Research Spotlight: Nationwide Survey on Recovery Community Centers for Substance Use Disorder
A survey found recovery community centers are welcoming environments for people who take medications for opioid use disorder.
Learn more about the activities of the clinicians and researchers in the Department of Psychiatry.
February 20-23, 2022
Attend this conference on substance use disorders to hear the latest research and find guidance that enhances your care for patients. The agenda focuses on a broad update across the spectrum of substance use disorders. Sessions cover neuroscience to developmental perspectives, and all the way through recovery-oriented systems of care. Our faculty share their experience as both clinical caregivers and research experts.
March 18-20, 2022
Complex challenges and evolving guidelines are changing the way you care for young psychiatric patients. These areas include new diagnostic criteria, patient-centered care models, new trends in substance abuse, research advances on genetics, and much more. It is more important than ever to find education that not only covers all these topics, but is also innovative, engaging, and empowers you to reach improved outcomes.
That's why it's critical to attend this hands-on, comprehensive conference. It provides psychiatrists, pediatricians, primary care and family practice physicians, nursing professionals, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals with insights to optimize your assessment, treatment, and management of child and adolescent patients with psychiatric conditions.
The Psychiatry Academy is dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare through innovative and effective education, and implementation and dissemination research. We provide international leadership in education and dissemination of best practices in mental health.
Through the Psychiatry Academy, you can access continuing medical education courses and live conferences on the full spectrum of topics in psychiatry.
U.S. News & World Report rates Mass General Psychiatry among the top in the nation.
We provide care for patients of any age throughout the lifespan.
Advances in Motion highlights the latest breakthroughs, research and clinical trials from Mass General.
A survey found recovery community centers are welcoming environments for people who take medications for opioid use disorder.
Conventional trauma-focused therapies and midwife-led counseling appear most promising.
Researchers studied how feelings of shame affected different parts of the hepatitis C treatment process, like starting treatment, sticking to it, finishing it, and reaching a sustained virologic response (SVR).
Although childbirth is a happy event, a significant portion of American women have complicated and even traumatic deliveries, which can result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a different condition than postpartum depression.
Researchers found a brief self-report screening tool that collects information about a woman's emotional reactions to childbirth can detect those likely to experience childbirth-related PTSD.
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Neuroscience Advances in Motion is an update for health care professionals from specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital on research and clinical advances in psychiatry, neurology and neurosurgery.