Check Out the New Issue!



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.