Lolita Osorio

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Noninvasive brain stimulation promising for COVID-related smell loss

Author:: Lolita Osorio

Publish date: June 27, 2022

A small, double-blind, sham-controlled study showed that stimulation combined with olfactory training provided no...

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Clozapine and cancer risk in schizophrenia patients: New data

Author:: Lolita Osorio

Publish date: May 17, 2022

The clozapine-related risk increase was specific to hematological malignancies only.

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Does noninvasive brain stimulation augment CBT for depression?

Author:: Lolita Osorio

Publish date: May 12, 2022

More research is needed to optimize treatment synchronization to achieve synergies between noninvasive brain stimulation and psychotherapeutic inte...

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Higher ‘chemical restraint’ rates in Black psych patients in the ED

Author:: Lolita Osorio

Publish date: May 2, 2022

Black patients presenting with a psychiatric disorder were significantly more likely to receive chemical sedation than White patients presenting wi...

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Long-term cannabis use linked to dementia risk factors

Author:: Lolita Osorio

Publish date: April 15, 2022

“We saw that long-term cannabis users showed a decline in IQ from childhood to adulthood.”

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Psilocybin ‘rewires’ the brain to alleviate depression

Author:: Lolita Osorio

Publish date: April 13, 2022

“Psilocybin works differently from conventional antidepressants, making the brain ... less entrenched in the negative thinking patterns associated ...

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FDA okays first sublingual med for agitation in serious mental illness

Author:: Lolita Osorio

Publish date: April 11, 2022

With a demonstrated onset of action as early as 20 minutes, dexmedetomidine shows a high response rate in patients at both 120-mcg and 180-mcg dose...