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Is the mortality from smoking-related diseases higher in patients with schizophrenia? What decade did the concept of the quality of life with antipsychotics come into being? These questions and more in this week's quiz.

The varied proponents of models for the regulation of CME programs for physicians would all agree that the primary charge of these programs is to provide physicians with scientifically unbiased information on issues or knowledge that affects medical practice.

Previously, I have been quite critical of the DSM-5 suggestion to introduce a new diagnosis-- Minor Neurocognitive Disorder--on the grounds that it would create a large false positive problem and would lead to unnecessary worry and cost with no useful intervention.

Treating the Whole Patient dialogue explores the relationship between mental health and physical conditions. The discussion is moderated by Drs Jon W. Draud, Rakesh Jain, Vladimir Maletic and Charles Raison.

ADHD may be more prevalent than we know, and it may be taking a toll on marriage. Findings suggest that many adults with the disorder never received a diagnosis as children.

A recent story in the Atlantic magazine, The End of Men, explores gender issues in the 21st century. Women now make up the majority of the workforce, and women outnumber men 3 to 2 in getting a college degree. Is postindustrial society more suited to women?

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Efficacy and safety of bupropion and SSRIs in comorbid depression and restless legs syndrome? Which psychiatric scale has proven useful for tracking depression when Electroconvulsive Therapy is involved? These questions and more in this week's Mine Your Mind quiz.

A joint study by researchers at two universities reported that the majority of people with alcohol problems who seek out clergy for help have or will also use professional mental health services at some point in their recovery process.

Researchers who have spent their careers studying schizophrenia and mood disorders might be forgiven a bit of “biomarker envy.” At long last, it seems that the neurologists and neuropsychiatrists have developed some fairly sensitive and specific “lab tests” for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).

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There have been multiple criticisms of both the proposed content of DSM-5 and the process by which it is being developed. I have expressed my concerns about its proposals for diagnoses dealing with pain, especially the creation of the new diagnosis of Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder, to readers of Psychiatric Times in my Pain Management columns.

Is there a link between heartbreak and addiction? A recent study shows that the same areas of the brain were affected as those associated with addiction, reward, craving, and depression.

Dr Muller, in his piece “Psychiatric Symptoms Can be Understood Even When These Symptoms Cannot Be Explained,” makes a number of assertions about DSM-III and its successors that reflect a mischaracterization of its “descriptive approach.”

What is transparent to one person may be opaque to another. It is clear to me that before symptoms can be used to make a valid psychiatric diagnosis the meaning and context of these symptoms must be taken into account. Many clinicians do not see it that way. Neither did the DSM-III and its subsequent editions.

In continuing efforts to help the overwhelming number of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD, the US Army is using therapy dogs.

One cannot but be impressed at the ingenuity of our DSM-5 mavens at conjuring up new diagnostic syndromes.

Since the early twentieth century, when Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin constructed it as a unified clinical-pathological entity, Alzheimer’s disease has been both one of the most stable and one of the most problematic neuropsychiatric entities.

The basic problem is that the body is extremely complicated and most diseases don't arise from anything resembling simple genetic causes. We are the miraculous result of an exquisitely wrought DNA engineering that has to get trillions and trillions of steps just right. But any super-complicated system will have its occasional chaotic glitch.