Competitive psychiatry

Pharmacogenomics approach in psychiatry disorders

Psychiatric disorders are important health issues in the world, and their management is facing some serious challenges. Drugs that are widely used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers, are often associated with many side effects and are adequately effective only in a small proportion of patients. Many factors, including genet...

God Psychiatry Versus Good Psychiatry

Since psychiatry often requires an intimate, informal dialogue between patient and doctor, can psychiatrists afford to retain the remote, omnipotent image which they have inherited?

Psychiatry.

The department offers a four-year training program approved by the Residency Review Committee of the American Medical Association. Training experiences are available at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and at the Iowa City VA Health Care System. Additional experiences are available at affiliated institutions: Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, the Iowa Medical and Classification C...

Psychiatry

Contemporary psychiatry uses a variety of complementary approaches which enrich one another. In this paper, we describe the development of a brief psychodynamic approach for hospitalized patients with major depression, as well as the recent commercialization of an atypical neuroleptic depot medication. In addition, we discuss electro-convulsotherapy which, despite it has been widely and underst...

Psychiatry