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The two biggest individual awards Conference USA hands out were both given to UTEP on Wednesday.
Barbee Wins Conf. USA Coach Of The Year, Culpepper Wins Player Award (KFOX 14 El Paso)
Study shows encouraging results of DBS in psychiatric disorder treatment (News-Medical-Net)
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Psychosurgery is making a comeback. Recently published case series have shown encouraging results of so-called deep brain stimulation (DBS) in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder, depressive disorders, and Tourette syndrome.
Narcotics Anonymous Gives Hope
Narcotics Anonymous is a nonprofit organization that works for the recovery of drug addicts. It follows a twelve step program and it is group-oriented. It explains itself as a society of men and women for whom drugs had become a disturbing problem.
Psychiatric Presentations of Autoimmune Encephalopathies (Psychiatric Times)
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While a biological basis for numerous psychiatric illnesses has become increasingly appreciated, few mechanistic hypotheses have gripped psychiatric researchers as strongly as an autoimmune basis for behavioral abnormalities.
Sex addiction divides mental health experts (Los Angeles Times)
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Is extreme sexual acting out an obsessive-compulsive disorder, a sign of depression or just bad behavior? ‘If we are looking at a disorder, it’s not clear what that disorder is,’ one expert says.