Psychiatry got its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerned itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or ...

The first modern psychiatrist Phillipe Pinel supervised the removal of chains from the mentally ill at the Paris Bicetre and Salpetriere hospitals at the end of the 18th century. He improved living ...

ORLANDO -- Neuropsychiatric events among children after starting montelukast (Singulair) for allergy and asthma treatment were more likely for those who had a history of comorbid psychiatric ...