Reading Time: 3 minutes Psychotic episodes can occur for a variety of reasons, not all of them having to do with mental illness
Author: Dr. Paul Latimer
Dr. Latimer is president of Okanagan Clinical Trials and an Okanagan psychiatrist. He has over 40 years experience in clinical practice, research and administration.
The power of the placebo effect
Reading Time: 3 minutes A patient sometimes perceives a positive result, even from a fake drug
4 per cent of adult population experience Attention Deficit disorders
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sufferers twice as likely to die of accidental causes as people who don’t suffer the disorder
Child abuse linked to depression, anxiety in later life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Childhood abuse or neglect can permanently alter an individual’s physiology
Diabetes may double risk of developing depression
Reading Time: 3 minutes Two of the primary risk factors for the disease are obesity and lack of exercise
How to keep your aging mind sharp
Reading Time: 3 minutes Research supports the ‘use it or lose it’ theory of mental ability
Genetics strongly influence our predisposition to mental illness
Reading Time: 2 minutes It is becoming increasingly clear that our genes influence everything from our personality traits to specific psychiatric disorders
The high cost of pathological gambling
Reading Time: 3 minutes Are the profits from government sponsored gambling worth the cost in human lives, broken relationships and misery?
De-institutionalization of mental illness a costly mistake
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments reneged on their promise to implement new, community-based treatment programs for the mentally ill
The stigma of mental illness
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you think you suffer from a mental illness, resist succumbing to stigma and ask your doctor about getting treatment