As a second-year College of Medicine student, how do you choose a specialty when you’re torn between family medicine, psychiatry and pediatrics? Lance Reidenbach, a Northeast Ohio Medical University College […]
Strategies exist that could have saved the life of Daniel Prude, says a post on generocity.org. (Prude sought help for his serious mental illness but was released, and the story […]
“We must allow our citizens to make informed choices. A page on a website, a label on a box. The platforms exist. It’s time we use them properly.” So says […]
In this lecture, Dr. Dugan discusses medications that commonly cause hyperprolactinemia and presents options for management. By the end of this lecture, you will be able to: 1) list the causes of elevated prolactin levels, 2) identify symptoms associated with elevated prolactin levels, and 3) compare the impact medications commonly used for mental health conditions have on prolactin levels.
More transparency about the potential risks of medical marijuana is needed from the websites for such programs, says Erik Messamore, M.D., Ph.D., in an article published on the KevinMD.com blog. […]
Increased mental health funding isn’t sufficient to address the over-representation of people with mental illness in the justice system, writes Mark Munetz, M.D., professor and chair emeritus of psychiatry at […]
Interviewers Josh Berezin and Lisa Dixon of American Psychiatric Association Publishing spoke recently with Erik Messamore, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, about his article “Informed Consent: […]
The power to declare something to be a legitimate medicine comes with the responsibility to provide information that people need to use the medicine wisely. That is the opinion expressed […]
Considerations for engaging with young adults who are experiencing first episode psychosis are discussed by Crystal N. Dunivant, MSW, LSW.
Twenty years ago, a Northeast Ohio Medical University psychiatry professor and an Akron police department lieutenant teamed up to bring about a new collaboration between law enforcement and mental health […]
