GLP-1 medications used to treat diabetes and obesity were associated with a reduced need for hospital care and sickness absence due to psychiatric reasons, a new study shows. The large…
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Salt Lake City, UT — Lipocine Inc. announced positive progress in its pivotal phase 3 clinical trial evaluating oral brexanolone (LPCN 1154) for the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD). The…
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Bristol Myers Squibb announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation to BMS-986446, a potential best-in-class anti–microtubule binding region tau (anti–MTBR-tau) antibody currently in…
Read MoreWhat if the next leap in psychiatric treatment doesn’t come from tweaking dopamine or serotonin, but from reengineering the immune system, harnessing neuroplasticity, or refining orexin antagonism? In 2025, the…
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By mid-2025, the psychopharmacology landscape feels paradoxical: on one hand, deeply familiar challenges — slow response, heterogeneity, side effects — still dominate clinical reality. On the other, a wave of…
Read MoreWhat if the next leap in psychiatric therapeutics comes not from entirely new receptors, but from smarter targeting—or smarter delivery? From LSD-derived anxiety relief to once-weekly schizophrenia pills, this week’s…
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Key Updates Biomarker-Stratified Antidepressant ResponseA randomized trial in JAMA Psychiatry (Sept 2025) found that patients with treatment-resistant depression who carried the ANK3 biomarker had improved outcomes with liafensine, suggesting potential…
Read MoreFrom Psychedelics to Mechanism-Driven Precision: Recent Shifts in Depression Treatment What if we could reliably predict which antidepressant will work for a patient before waiting four weeks of trial-and-error? As…
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Recent changes in the legal landscape in the United States have affected access to abortion, and this restricted access has profound effects on both physical and mental health of reproductive-aged…
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The FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee is evaluating a New Drug Application (NDA) for a combination of brexpiprazole and sertraline as a potential treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If…
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