ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – May is Mental Health Awareness Month and coping with mental illness can be challenging, especially during this pandemic. One area mental health director offers tips on how you can cope. SwedishAmerican’s Center for Mental Health is seeing depression and anxiety rates increase due to isolation and the unknown outlook of the […]

Evolving Management Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression – Episode 9 May 20, 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 Best practices that can be applied when working with patients and

Mushroom Medicine: Cybin hopes its sublingual form of synthetic psilocybin will one day be an FDA-approved medicine to treat major depression disorder. getty Psychedelic drug development company Cybin will launch a phase two clinical trial on its sublingual formulation of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms”, for patients with Major Depressive Disorder later

Evolving Management Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression – Episode 10 May 20, 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 Requirements that healthcare clinics must satisfy to become a certified treatment

Source/Disclosures Disclosures: Barkham reports being on the editorial board of the journal published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), for which he is entitled to an honorarium, and previously being an unpaid member of the BACP Research Committee and Scientific Committee and receiving travel expenses, as well as having

Steven Levine, MD: Let us move on to discussing the practical considerations of delivering esketamine to patients and integrating this into patient care. Let us start with Angelos. Can you speak to the idea that intranasal esketamine has a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy [REMS]? Angelos Halaris, MD, PhD, APA, ACNP, CINP: Absolutely. As I

Patients’ conditions can significantly affect their quality of life in many ways. Medical professionals should be aware of how these conditions can affect patients’ mental health. Epilepsy, partly due to the nature and effects of recurring seizures, can cause psychiatric comorbidities. Major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder have been identified as

One in five Americans is affected by mental illness. You probably know at least one person who has experienced anxiety, depression or something of the like in their life. While common, it can sometimes be difficult to spot in loved ones. In fact, many of the 16 million Americans who deal with depression are left

RICHMOND, Va. — May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and everyone’s mental health was impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourteen months into the pandemic and aspects of life are now slowly returning to pre-pandemic status. That, according to psychologists, has caused a variety of symptoms called “pandemic fatigue.” Nickie Brandenberger said she and her husband

The pilot episode releasing later this month will focus on the challenges of dating with depression and will feature the voices of Dr. Susan Milstein and Sabrina Hansen, MSW, experts in the areas of sexual functioning and human sexuality education. Together they run the YouTube Channel, Decent Exposure, where they have honest conversations around most