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What Are the Mental Health Effects of Climate Change?

Justin Karter - April 13, 2016 0

This MedScape Psychiatry Minute video reviews new research concluding that climate change increases the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders....

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Researchers Give High Safety Rating to ECT Despite 69% Risk of...

November 28, 2023

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In Advancing Psychedelics, Australian Drug Regulator Ignored the Report of Its...

November 27, 2023

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Plotting a Research Path to a New Model of Mental Health...

November 24, 2023

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Mainstream Narratives: A Person-Centered Paradigm of Care Is Gaining Favor in...

November 23, 2023

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Medical Stethoscope and Pills on Dollars

Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

November 27, 2023

Letting Go of Lithium

November 24, 2023

Pigs in the Hospital: The Collapse of Venezuela’s Mental Health System

November 23, 2023

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Psychiatry, Violence, and the State: California’s Systematic Failure of Its Unhoused...

November 22, 2023

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