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| AAGP Board Election — Submit your vote today!
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Votes must be submitted by Friday, January 4, 2019. For more information, please go to www.AAGPonline.org/BoardElection.
| AAGP 2019 Award Recipients – Congratulations to all!
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- Barry Lebowitz Early Career Scientist Award – Sanjeev Kumar, MD, FRCPC
- Jeanne Jackson-Siegal Clinician of the Year Award – Susan K. Schultz, MD
- Distinguished Scientist Award – Mary Ganguli, MD
- Educator of the Year Award – Rajesh Tampi, MD, MS, DFAPA
- Member-in-Training Research Award – Ellen Lee, MD
| 2019 Call for Research Posters & Oral Presentations
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Oral presentation, early investigator, and new poster abstracts must be submitted by 11:59 PM on Monday, October 22, 2018.
| Donate today to the AAGP Scholars Program
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We are accepting donations for the Scholars Program. The amount of money we receive directly influences the number of Scholars we are able to invite. It is important we encourage the next generation of medical students and residents to consider careers in Geriatric Psychiatry. Deadline to donate is November 1, www.aagponline.org/donatescholars.
| AAGP 2018 Annual Meeting Session Recordings
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Are available for purchase at https://bit.ly/2xa0r4J and offers a maximum of 47 CME credits. Purchase today to receive the Self-Assessment Exam component for a limited time only (expires 12/31/2018).
| Boards Coming Up in October? iGPSAP 2017: The Internet Geriatric Psychiatry Self-Assessment Program
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The Internet Geriatric Psychiatry Self-Assessment Program is great to help you prepare for subspecialty certification or recertification examinations and is approved for 42 Self-Assessment CME credit hours by ABPN. For more information go to, www.aagponline.org/iGPSAP
TIME
Tens of millions of Americans struggle to sleep at night, and many of them turn to sleeping pills for relief. Prescription and over-the-counter sleep aids are especially popular among older adults. A recent study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry found that roughly one in three adults ages 65 to 80 use these drugs at least occasionally to fall asleep, and OTC meds like Benadryl and Tylenol PM are the pills of choice for sleepless seniors.
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Psychiatry Advisor
In individuals with multiple sclerosis, depressive symptoms are more disabling than symptoms of anxiety, and therefore require priority for treatment, according to results of a study published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Depression and anxiety are common in patients with MS and contribute to the overall morbidity of the disease.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Poststroke depression (PSD), which affects up to one-third of all stroke patients, is the most common psychiatric disorder to emerge after an acute stroke. Because PSD can presage poor outcomes, including longer hospitalizations and functional impairment, clinicians are seeking methods to identify PSD with more specificity than current measures and at an earlier stage of the disorder.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 Fibromyalgia, one of the most common pain conditions, affects about 10 million adults in the U.S. About 75-90 percent of those with this condition are women, and most are diagnosed during middle age. One study of 1,269 Danish women with fibromyalgia showed that the suicide risk was 10 times that of the general population. Although the cause of fibromyalgia remains unknown, the disorder can be effectively treated and managed. A recent study showed that fibromyalgia patients who regularly visited their physicians or healthcare providers were much less likely to attempt suicide than patients who do not regularly see their physicians.
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Forbes
Depression is all too prevalent in the U.S., and gone untreated, can result in some very negative consequences. In the recent year we have seen some tragic consequences of depression, so finding a way to combat it on a global level is of great significance. Researchers at MIT found a way to use neural networks to recognize speech patterns in people that are indicative in depression.
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The New York Times
At more than 20 medical schools in the United States, students are getting an earful — about life, about perspective — from healthy seniors.
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IOS Press via ScienceDaily
In a breakthrough human study, anti-oxidant, glutathione (GSH), which protects the brain from stress, has been found to be significantly depleted in Alzheimer's patients compared to normal subjects. As GSH is a very important anti-oxidant that protects the brain from free radicals, the findings give us another measure to use when diagnosing potential for the advancement of Alzheimer's disease or recognizing those that are in the throes of Alzheimer's advancement.
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