Marijuana causes anxiety, panic attacks, and psychotic symptoms, but most often in first-time users, according to the Australian authors of a meta-analysis. Its effects on cognitive function are real but perhaps not permanent, they find, adding that pot may cause less severe impairment than alcohol or other drugs of abuse.
RESULT: Health Risks of Marijuana
MedPage Today | Oct 15, 2009
The news report provides a detailed summary of the results and comments from sources not involved in the study. If you’d rather read the study itself, and you have access to full text from Lancet, you can find it in the Research/Reviews category on SearchMedica.
RESULT: Adverse health effects of non-medical cannabis use
Lancet | October 16, 2009
Search: marijuana
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SEARCH TIP: New feature: Saved searches
Now you can save any of the results that you find on SearchMedica for later reference. It’s simple.
Click on the word “Save” in the last line below the title of any search result. You’ll be asked to assign a tag, or topic name, to your result.
You can save other results using the same tag, or create new tags for unrelated articles. All of your saved tags appear in the left column under “My links by tag.” You can also see links that colleagues have tagged, which appear just beneath your list of tags.
The saved results feature is available only to registered members of SearchMedica. (Searching on SearchMedica remains available without registration.)
The link for registration appears in the black bar at the top of the screen.
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OTHER RECENT SEARCHES ON SEARCHMEDICA
Search: depression measurement
RESULT: Implementing Standardized Assessments in Clinical Care: Now’s the Time
Psychiatric Services | Oct 1, 2009
Standardized scales for depression may not capture all of a patient’s symptoms and may include some measures that are irrelevant. These may be unfamiliar, time-consuming, and confusing for clinicians. Nonetheless, it’s time to begin using standardized outcome assessment in psychiatry, contends the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry in an article focusing largely on depression. It suggests some scales that may be relatively user-friendly. (Scroll down to find this result.)
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SEARCH TIP: Word order, again
To highlight an interesting result, we changed the word order of the query. What this person actually typed was “measurement based care depression.”
Remember, the electronic algorithm thinks you have put the most important word first. When creating a search term, figure out your main topic (depression) and place modifying terms (measurement based care) after it.
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Search: computer game addiction
RESULT: Predictive Values of Psychiatric Symptoms for Internet Addiction in Adolescents
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine | Oct 1, 2009
At least for kids in Taiwan, where this study took place, those who developed Internet addiction (measured by a scale created by one of the authors) had shown depression, ADHD, social phobia or hostility two years earlier. There were gender differences in the psychiatric precursors to Internet addiction that should be taken into account in interventions, say the authors.
Search: EMDR 2009
RESULT: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Neural Mechanisms Involved in Its Treatment
ClinicalTrials.gov | Jun 10, 2009
Subjects in this French trial of PTSD treatment will undergo either Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing treatment or cognitive behavior therapy.
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SEARCH TIP: Adding a date to a query
Someone has tried to limit SearchMedica’s results to the current year by adding it to the query. Why doesn’t this work? Results from 2008 and even from the 1990s appear if you scroll beyond page 1 of results.
You can find out by clicking the word “Cached” beneath any of these older results. You’ll see that many publication websites link older articles to newer articles, and these words often appear within the text (which is what SearchMedica searches for your queries).
The default setting on SearchMedica is to give high priority to publication date in ranking results. Occasionally an older article will trump a newer one because it’s more relevant to your search term. But by and large, the most recent articles will appear at the top of the list.
