Taking certain antidepressants for depression is linked to a greater risk of subsequent mania and a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder, according to a new study published in the online journal BMJ Open. The strongest link was …
Watch this short video regarding ADD and PTSD treatment options that I made during the filming of my new television special, On the Psychiatrist's Couch…
On our clinical palliative care service at the San Francisco VA we have also observed PTSD symptoms escalating near the end of life. As VJ notes in her essay, many of the medications we use in palliative care can lead to …
They treat depression as if it were caused by a chemical imbalance: Pump in more of one key ingredient, or sop up another, and you will have fixed the problem. Beck_BR-2 Prepared: One day, soldiers heading into combat could be … “I really do think stress is to mental illness as cigarettes are to heart disease,” says Gerard Sanacora, the psychiatry professor running the ketamine trial at Yale. The theory describes stress grinding down individual neurons gradually, as …
Depression is the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 30 percent of Americans at some point in their lives. But despite half a century of research, ubiquitous advertising, and blockbuster sales, …
