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 […]
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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
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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
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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
After more than 120 years, baseball’s all-time mark for no-hitters in a season is in serious danger of falling. There have been six already in 2021—and it’s only late May. At this rate, baseball will match the record of eight by the All-Star break, reaching a number last seen in the prehistoric baseball days of
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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
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Loneliness is a risk factor for overall mortality and conditions such as stroke and heart disease. It is also associated with depression and anxiety. And with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been great concern about increased isolation and its effect on loneliness and other mental health conditions. For older adults who are more socioeconomically vulnerable,
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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
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By Vin Gurrieri · May 27, 2021, 3:54 PM EDT A Georgia school district rightly fired a teacher whose threats of violence worried school officials despite the fact that she suffered from depression, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday, saying employers don’t… To view the full article, register now.
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He was a very efficient judge. In his report to Laurel’s City Council in 1926, he claimed to have “tried cases and imposed fines amounting to $1,173.00, which has been turned in to you, and for which I hold the cancelled checks.” Considering that most fines were a dollar or two (or less), that’s quite