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• Do Antidepressants Impair the Ability to Extinguish Fear?

  
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  An interesting new report of animal research published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly called SSRIs, are a class of antidepressant widely used to treat depression, as ...
  6 days ago

• Bryan Appleyard - Psychiatry on Trial (Book Review)

  
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  Bryan Appleyard reviews two new books on the current state of psychiatry. Tom Burns seems to believe psychiatry is a human profession that has lost its way (beginning in the 1970s), while James Davies things psychiatry is " a botched discipline, a harmful, pill-popping fiasco created by callous pharmaceutical ...
  1 week ago

• Are you a neuroscientist? Happy in academia? Want to do science...

  
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  So I have been working in an entirely different field for the last years and was never entirely sure about what I wanted to do with my life. I am certain at this point that I want to work in a field which involves, you know, nervous systems. Unsurprisingly, I am thinking of academia. I was wondering if any of you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ketamine Shows Significant Therapeutic Benefit in People With Treatment-Resistant Depression

  
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  Another new study is out demonstrating the quick and effective benefits of ketamine therapy for treatment-resistant depression (i.e., the usual serotonin-based medications do not produce enough of a high to offset the depression). Here are some of the previous studies: How Ketamine Defeats Chronic Depression ,  ...
  4 weeks ago

• Linking Body and Mind - All in the Mind

  
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  Nice segment this week from All in the Mind (Radio National, Australia). Lynne Malcolm leads a discussion centered on the mind-body issue in severe mental illness, but from the healing side. An innovative mind-body program for severe mental illness can help people overcome the frequent weight-gain that comes with ...
  4 weeks ago

• Alternative Treatment Kava Shown to Reduce Anxiety

  
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  New research has shown that kava, a medicinal South Pacific plant, reduces the symptoms of anxiety and may be used as a successful alternative treatment to pharmaceutical drugs for those who suffer from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Lead researcher Dr. Jerome Sarris, from the Department of Psychiatry at the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Kids Who First Drink During Puberty at Greater Risk of Alcohol Problems

  
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  New research shows that youths who first drink during puberty are at greater risk for developing later alcohol problems. “Most teenagers have their first alcoholic drink during puberty. However, most research on the risks of early-onset alcohol use up to now has not focused on the pubertal stage during which the ...
  4 weeks ago

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