Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

March 27, 2024

Complaints of chronic fatigue are commonly expressed by patients to both their physicians and mental health therapists. It is a rare day when one of my patients does not report that she has trouble ...

Sexual Assault and Mental Health

March 20, 2024

Social media feeds had been flooded with the hashtag #MeToo after allegations were made against some powerful Hollywood executives and actors. In a show of solidarity, women, and some ...

5 Myths About ADHD

March 13, 2024

Fifty years ago, many people had never even heard of ADHD. The idea of an available ADHD test online was clearly not yet fathomable. Many communities thought one ...

The Connection Between Traumatic Brain Injuries and ADHD

March 06, 2024

The brain is a plastic organ that changes and reacts to its environment. In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in how brain injuries can affect development well into one’s adulthood ...

How Comprehensive Screening Impacts Patient Experience

February 29, 2024

This research was conducted to evaluate how a digital screening process designed at the Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine (RCBM) impacted the patient experience, and to identify the factors which make for a successful screening program ...

Military and Mental Health

February 21, 2024

With suicide rates dramatically rising and increased attention to the violence of veterans who struggle with mental illness, the military has been under increased pressure to provide readily available access to mental health ...

Identification and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

February 14, 2024

The right diagnostic criteria are essential to correctly diagnosing bipolar. Only with a correct diagnosis can you then proceed to clinically recommended treatment. So clinicians must take as much time as necessary to diagnose the disorder ...

Preventing ADHD Under- and Over-Diagnosis With the Right Screening Tools

February 07, 2024

Importance of this research Table of Contents Welcome About the Study Methodology Findings Takeaways Mental health misdiagnosis is an ongoing problem. Research shows that ADHD is both under-diagnosed and over-diagnosed. The results ...

Telehealth and Patient Satisfaction: A Convenient Path to Better Mental Health

January 24, 2024

We believed not only that telehealth would preserve access to therapy at a time when it was highly important, but also that it could reduce the stress associated with therapy ...

ADHD and Other Mental Health Diagnoses

January 17, 2024

It's common for adults with ADHD to also have a co-occurring mental health diagnosis, according to a study published in Comparative Psychiatry. Rates of mental health disorders are significantly higher ...

Online Mental Health Assessments - Can you trust them?

January 10, 2024

If you’ve ever spent an afternoon Googling things like, “Do I have depression?” you’ve probably encountered a bevy of quizzes promising to diagnose you in just a few minutes with everything from bipolar to personality disorders ...

Coping with a Life-Changing Diagnosis

January 03, 2024

Life is a finite thing. Many of us will face a devastating diagnosis at some point—whether in the form of a chronic illness, like diabetes, a disease from which you eventually recover, like ...