Category Archives: Mood Disorders

Heritable Variation, With Little or No Maternal Effect, Accounts for Recurrence Risk to Autism Spectrum Disorder in Sweden – Biological Psychiatry

Autism is inherited. There doesn’t seem to be much about fetal or postnatal environmental influences. That should relieve unnecessarily guilt, for sure. http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(17)31991-1/fulltext?{$trackingTag}&elsca2=email&elsca3=0006-3223_20180401_83_7_&elsca4=Psychiatry/Addiction Medicine|Neuropsychiatry|Pharmacology

The Future: Woebot, a text based psychotherapy that is AI. And it works, Stanford study.

Well, as one psychiatrist put it: we’re going to need Woebot; we may be out of a job. Check out the Stanford study here: https://mental.jmir.org/2017/2/e19/ And get the APP on Appstore, searching for Woebot. It’s free. It does CBT, don’t expect psychoanalysis, but apparently Woebot really helps; and your “therapist” is available, 24/7.

Bipolar Depression diagnosed with CRP levels and predicts use of celebrex

Plasma C-reactive protein levels in bipolar depression during cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor combination treatment Journal of Psychiatric Research — | February 15, 2018 Edberg D, et al. – Researchers, for the first time, analyzed blood levels of the pro-inflammatory biomarker C-reactive protein (CRP) in bipolar disorder patients treated with the cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, celecoxib (CBX). Findings showed a […]
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Next chapter on antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder, A surprise!

Shvartzman Y, et al. – This trial was formulated in order to compare the rehospitalization rates of patients with bipolar disorder (BD)-I depressive episode who were discharged with mood stabilizers (MSs) and/or atypical antipsychotics (AAPs) with or without adjunctive antidepressants (ADs). Data unveiled a lower rate of and a longer time to rehospitalization due to […]
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Do Over-the-Counter Painkillers Alter Emotions, Reasoning?

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=210014&ecd=mnl_men_020718 Do Over-the-Counter Painkillers Alter Emotions, Reasoning? Latest Mental Health News TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Sure, an over-the-counter painkiller like Tylenol or Advil can help ease aches and pains, but could it mess with your thoughts and emotions, too? That’s the finding from a new review of recently published studies. The studies […]
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Interesting medical links to bipolar disorder

Obesity in patients with major depression is related to bipolarity and mixed features: Evidence from the BRIDGE-II-Mix study Bipolar Disorders — Petri E, et al. | July 31, 2017 The link between obesity and the presence of mixed features and bipolarity was gauged during this trial. It was determined that the presence of obesity in […]
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LSD or Magic Mushrooms for Terminal Illness

Serotonergic hallucinogens in the treatment of anxiety and depression in patients suffering from a life-threatening disease: A systematic review Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry — | January 24, 2018 Reiche S, et al. – Researchers investigated serotonergic hallucinogens for the treatment of anxiety associated with life-threatening diseases. Because of their anxiolytic and antidepressant properties, […]
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Botox for severe Depression

Botulinum toxin as a treatment for depression in a real-world setting Journal of Psychiatric Practice — | January 24, 2018 Chugh S, et al. – Researchers here aimed at furthering knowledge regarding the efficacy of glabellar botulinum toxin (BTX) injection as a treatment for depression in women and assessing how they could be translated to […]
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ECT for depression can be very successful and can be maintained.

Older patients (>55) with a psychotic depression and complete remission within the first four electroconvulsive therapy sessions are the ones with the best chance of remaining relapse free for at least 6 months (10% relapse rate vs. 63% others), presented by Pascal Sienaert, MD, PhD, reported at the annual congress of the European College of […]
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Medication enhanced psychotherapy

Propranolol May Help PTSD Patients Receiving Exposure Therapy While exposure therapy is recognized as one of the best strategies for treating patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), many continue to experience significant problems. A study published in AJP in Advancesuggests that patients with PTSD who take propranolol (a noradrenergic beta-receptor blocker) prior to recalling their […]
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