Addressing gaming, gambling and internet addiction in young adults
The Mass General Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS) addresses gaming, gambling and problematic digital technology use in young adults.
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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.
The Mass General Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS) addresses gaming, gambling and problematic digital technology use in young adults.
In a double-blind, randomized, cross-over study of adults who use cannabis regularly, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital assessed participants’ brain activity under the influence of THC (the main psychoactive component in cannabis) versus placebo.
Study finds that altered states of consciousness associated with yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and other practices are common, and mostly positive or even transformative, but that for some people, they can be linked to suffering.
Early intervention is critical to prevent progression of CB-PTSD, a disorder that may carry serious health consequences for as many as 8M women a year worldwide.
Elyse R. Park, PhD, MPH is the lead author of a recently published study in the Journal of Oncology Practice, Health Insurance Navigation Tools Intervention: A Pilot Trial Within the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
A survey found recovery community centers are welcoming environments for people who take medications for opioid use disorder.
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.