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Now in its 15th year, Primary Psychiatry is the largest circulation, peer-reviewed psychiatric journal in the U.S., with a monthly readership of more than 65,500 primary care physicians and psychiatrists.
Founded in 1994, MBL Communications, Inc. is the independent publisher of the monthly journals Primary Psychiatry and CNS Spectrums, as well as Psychiatry Weekly – the first weekly psychiatric news and information service in the country. With its accredited partner, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, MBL develops a wide range of educational CME programs in the CNS market including exclusive HyperCD® technology designed to capture “Live Symposia”, academic & roundtable monograph supplements, and CD-ROM based multi-media programs, as well as handbook reference guides and international editions of both journals.
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Explaining the Cognitive Enhancing Effects of Drugs that Treat ADHD
Norman Sussman, MD
The clinical use of psychostimulants to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is widespread, but the neural mechanisms responsible for their cognition-enhancing/behavioral-calming have never been adequately explained. This lack of clarity makes it more difficult to address criticisms that these drugs are not effective or are harmful. more... |
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The Obesity Epidemic, Bariatric Surgery, and the Role of the Practitioner
Christine Ren Fielding, MD, and George Fielding, MD
Obesity is about to surpass cigarette smoking as the number one preventable cause of death in the United States. In the year 2000, data showed that 435,000 Americans died from cigarette smoke and 400,000 from obesity. more... |
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In Session with Neil E. Hutcher, MD: Bariatric Surgery
Neil E. Hutcher, MD, interviewed by Norman Sussman, MD
Dr. Hutcher serves on the advisory board of the American Obesity Association. As past president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, he is proactive in issues concerning insurance coverage and medical access for severely obese patients. He was chairman of the Department of Surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital and clinical associate professor at the Medical College of Virginia and the McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Hutcher’s current practice is devoted almost entirely to the surgical treatment of morbid obesity. more... |
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