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Miki Peer, Claudio N. Soares, MD, PhD, and Meir Steiner, MD, PhD Ms Peer reports that she has no conflicts of interest concerning the subject matter of this article. Dr Soares reports that he has received grant/research support from AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline; he is a consultant for Sepracor, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth-Ayerst, and Neurocrine; and he is on the Promotional Speakers' Bureau of GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth-Ayerst, Forest Laboratories, and Pfizer. Dr Steiner reports that he has received grant/ research support from Wyeth, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca; he is a consultant for Eli Lilly, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Lundbeck, Novartis, Wyeth, OrthoMcNeil, AstraZeneca, and Azevan Pharmaceuticals; he is on the advisory board of Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Lundbeck, OrthoMcNeil, Wyeth, Schering, Ferring, and Azevan Pharmaceuticals; and he is on the Speakers' Bureau of AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, and Wyeth. The ocurrence and severity of anxiety disorders have been c...

Provided by: Associated PressWritten by: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sep. 17, 2008 CHICAGO - A government agency in the United States has dropped plans to test a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children. The National Institute of Mental Health said in a statement Wednesday that the study of chelation (kee-LAY'-shun) has been discontinued. The statement says the agency decided the money would be better used testing other potential therapies for autism and related disorders. The study had been on hold because of safety concerns . A study published last year linked a chemical used in the treatment to lasting brain problems in rats. The treatment removes heavy metals from the body and is based on the fringe theory that mercury in vaccines triggers autism - a theory never proved and rejected by mainstream science.

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A brief overview of Interface Consultation Services current endeavors: I. Blog Focus - We continue to post weekly on ICS and Counseling Connections .Our posts include mental health research, news and thoughts we feel providers and clients will find valuable. II. Counseling Connections - Provides Licensed Professional Online and Telephone Mental Health Counseling, Coaching and Services. III. Telemental Health Triage - We continue our day-to-day service commitment to Riverwood Center to provide professional triage services so their consumers are assured efficient and timely access to mental health services, appropriate level of care assignments and expert telephone crisis triage. IV. MPRI - Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative for the Mentally Ill - ICS are contracted as the Regional Care Coordinators for the Western Michigan providing services to 18 counties. ICS has hired 5 contracts to assist with this initiative. This program continues to grow at a very fast pace and it th...

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We cannot overemphasize the important of differential diagnosis in evaluation of physical and mental health. This article clearly describes an instances of misdiagnosis. We hope you find this informative during the mosquito season.... Lyme disease can masquerade as a host of psychiatric ills, confounding doctors and driving patients to question their very sanity. By: Pamela Weintraub 1993, I spread a map across the living room of our apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, and marked a bull's-eye at Grand Central Station, where trains come in from the 'burbs. I drew a 50-mile radius around the mark, and spent the next three months searching, with my husband, Mark, for a house. We sought top-rated schools for our two boys, proximity to a train en route to Manhattan, and an ample yard. As chance would have it, we ended our hunt at the most devastatingly beautiful spot, a winding country road abutting a spruce forest in the tony suburban hamlet of Chappaqua, in Westchester County, New...

This work by the author of the article below provide useful tools for quick and fairly accurate examination of symptoms which can lend a provisional psychiatric diagnosis. That being said, interviewing techniques can be used to increase the accuracy of self-report but collateral information from physiological evidence and other sources (other clinicians, family, etc) greatly improves the accuracy of these evaluations. Please link to the site for the full article. The Psychiatric Review of Symptoms: A Screening Tool for Family Physicians DANIEL J. CARLAT, M.D., Anna Jacques Hospital, Newburyport, Massachusetts The psychiatric review of symptoms is a useful screening tool for identifying patients who have psychiatric disorders. The approach begins with a mnemonic encompassing the major psychiatric disorders: depression, personality disorders, substance abuse disorders, anxiety disorders, somatization disorder, eating disorders, cognitive disorders and psychotic disorders. For each categ...