“Getting the community not only to understand what this is but to demand it,” Dr. Lisa Dixon said, “just the way you would demand cancer treatment, that is gonna give you a better chance of recovery.”
“A psychiatrist is trained more extensively, has a broader scope of knowledge with which to define potential diagnoses, and can deliver treatment more expeditiously,” Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman explains.
“Not everyone who will be exposed to some of the genetic or environmental risk factors for autism will be diagnosed,” Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele explains.
Dr. Andrew Solomon, author of the 2012 bestselling book Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, is narrowing the scope of his work for a feature film adaptation.
Approximately a million Puerto Ricans are expected to present with PTSD in the next 2 years and hundreds will die by suicide as a result of the hurricane writes Dr. Cesar Alfonso.
Only 2 percent to 3 percent of physicians nationwide are approved to prescribe buprenorphine, said Dr. Adam Bisaga. "We need to make this treatment available in every community”.
“Many people have theorized about gender identity," says Dr. Jack Drescher, but "in our current state of knowledge about how one forms a gender identity, the answer is that we don’t know.”
“It is well known that mood and anxiety problems — for example, major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder — frequently coexist with binge eating disorder,” says Dr. Allegra Broft.
"Psychiatrists often evaluate and treat people with a number of recognized risk factors for violence,” says Dr. Paul Appelbaum. "It makes sense that they would be at greatest risk.”
