continue Reading

Clubfoot – A Story of Hope

January 30, 2014 By Phil Hickey |

On January 27, NPR ran a short piece on a new treatment for clubfoot.  Here’s a quote from the transcript: “Just a decade ago, up to 90 percent of babies…were treated with surgery that usually had to be repeated several times. That created a buildup of scar tissue that often left patients with a lifetime… Continue Reading

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