New data presented at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting suggests a benefit to combining L-methylfolate, a prescription medical food called Deplin®, with an antidepressant at the start of treatment...
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May 26, 2010
January 27, 2010
Treating Depression By Stimulating The Pleasure Center
Even with the best of available treatments, over a third of patients with depression may not achieve a satisfactory antidepressant response...
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December 8, 2009
Antidepressant May Change Personality While Relieving Symptoms
Individuals taking a medication to treat depression may experience changes in their personality separate from the alleviation of depressive symptoms, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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November 18, 2009
One Pill Makes Your Libido Larger
It's every man's dream - a pill to make women want more sex. According to Boehringer Pharmaceuticals, that dream could be a reality in a few years, in the form of the strangely-named flibanserin. But is it the latest wonder-drug or just a glorified sleeping pill? Read on.Flibanserin was originally developed as an antidepressant, but in clinical trials against depression it reportedly failed to pe
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October 30, 2009
October 21, 2009
The birth of the ‘psychic energizer’
With uncanny echoes of modern interest in 'cognitive enhancers', a 1958 edition of Popular Science hails a new drug that "tunes up the brain" allowing us "to perform at peak efficiency all the time".The drug is iproniazid, marketed then as Marsilid. It was the first ever antidepressant, but the concept of an 'antidepressant' had yet to be created by the pharmaceutical companies and instead it is
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October 9, 2009
Antidepressant Use in Children With Cancer
In 2007, cancer was diagnosed in 10,400 children and adolescents under the age of 15 years.1 While cancer remains the second leading cause of death in children, increasing numbers of children with cancer are surviving into adulthood.2 Over the past 30 years, 5-year survival rates for children with cancer have significantly improved, from 59% in 1975 to 1977 to 80% in 1996 to 2004.3 Pediatric canc
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August 6, 2009
Antidepressant use has increased in the United States while psychotherapy use has decreased: Is this a healthy trend?
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. When I am contemplating my next article, I use a variety of resources to aid in my decision making process. At times, I reflect on things I have read in the past that I think...
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June 2, 2009
Study: Antidepressants do not help autistic children
June 01, 2009 CHICAGO - An antidepressant that is among the most popular kinds of medicine used for treating autism didn't work for most kids and caused nightmares and other side effects, new research found.
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