Sunday, May 15, 2016. APA Meeting, Atlanta GA. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say untreated mental illness has a significant negative impact on the U.S. economy and more than 75 percent believe mental health reform is important in addressing societal challenges like high suicide rates and access to care, but only [...]
A UK Population-Based Electronic Health Records Study Joseph F. Hayes, MSc, MBChB; Alexandra Pitman, PhD; Louise Marston, PhD; Kate Walters, PhD; John R. Geddes, MD; Michael King, PhD; David P. J. Osborn, PhD (JAMA Psychiatry. Published online May 11, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0432) ABSTRACT Importance Self-harm is a prominent cause of morbidity in patients with bipolar disease and is strongly associated with suicide. There is evolving [...]
Saturday, May 14, 2016. APA Meeting, Atlanta GA. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the third edition of the Practice Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults. While this latest edition represents the first full practice guideline published by APA in five years, these guidelines are seminal in that they [...]
Is Special K the Anti-Depressant We’ve Waited For? A groundbreaking study on the popular club drug shows its massive potential in treating depression, with a ketamine spray coming to market as soon as 2019. According to The Daily Beast, infamous pharma bro Martin Shkreli’s company Turing Pharmaceuticals recently inked a $95 [...]
Pfizer ($PFE) has been trying to get the FDA to take the black box warning off its smoking cessation drug, Chantix, after regulators warned that the med could be linked to serious psychiatric side effects. Now, the company is celebrating some positive study results for the drug that could work [...]
CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 Deborah Dowell, MD, MPH; Tamara M. Haegerich, PhD; Roger Chou, MD ABSTRACT Importance Primary care clinicians find managing chronic pain challenging. Evidence of long-term efficacy of opioids for chronic pain is limited. Opioid use is associated with serious risks, including opioid use disorder and overdose. Objective [...]
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDSThe New York Times Magazine4.10.16 More people are living longer these days, but the good news comes shadowed by the possible increase in cases of age-related mental decline. By some estimates, the global incidence of dementia will more than triple in the next 35 years. That grim prospect is [...]
By Trisha Suppes, M.D., Ph.D., Robert Silva, Ph.D., Josephine Cucchiaro, Ph.D., Yongcai Mao, Ph.D.,Steven Targum, M.D., Caroline Streicher, B.A., Andrei Pikalov, M.D., Ph.D., Antony Loebel, M.D. Abstract Objective: Accumulating evidence indicates that manic symptoms below the threshold for hypomania (mixed features) are common in individuals with major depressive disorder. This [...]
Medicine is full of young recruits writing veterans’ books, war stories full of hopes and fears for the next in line. As in the military, a couple of years’ service provides fodder for a thick volume, a decade enough material for a boxed set. Out of medical school for just [...]
The American Foundation for suicide prevention has announced a series of 12 short, informative videos on suicide prevention, which feature AFSP-funded researchers who participated in the prestigious International Summit on Suicide Research held in New York this past October. Co-sponsored by AFSP and the International Academy of Suicide Research, this [...]