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When I took Advanced Placement psychology in high school, a few subjects stuck out to me as being intuitive. I was weirded out by this because the majority of school lessons were not intuitive. Math, chemistry, and biology are logical and scientific, but I don’t naturally understand cells, or how compounds interact with one another. […]

After years of dormancy, psychiatric drug development is showing signs of life. There is the novel antipsychotic lumateperone, recently approved for adults with schizophrenia. Brexanolone was approved last year for postpartum depression. And perhaps generating the most attention lately among psychiatrists — and people with depression — is the use of ketamine and esketamine for

Shipping busts can be even more exciting than shipping booms. When spot rates crash, debt comes due, vessels are arrested, bankruptcies pile up and vultures swoop in. But not all shipping collapses are so action-packed. Sometimes things never devolve into total crisis mode. Sometimes the market gets stuck in limbo — like tankers are now.

India tennis star Sania Mirza has opened up on her battle with depression and how she had issues with mental health after she had to pull out of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Sania Mirza had retired with a wrist injury against Czech Republic’s Iveta Benesova in the first round of the 2008

IMAGE: Jonas Svensson, postdoc researcher Center for Psychiatry Research Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet view more  Credit: Lou Almskog Low levels of serotonin in the brain are seen as a possible cause of depression and many antidepressants act by blocking a protein that transports serotonin away from the nerve cells. A brain imaging study at

iStock/Ryan J. Lane It has been decades, but Rahn Bailey, M.D., can still remember what his eighth-grade football coach told one of his teammates whose hand was injured after it got caught between two helmets during a play. “Stick it in the mud,” Bailey recalled. “That speaks to this idea that boys and men are

Intravenous ketamine may be safe and effective in adolescents with treatment-resistant depression, according to a small study in the American Journal of Psychiatry. As previously demonstrated in adults, a single ketamine infusion dramatically reduced depressive symptoms in adolescents after 24 hours relative to those who received a control infusion. These improvements lasted for at least

Late life depression (LLD) is a common condition for older adults in the US and might help predict the risk of cognitive impairment. A team, led by Emily Burns, BS, University of California, San Francisco, examined whether anxiety and depression help forecast self-reported cognitive complaints rather than objective cognition with a poor agreement between self

Anaclitic depression usually refers to social-emotional, physical, and intellectual impairment that can happen when a baby has been separated long-term from their mother or primary caregiver. Learn more about this condition and its symptoms, as well as the research behind what contributes to it, below. A quick dictionary search tells you that “anaclitic” involves feeling

Ketamine, a controlled substance referred to as a party drug by those who abuse it, is now being used in authorised clinical settings in Singapore to treat patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who are not responding well to other forms of treatment. Esketamine has been approved by the authorities and used to treat two