Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Dr. James L. Griffith, professor and interim chair of Psychiatry and Neurology and director of the Psychiatry Residency Program at SMHS, was awarded the Creative Scholarship Award by the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) at their annual meeting, June 2 – 4.
Dr. Charles Samenow, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published an op-ed on hypersexual disorder.
Dr. Charles Samenow, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was featured on ABC News Good Morning America, commenting on sex addiction. This story was also covered on the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C.
For decades, analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense have compiled psychological assessments of hostile leaders like Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya and Kim Jong-il of North Korea.
Scientists say the amount of radioactivity from Japan should pose no danger to people living in the United States.
The vital signs — pulse, blood pressure, temperature, respiratory rate, and sometimes pain — are the ABCs of the health care professions; the building blocks upon which future decisions and communications are based. They are so important that Jimmie Holland, M.D., Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psycho-…
Smoking marijuana has been linked with an increased risk of mental illness, and now researchers, including Michael Compton, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, say that when marijuana smokers do become mentally ill, the disease starts…
A recent study has identified a link between online life and depression.
Jared Lee Loughner, who is accused of critically wounding a U.S. congresswoman, fits the profile of a mentally unstable youth.
The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has sparked an intense debate over whether incendiary political talk is a real danger or merely vivid political rhetoric.