Smartphone-Based Conversational Agents and Responses to Questions About Mental Health, Interpersonal Violence, and Physical Health AUTHORS: Adam S. Miner, PsyD; Arnold Milstein, MD; Stephen Schueller, PhD; Roshini Hegde; Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS; Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH This March 2016 article by San Francisco authors was designed to describe responses of four widely used technological conversational […]
Depression, Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Psychology, Smart Phone Technology, TechnologyImpulse control disorders in elderly patients Tamam L, Bican M, Keskin N Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Adana, Turkey [email protected] ABSTRACT Objective: There is no epidemiological study on the prevalence of impulse control disorders (ICDs) in the elderly population. The studies on ICDs in elderly patients are limited and some of them […]
Mental Health, psychiatry
New criteria increase number of men with depression Liz Szabo, USA TODAY August 28, 2013 [REPRINTED] STORY HIGHLIGHTS About 30% of men are depressed — the same as women — when diagnosed under new criteria. Traditional symptoms of depression are sadness, loss of sleep, lack of interest in usual activities. While women may manifest these […]
Depression, Mental Health, Psychology, psychosocialThe Experience of Symptoms of Depression in Men vs Women Analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Lisa A. Martin, PhD1; Harold W. Neighbors, PhD2; Derek M. Griffith, PhD3,4 Abstract Excerpt: Until now, women have been diagnosed with depression twice as often as men. This sex ratio appears in almost every setting, including Western and […]
Depression, Mental Health, psychiatry, Psychology, psychosocial