Highlights From APA’s 2018 Annual Meeting: Issue #3

As ECT Marks 80th Birthday, Experts Reflect on Its Future
Researchers are using neuroimaging to determine additional ways to make this proven treatment for treatment-resistant depression even safer and more effective.

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Assembly Seeks Help for Members Appealing Insurance Denials
At its meeting in May, the APA Assembly took action on a number of issues important to the Association, the field of psychiatry, and its patients. Among them was a proposal to help members appeal denied insurance claims.

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Equine Therapy Helps Patients Overcome Range of Psychiatric Disorders
In this millennia-old practice, equine-assisted therapy promotes patients’ physical, occupational, and emotional growth.

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Identities Should Be Additive, Not ‘Either/Or,’ Say Speakers
Self-reflections shared by three speakers highlight how women of color face unique discrimination and biases.

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Taking Some Antipsychotics During Pregnancy May Raise Risk of Gestational Diabetes
Women who continue use of the antipsychotic drugs olanzapine and quetiapine during pregnancy have an increased risk of gestational diabetes, according to a study in AJP in Advance that was released at the APA Annual Meeting.

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