Depression
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Opioid crisis offers poignant lessons for public health
Dr. Dinah Miller says experiments addressing the crisis must be contained while ascertaining what works and what doesn’t.
Hard Talk
A prescription for ‘deprescribing’: A case report
Deprescibing can be performed safely and effectively, according to Dr. Nicolas Badre.
What Your Patients are Hearing
Family estrangement: Would mutual respect make a difference?
Estrangement might be more common today because times have changed.
MDedge Psychcast
Rural suicidality and resilience
Addressing suicide in rural communities presents unique challenges.
From the Journals
Naltrexone/ketamine combo may reduce depressive symptoms in MDD/AUD patients
Depressive symptoms improved 57%-92% overall. In addition, four of the five patients reported improvement in alcohol craving and consumption.
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Depression Across the Spectrum of Mood Disorders: Advanced Strategies in Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
What Your Patients are Hearing
Mental health patients flocking to emergency departments
Some physicians worry that EDs have become the medical refuge for many people with mental illness.
From the Journals
Gender, racial, socioeconomic differences found in obesity-depression link
“Though major lifetime depression is less prevalent among African Americans, those who are obese should be screened for depression at similar...
MDedge Psychcast
Masterclass: Major Depression with Joseph Goldberg
A masterclass edition with Dr. Joseph Goldberg.
From the Journals
White matter volume reduced in first-episode depression
The normalization of white matter might have been caused by treatment normalization or attributable to lack of study power, the investigators...
What Your Patients are Hearing
Liquid nicotine in e-cigarettes could prove more addictive; gratitude tied to less anxiety, depression
The image of inhaling the vapor from electronic cigarettes – vaping – is presented by some as an innocuous substitute to smoking traditional...
From the Journals
Antidepressants tied to greater hip fracture incidence in older adults
In the year after initiating antidepressant therapy, a 3.5% incidence rate for hip fractures was found, compared with 1.3% in the control group....