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Institute of Psychiatry

Type: Organization
Name: Institute of Psychiatry
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Medicine)
Study Finds Depression as Deadly as Smoking
Depression is as much of a risk factor for death as smoking, according to a new study. Utilising a unique link between a survey of over 60,000 people and a comprehensive mortality database, researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute ... [MedIndia - 20 hours ago]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in Medicine)
Depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking, says new study
A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.Utilising a unique link between a survey of over ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)
Anti-Psychotic Drugs Linked to Dementia Patient Deaths in UK
British health professionals have called for a change in the treatment of dementia patients after an official report warned that wrongly prescribed anti-psychotic medicines are causing the deaths of an estimated 1,800 each year.As many as 144,000 out ... [MedIndia - 11/14/2009]
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
Dementia drug use linked to UK patient deaths (AFP)
LONDON (AFP) British health professionals have called for a change in the treatment of dementia patients after an official report warned that wrongly prescribed anti-psychotic medicines are causing the deaths of an estimated 1,800 each year.As many as ... [Yahoo! News - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 5 Documents (in Health)
UK study warns against anti-psychotics for dementia
By Kate KellandLONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - More than 140,000 dementia patients in Britain are given anti-psychotic drugs needlessly and overprescribing of the medicines is linked to an extra 1,800 deaths in elderly people each year, a report said on T ... [London South East - 11/12/2009]
First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 4 Documents
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Johnson accused as more scientists quit
The Home Secretary was again under attack from scientific advisers today after three resigned from the government's drugs panel.Alan Johnson was accused of "political expediency" in the face of scientific advice and an effective betrayal of trust by a ... [Times Online - 11/11/2009]
First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 2 Documents (in Medicine)
Returning U.K. Soldiers Suffer from Depression, Turn to Alcohol
Research conducted by psychiatrists in Britain has revealed that members of the country's armed forces returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan commonly suffer from depression, with many turning to alcohol for relief. The study, carried out by the ... [Digital Journal - 10/30/2009]
First Reported 11/01/2009 - Updated 11/01/2009 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)
Depression and Alcohol Misuse More Common Than PTSD Amongst UK Troops
Category: Lifestyle NewsFont SizeUK troops suffer from common mental disorders, such as depression and alcohol misuse post-deployment and not post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as is widely believed.A study published today in the open access journal, ... [MedIndia - 11/01/2009]
First Reported 11/01/2009 - Updated 11/01/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Serelax Continues to Capture Market Share as Leading All-Natural Anti-Depressant
-- All natural Serelax - one of the most widely relied upon natural antidepressants in the world - has solidified itself in the nonprescription marketplace as premium, prescribed drugs continue to be the subject of much medical debate for their numerous ... [PRWeb via Yahoo! - 11/01/2009]
First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
Psychiatric inpatients who regain capacity accepting of surrogate treatment decisions
MedWire News: Nearly 85% of patients who regain mental capacity following informal or involuntary psychiatric admission under the Mental Health Act believe that they needed surrogate decision-making by doctors and that the decisions were of the right ... [MedWire News - 11/10/2009]
First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents
Pesticides linked to suicidal thoughts
People with higher levels of pesticide exposure are more likely to have suicidal thoughts, researchers in China and Britain found.Dr. Robert Stewart of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, who worked with the scientists from Tongde Hospital ... [Individual.com - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 1 Documents (in Chemistry)
Suicidal Thoughts an Offshoot Of High Levels of Pesticide Exposure
Category: Mental Health NewsFont SizeThe results of a recent study have shown that people who are highly exposed to agricultural pesticides are more likely to have suicidal thoughts.The agricultural pesticides commonly used in China are organophosphates, ... [MedIndia - 10/26/2009]

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...function differently too,' said Geschwind, who is currently a visiting professor at the InstituteInstitute of Psychiatry at King s College London. "Our findings may shed light on why human brains are born with the circuitry for speech and language and chimp brains are not."
Why can't chimps speak? [Science Today - 11/17/2009]
...Banerjee, the report's author and professor of mental health at King s College LondonCollege London Institute of Psychiatry, said in the report. "It is clear that these medications are being prescribed to deal with behaviour and psychological symptoms in dementia rather than just for psychosis" he added. Banerjee urged social care services to develop a "different mindset" in tackling the issue
Dementia drug use linked to UK patient deaths (AFP) [Yahoo! News - 11/16/2009]

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Ritalin? But my sons only two [Times Online - 12 hours ago]
Study Finds Depression as Deadly as Smoking [MedIndia - 20 hours ago]
Depression as deadly as smoking, but anxiety ma... [Science Centric - 11/20/2009]
Sacked adviser urges drugs probe [BBC - 11/19/2009]
In Memoriam Michael Russell [SRNT - 11/18/2009]
Depression is as much of a risk factor for mort... [News-Medical.Net - 11/18/2009]
Depression as deadly as smoking, but anxiety ma... [Genetic Engineering News - 11/17/2009]
Why can't chimps speak? [Science Today - 11/17/2009]
Dementia drug use linked to UK patient deaths ... [Yahoo! News - 11/16/2009]
The Get Out of Jail Free gene [Times Online - 11/16/2009]
Why are Indian families shrinking? [Hindustan Times - 11/15/2009]
Anti-Psychotic Drugs Linked to Dementia Patient... [MedIndia - 11/14/2009]
Government seeks to patch up relations with sci... [Times Higher Education Supplement - 11/13/2009]
Antipsychotics being used as 'chemical cosh' on... [Nursing Times - 11/13/2009]
Dementia drugs used "unnecessarily" [Pharmacy Europe - 11/13/2009]
GPs in firing line on antipsychotics use [Pulse - 11/12/2009]
UK study warns against anti-psychotics for deme... [London South East - 11/12/2009]
Most antipsychotics given to dementia patients ... [PJ Online - 11/12/2009]
Wrongly prescribed dementia sedatives kill 1,500 [Times Online - 11/12/2009]
UK study warns against anti-psychotics for deme... [Interactive Investor International - 11/12/2009]
Warning against anti-psychotics for dementia [Reuters UK - 11/12/2009]
Why can't chimps speak like their human cousins? [Yahoo! India - 11/12/2009]
Overprescribed 'chemical cosh' linked to 1,800 ... [Telegraph - 11/12/2009]
Dementia drugs 'useless for most' [BBC - 11/12/2009]
Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution o... [PhysOrg.com - 11/12/2009]
Evolution Of Single Gene Linked To Human Speech [Red Orbit - 11/11/2009]
Why can't chimps speak? [EurekAlert! - 11/11/2009]
Johnson accused as more scientists quit [Times Online - 11/11/2009]
Alan Johnson accused of 'political expediency' ... [Times Online - 11/11/2009]
Scientist accuses Johnson after triple resignation [Times Online - 11/11/2009]
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Personalized Medicine for the Brain: A Call for... [Health Business Blog - 11/03/2009]
For a number of years I’ve worked with Brain Resource, a personalized medicine company with a revolutionary standardized, integrated database of the human brain. ...
Does Multitasking Make You More Productive? [We... [GigaOM Network - 11/02/2009]
A whole generation of web workers has been raised on the idea that the more activities you can do at one time, the more of a productivity superstar you are. But ...
Rubbish in the margin [Mind Hacks - 10/04/2009]
One of the most influential and controversial papers in psychiatry was from a 1976 study published in The Lancet that found that people with schizophrenia had larger ...
Robert David Jaffee: Psychopaths, Not Psychotic... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 09/22/2009]
A friend of mine from graduate school raised some interesting points regarding one of my previous pieces, titled "Psychopaths, Not Psychotics" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert ... ...
A Biological Explanation For Psychopaths [Scientific Blogging - 08/04/2009]
Professor Declan Murphy and colleagues Dr. Michael Craig and Dr. Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London say they have found differences ...
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