People who quit antidepressants slowly, by gradually decreasing the dose, are much less likely to suffer a relapse, according to Baldessarini et al. in the American Journal of Psychiatry.They describe a large sample (400) of patients from Sardinia, Italy, who had responded well to antidepressants, and then stopped taking them. The antidepressants had been prescribed for either depression, or pani
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September 14, 2010
Stopping Antidepressants: Not So Fast
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July 20, 2010
Monitoring Stress During A Real-Tme War To Refine PTSD Therapy
Psychologists aren't usually called to the battlefield, but the 2008-09 Gaza War gave Tel Aviv University researchers a unique picture of how anxiety manifests during stressful situations. In a new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Prof...
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December 19, 2009
Elderly Most At Risk For Major Depression Identified By Study
University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression. The researchers, led by Jeffrey M. Lyness, M.D., professor of Psychiatry at the Medical Center, reported their findings in an article in the December issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry...
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December 18, 2009
Two Drugs Are Better Than One?
According to a study just out in the American Journal of Psychiatry, starting depressed people on two antidepressants leads to much better results than starting them on just one - Combination of Antidepressant Medications From Treatment Initiation for Major Depressive Disorder. But how reliable is it?Currently accepted practice is to prescribe one antidepressant to begin with, and if the patient
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November 22, 2009
Another Drug to Treat Drug Addiction
Today I was going to blog this paper, which says that you can predict which kids will grow up and be criminals by measuring their Pavlovian fear conditioning at age 8. In Mauritius. But The Last Psychiatrist already said everything I was going to.Luckily, there's another article in the American Journal of Psychiatry about crime in a tropical country for me to write about - Randomized, Double-Blin
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November 18, 2009
20-Year Study Shows Lack Of Fear In Children Precedes Adult Crime
Persons convicted of serious crimes by age 23 did not have the normal heightened response to cues associated with loud, unpleasant noise when they were tested at 3 years of age, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
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November 3, 2009
Final destination, Golden Gate Bridge
There's a remarkable article on the world's most popular suicide spot, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, in the latest American Journal of Psychiatry.The article has several case studies of people who have died from jumping from the bridge and some fascinating snippets from one of the few people who have survived their attempts.It is full of curious snippets of information, and one of the clear
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June 19, 2009
Study Finds Association Between Sudden Death And Stimulant Medications Among Children And Adolescents
Researchers found support for an association between the use of stimulants and sudden unexplained death among children and adolescents, according to a study released today by The American Journal of Psychiatry. The rate of stimulant use among 564 children and adolescents whose sudden deaths were attributed to cardiac dysrhythmia or unknown causes was 1.8 percent, compared to 0.4 percent for you
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Study Finds Association Between Sudden Death And Stimulant Medications Among Children And Adolescents
Researchers found support for an association between the use of stimulants and sudden unexplained death among children and adolescents, according to a study released today by The American Journal of Psychiatry. The rate of stimulant use among 564 children and adolescents whose sudden deaths were attributed to cardiac dysrhythmia or unknown causes was 1.8 percent, compared to 0.4 percent for you
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May 5, 2009
Bordeline Personality Disorder, The Last Decade
The American Journal of Psychiatry has three articles on borderline personality disorder by some of the leading experts. Mostly about the development of the concept which is sumarized by Otto F. Kernberg and Robert Michels as:…we have made tremendous strides in only a few decades, beginning with a theoretical concept in psychoanalysis that was ridiculed [...]... Kernberg, O., & Mic
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