Depression

Psychiatrists may be able to contribute to the care of patients with DM by understanding this problem and its proper treatment. Here's a quiz to test your knowledge.

MAOIs deserve special consideration in the treatment of refractory depression. Here's a case in point.

What factors predispose patients to TRD and what treatment strategies achieve response? Find out here, with a bonus case vignette.

The author presents a fictionalized case based on a real patient to encourage colleagues to pursue psychodynamic psychiatry.

This article explores how motivational pharmacotherapy and motivational enhancement therapy can galvanize depressed patients to get well.

Successful culturally adapted interventions to improve adherence among Latino patients with depression and schizophrenia confirm how important it is to understand a patient’s entire sociocultural environment.

Here: a plethora of treatment options, including mood-lifting stabilizers, non-antidepressants, psychotherapy, and lifestyle interventions.

If you haven’t seen the series or heard media coverage about it, the 13 reasons are a series of 13 audiotapes made by the character, Hannah Baker, to be listened to by the 13 people she felt in some way contributed to her decision to kill herself.

If larger trials confirm the strong antidepressant effects observed so far, botulinum toxin may become a standard therapeutic addition to the psychiatric armamentarium.

In Get Out, director/writer Justin Peele’s provocative debut, the bodies snatched are African American (mostly robust males); the cannibals of consciousness are white residents of an affluent Baltimore suburb, where the living is easy and the politics fashionably progressive.

We’ve been waiting since 1953, the year chlorpromazine was introduced to the US as a revolutionary treatment for schizophrenia, for an active treatment for tardive dyskinesia that the FDA judged to be effective.

Your patient is excited to be pregnant. She is currently on sertraline, and has been stable on this for many years. She is very insistent that she would like to stop her medication. What should you do?

The looming specter of emotional and physical exhaustion in residency often takes hold well into a physician's career. So what are we doing about it?

Strong evidence supports sound arguments on each side of 3 debates covered here-so get in there and fight nice.

This article summarizes the risks of untreated psychiatric illness during pregnancy as well as the risks and benefits of antidepressant use.

Most depressed people acknowledge impaired concentration and other related symptoms-but skilled clinicians can distinguish between non-melancholic depression and melancholia. How? They ask the right questions.

What is the possibility that the very illness we’re trying to improve is getting worse-with treatment?

Psychiatrists need to understand the patient’s cancer diagnosis, staging, treatments and their adverse effects, and prognosis to appreciate the challenges the patient is coping with throughout treatment as well as survivorship or end-of-life.

From a psychodynamic and neurobiological perspective, the recommendation to screen all pregnant and postpartum women for depression and anxiety falls short of what is actually needed to improve the lives of many mothers and their infants and children.

The authors review the association between depression and violence, and the role that anger and emotional dysregulation play.

These studies shed light on the relationship between exercise and depression in children and adolescents.

The co-occurrence of depression and cognitive impairment doubles every 5 years after the age of 70. Here we present a list of elements in a comprehensive and extended evaluation of depression in the elderly.

Targeted mineral supplementation has the potential to augment treatment response and yield improvement in clinical symptoms.

Potential benefits and benign safety profile of omega-3s indicate a promising intervention.

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