UK AD-SMART platform trial speeds Alzheimer disease treatment discovery by testing multiple repurposed drugs at once across NHS sites, aiming to protect memory and quality of life.
|Articles|September 29, 2011
Jacob Freedman Bio
PT Blogger
Advertisement
Jacob L. Freedman, MD, is a resident in psychiatry at The Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program in Boston, Massachusetts.
He is a graduate of The College of William and Mary and The University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has written and lectured on a broad range of topics- spanning psychiatry, professional ethics, and Jewish history-and has also published creative fiction. His clinical interests include first episode psychosis, community psychiatry, integrated therapies, and medical education. His non-academic interests include basketball and Middle Eastern cuisine. He can be most easily reached at:
Advertisement
Related to this article
When an antidepressant seems to stop working, the patient’s deterioration is real. The explanation may be less certain.
The evidence points toward an overall protective effect in adult cohorts and no increase in completed suicide in younger populations.
A psychiatry resident and APA Diversity Leadership Fellow explains how social history, open talk about stigma, and bilingual videos can widen access to care.
Phase 2 data show RAP-219 eases acute bipolar mania with significant YMRS gains and encouraging tolerability, setting the stage for FDA talks and phase 3 plans.
Explore evolving ethical challenges of long-acting injectable antipsychotics, weighing relapse prevention against coercion, stigma, incentives, and racial equity in clinical practice.
Neurocrine launches a phase 2 trial of once-daily NBI-'567, testing a selective muscarinic agonist to boost cognition in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease.
Review finds ADHD drugs may ease perimenopause brain fog and improve daily focus, but objective cognition gains remain unclear; larger safety and efficacy studies needed.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Trending on Psychiatric Times
1
The Psych Consult: TSH Testing in New-Onset Depression. An Endocrinologist’s Guidance for Psychiatrists
2
ADHD Medications for Managing Menopausal Brain Fog: Improvements in Subjective Executive Function
3
New Phase 2 Data on Bezisterim for the Treatment of Long COVID
4
When Antidepressants Stop Working: Understanding Tachyphylaxis in Clinical Practice
5