PHARMA NEWS Takeda and Lundbeck are planning a U.S. test for a depression app that will track mood, in the hopes it will improve depression treatment. The two pharma companies have teamed up with Advocate Health Care on a study that uses an app with a “conversational text interface” to track and [...]
On individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD), particularly those who experience suicidal thinking, levels of translocator protein (TSPO), a marker of microglial inflammation, are increased, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, found significantly higher levels of TSPO in patients with MDD than in healthy control [...]
By Bruce L. Rollman, Bea Herbeck Belnap, Biol Hum, Kaleab Z. Abebe Key Points Questions Is combining an internet support group (ISG) with a care manager–guided computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) program better at treating depression and anxiety than CCBT alone and better than primary care physicians’ usual care for these conditions? Findings Among [...]
Longer Lives, Better Living By Bill Gates In every part of the world, people are living longer than they used to. Thanks to scientific advancements, fewer people die young from heart disease, cancer, and infectious diseases. It’s no longer unusual for a person to live well into their 80s and [...]
Viewpoint November 6, 2017 Advance Directives for Dementia: Meeting a Unique Challenge By Barak Gaster, Eric B. Larson, and J. Randall Curtis In the coming years, an increasing number of people will experience dementia. Worldwide, the number of people living with dementia is projected to increase from 47 million in 2015 to 132 million by [...]
Is dorsolateral prefrontal cortex plasticity impaired in Alzheimer disease? Yes, according to researchers writing in JAMA Psychiatry. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex plasticity is impaired in Alzheimer disease and is associated with impaired working memory. Findings: In this cross-sectional study of 32 participants with early Alzheimer disease and 16 healthy control participants, significant [...]
Perceived Addiction to Internet Porn Examined Perceived addiction to internet pornography appears to be related strongly to moral scruples around pornography use, both concurrently and over time, rather than with the amount of daily pornography use itself, a recent study found. Participants were adults who had used pornography within the [...]
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Alan F. Schatzberg, MD Madness Rising Research into Hallucinogens Gives Hope to the Hopeless and Fuels a Drug Epidemic: A Tale of Two Disparate Worlds By James M. La Rossa Jr. Editorial Director and Publisher In Robert Stone’s influential book about the heroin trade that permeated the Vietnam [...]
Original Investigation Association of Lithium in Drinking Water With the Incidence of Dementia Lars Vedel Kessing, Thomas Alexander Gerds, Nikoline Nygård Knudsen, Lisbeth Flindt Jørgensen, Søren Munch Kristiansen, Denitza Voutchkova, Vibeke Ernstsen, Jörg Schullehner, Birgitte Hansen, Per Kragh Andersen, Annette Kjær Ersbøll Question Is a higher lithium level in drinking water associated with a decreased incidence of dementia? Findings In this Danish nationwide, population-based, [...]