By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week -- Current study results on Nervous System and Mental Health have been published. According to news reporting out of Durham, North Carolina, by NewsRx editors, researchers stated 'There have been a striking diagnostic inflation and a corresponding increase in the use of psychotropic drugs during the past 30 years. DSM-5, scheduled to appear in May 2013, proposes another grand expansion of mental illness.'
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research by the authors from Duke University, 'In this article, we will review the causes of diagnostic exuberance and associated medical treatment. We will then suggest a method of stepped care combined with stepped diagnosis, which may reduce overdiagnosis without risking undertreatment of those who really need help.'
According to the news editors, the researchers concluded: 'The goal is to control diagnostic inflation, to reduce the harms and costs of unnecessary treatment, and to save psychiatry from overdiagnosis and ridicule.'
For more information on this research see: Diagnostic Inflation Causes and a Suggested Cure. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2012;200(6):474-479. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease can be contacted at: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 530 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3621, USA. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins - www.lww.com; Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease - journals.lww.com/jonmd/pages/default.aspx)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting L. Batstra, Duke University, Medical Center, Dept. of Psychiat, Durham, NC 27710, United States (see also Nervous System and Mental Health).
Keywords for this news article include: Durham, Psychiatry, United States, North Carolina, North and Central America, Nervous System and Mental Health
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