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“When you treat a patient holistically, you not only treat the symptoms, you work with the patient on eating healthy, staying away from alcohol and drugs, and focusing on exercise as medicine,” says Rachel V.F. Rohaidy, M.D., a psychiatrist at Baptist Health Primary Care and medical director of The Recovery Village at Baptist Health. “I’m […]

Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person’s risk of major depression by 23 per cent, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The study of 840,000 people, by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, represents some of the

Magic mushrooms are seen in a grow room in the Netherlands in this 2007 file photo. Peter Dejong | AP Entrepreneur Dick Simon has never shied away from speaking up about business topics other CEOs might find too stigmatized to touch. He has spent years dedicated to improving U.S. business relations with Iran, and more

Early recognition, referral, and treatment of common mental health conditions such as these can not only improve quality of life for patients but also help prevent complications of cooccurring behavioral health and medical comorbidities while reducing overall health care costs.1 Being familiar with the common systemic and ocular associations with mental illness along with being

Highlight Among individuals with healthy kidneys, those with more frequent depressive symptoms were more likely to show signs of rapid kidney function decline over a median follow-up of 4 years. Washington, DC (May 28, 2021) — In a study of adults with normal kidney function, those who had frequent depressive symptoms were more likely to

Evolving Management Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression – Episode 11 May 27, 2021 Steven P. Levine, MD , Angelos Halaris, MD, PhD, APA, ACNP, CINP Angelos Halaris, MD, PhD, APA, ACNP, CINP , Lisa Harding, MD , Patricia Ares-Romero, MD, FASAM Patricia Ares-Romero, MD, FASAM Additional variables that require consideration if treating appropriate patients with treatment-resistant

Evolving Management Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression – Episode 13 May 27, 2021 Steven P. Levine, MD , Angelos Halaris, MD, PhD, APA, ACNP, CINP Angelos Halaris, MD, PhD, APA, ACNP, CINP , Lisa Harding, MD , Patricia Ares-Romero, MD, FASAM Patricia Ares-Romero, MD, FASAM The appropriateness for initiating psychotherapy, either alone or in combination with

Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person’s risk of major depression by 23%, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published May 26 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The study of 840,000 people, by researchers at University of Colorado Boulder and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, represents some of the strongest

A massive genome-wide association study (GWAS) of genetic and health records of 1.2 million people from four separate data banks has identified 178 gene variants linked to major depression, a disorder that will affect one of every five people during their lifetimes. The results of the study, led by the U.S. Department of Veterans

Woebot Heath, a developer of relational technologies and tools to support mental health, has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Device Designation to the company’s digital therapeutic for the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD).  WB001 is an investigational digital therapeutic, delivered over eight weeks via a patient’s smartphone, that combines cognitive behavioural