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 5/6/11 12:00 AM

# Check Out the New Issue!

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| Patrick Kennedy is interviewed by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., on the public TV program "Healthy Lives." Credit: WLIW-21 |

 The May 6 issue of *Psychiatric News* is now live on the Internet. In this issue you'll find a report on Rep. Patrick Kennedy's new brain-research initiative, called "The Next Frontier: One Mind for the Brain"; an update on state efforts to grant psychologists prescriptive authority; a dramatic tale about a psychiatrist who returned to his home country of Libya to provide medical assistance; preliminary results of a major study on risk factors associated with suicide in the Army; and a report on a study indicating that cognitive decline is evidenced years before a diagnosis of Alzheimer's is made. To access these and other articles in the issue, go to [http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/9.toc](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/9.toc).

[suicide](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/suicide), [cognitive decline](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/cognitive-decline), [Alzheimer’s](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/alzheimers), [brain research](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/brain-research), [Army](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/army)

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