Lab Notes: Sugar Sours Memory, Fish Oil Trumps

Rats fed a sugary diet forgot how to run a maze they had previously mastered, but the effect was countered by omega-3 fatty acid supplements. Also this week: new hope for Fanconi anemia.

DSM-5: What's In, What's Out

PHILADELPHIA -- Reports here provided what may be the last public update on DSM-5, the next edition of American psychiatry's diagnostic guide, before it is formally released in May 2013.

Personality Linked to ICD Shocks

Candidates for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) with a negative personality should have a change of heart as demeanor had an impact on subsequent quality of life, a single-center study found.

Most DSM-5 Revisions Pass Field Trials

PHILADELPHIA -- Field trials of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable.

Lab Notes: Sugar Sours Memory, Fish Oil Trumps

Rats fed a sugary diet forgot how to run a maze they had previously mastered, but the effect was countered by omega-3 fatty acid supplements. Also this week: new hope for Fanconi anemia.

DSM-5: What's In, What's Out

PHILADELPHIA -- Reports here provided what may be the last public update on DSM-5, the next edition of American psychiatry's diagnostic guide, before it is formally released in May 2013.

Personality Linked to ICD Shocks

Candidates for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) with a negative personality should have a change of heart as demeanor had an impact on subsequent quality of life, a single-center study found.

Most DSM-5 Revisions Pass Field Trials

PHILADELPHIA -- Field trials of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable.