https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/893083?nlid=121889_4641&src=WNL_mdplsfeat_180417_mscpedit_wir&uac=27343DV&spon=17&impID=1609946&faf=1 I hope the reader can access this article. Basically, it says that Vitamin D is overblown, massively, 100 fold over 10 years and for no good reason. It sounds like you have to be very careful at or above 4000 Iu a day, and probably scant evidence it does any good. It increases risk […]
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http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4482/presentation/6407 Case to eat like a king in the morning and a pauper in the evening.
http://alert.psychnews.org/2018/04/study-challenges-halting-antipsychotics.html This study is strong indication to keep people on antipsychotics indefinitely! Reduces mortality risk, studied up to 16 years.
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-018-1685-z Fascinating article in reputable journal arguing for mineral deficiencies as a way to understand and treat depression. Might mean reconsidering supplementation studies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804335/ Another article (of several) looking at psychiatric illness and micronutrients. Seems plausible, safe, and well tolerated. This study was with children. Still I need to be clear that these results SHOULD […]
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https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17091006?utm_campaign=email&utm_source=etoc&utm_medium=textlink&utm_content=ajp Bad news for borderline personality disorder and lamictal; this was a negative study!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27388574?dopt=Abstract Amazingly, Lithium inhibits glycogen synthase, an enzyme used in cancer; therefore, lithium lowers the risk of cancer in bipolar disorder, by an average of 25%. Not bad
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/894534?nlid=121554_4502&src=wnl_dne_180329_mscpedit&uac=27343DV&impID=1593604&faf=1 Outcome of this Scandanavian study is clear: over 75 year old patients need to be very very slowly switched, if at all, on their antidepressants. Plus, use of anxiety and sleep medications at the same time increased risk even further! Caution.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/894447?src=WNL_recnl_180402_MSCPEDIT_psych&uac=27343DV&impID=1597737&faf=1 Guideline: if stabilized in hospital on 10mg Olanzapine or Risperdal 4mg, can function well x next year on 5mg and 2mg respectively with no increase risk of relapse! Less side effects, good outcomes. Good to consider.
This is the beginning of 21st century treatment of depression: I am hopeful we can find cortical structures that have been shrunk (i.e. in a way, injured) by a severe depression, in order to neuromodulate them (with rTMS, ECT, or TCMS) to repair it. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2675370?utm_source=undefined&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=032818#.WrxsFvRNvfI.email — This message was sent by joriswiggers@gmail.com via http://addthis.com. Please […]
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