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The blues ain’t nothin’ but a black crepe veil, ready to wear — Duke Ellington In 1966 the American drug company Merck launched a new marketing campaign for its antidepressant Elavil — otherwise known as amitriptyline, and still prescribed today for some kinds of physical pain, including migraine. Merck’s admen had hit upon a curious […]

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Now, more than ever before, the world is filled with extreme stress and increasing anxiety over people’s health, career, family, and safety. Studies show that Cannabidiol (CBD) could be very effective in managing anxiety, stress, and depression in several ways, too, without any side effects. Although, you may be apprehensive about trying out CBD for

In his 46 AD com­pendi­um of med­ical treat­ments, Scri­bo­nius Largus, the court physi­cian to the Ro­man em­per­or Claudius, de­scribed a pe­cu­liar way to re­lieve headache. Place a live tor­pe­do fish — the black, flat, disc-look­ing fish al­so known as elec­tric ray — on the place which is in pain, he in­struct­ed, un­til the pain ceas­es

Newswise — Screening for even mild depressive symptoms before hip fracture repair may be helpful in predicting which patients are at higher risk of developing delirium after emergency surgery, according to results of a new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine. The researchers say their findings also add to evidence that symptoms of depression

Introduction Depressive disorders are a major cause of disability, increasing the risk of premature mortality, decreasing quality of life, and creating a substantial burden on health systems. 1 GBD Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence CollaboratorsGlobal, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and

IMAGE: Shixie Jiang, MD, a third-year psychiatry resident at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, was the lead author for a study using an emerging functional neuroimaging technology, called diffuse… view more  Credit: USF Health/University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (May 4, 2021) — Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or rTMS, was FDA approved in 2008

The steep rise in COVID-19 infections has raised anxiety levels among many persons. Psychiatrists say they are seeing more people with depression and anxiety, while every psychiatric disorder is worsening in the midst of the second wave of the pandemic. The number of persons testing positive for COVID-19 in the State has been increasing daily.

Getting old is tough; few would debate that. Apart from the existential problem of facing our own mortality, aging is also tough on us physically. Our bones and muscles ache, we tire more easily, and falls become an ever more perilous threat. These symptoms of aging can appear long before retirement age, but life does

Psychiatry may be lagging behind other branches of medicine in an important way. “In the rest of medicine, as you increase the acuity you increase the number of treatments,” Nolan Williams, MD, told the attendees of the 2021 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting, but in psychiatry, “as we increase acuity we actually lose treatment