by Joye C. Anestis ***Thanks to a thoughtful thread on the ABCT listserv for inspiring this post and leading me to this article.*** An important and thoughtful question often posed by clients who are experiencing some symptom relief from treatment...
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December 19, 2009
Is it going to come back?: Relapse rates after CBT and/or antidepressant treatment in major depression
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December 8, 2009
Higher Blood Lead Levels Associated With Depression, Panic Disorder In Young Adults With Low Levels Of Lead Exposure
Young adults with higher blood lead levels appear more likely to have major depression and panic disorders, even if they have exposure to lead levels generally considered safe, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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November 7, 2009
New TMS Clinic At Rush University Medical Center Offers Non-Invasive Treatment For Major Depression
Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment. TMS therapy is the first FDA-approved, non-invasive antidepressant device-based treatment clinically proven for treatment of depression. Psychiatrists at Rush University Medical Center were among the first to test t
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September 14, 2009
Researchers Develop Biomarker For Rapid Relief Of Major Depression
It is a long, slow slog to treat major depression. Many antidepressant medications are available, but no single biomarker or diagnostic test exists to predict which one is right for an individual. As a result, for more than half of all patients, the first drug prescribed doesn't work, and it can take months to figure out what does.
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September 8, 2009
Severity, Duration Of Depression Associated With Risk Of Death Among Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
Among patients with both major depression and acute coronary syndrome, those with more severe depression within a few weeks of hospitalization for a cardiac event and those whose depression does not improve within six months appear to have more than double the risk of dying over a seven-year period, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Ar
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June 18, 2009
Analysis Does Not Support Association Between Genetic Marker, Stress And Risk Of Depression
Contrary to a previous report, an analysis of 14 previous studies does not find an association between a serotonin transporter gene variation, stressful life events, and an increased risk of major depression, according to an article in the June 17 issue of JAMA. The authors did find that the number of stressful life events is associated with depression.
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May 14, 2009
Negative Mood-related Drinking May Mean Vulnerability For Major Depression And Alcohol Dependence
Major depression and alcohol dependence are strongly connected to one another. New research looks at how mood-related drinking may explain the overlapping familial risk for MD and AD. Drinking related to mood that is based on negative feelings accounted for the majority of the overlapping risk for both MD and AD that is due to genetic and familial environmental factors.
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May 13, 2009
Depressive Symptoms After Loss
In "Major Depression After Recent Loss Is Major Depression-Until Proved Otherwise" (Psychiatric Times, December 2008, page 12), Dr Ronald Pies critiques our earlier article ("An Epidemic of Depression," Psychiatric Times, November 2008, page 44) and our book, The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder (Oxford University Press). We had argued that DSM's
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Depression or Major Loss, or Both?
Why do Drs Pies, Wakefield, and Horwitz feel that "blue" feelings after a major loss (such as death of a spouse) or, for that matter, any loss have to be either "grief" or "major depression"?
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The Lure of the Context–Dependent Psychiatric Diagnosis
In "Major Depression After Recent Loss Is Major Depression-Until Proved Otherwise" (Psychiatric Times, December 2008, page 12), Dr Pies highlights one of the more provocative questions encountered when we train in clinical psychiatry: "Suppose your new patient Mr Jones, tells you he is feeling ‘really down.' He meets all DSM-IV symptomatic and duration criteria for a major depressive episode (MDE
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