Blogs Posts on "Antidepressants"

Yule-be-glad, Available In Pharmacies Everywhere by b0ll0cks Rants and Other Spectacles on Nov 20, 2009After the post on the Holiday Hustle Is On and Christmas Music, I was thinking about the make believe Yulebeglad pill. The X-mas pill that removes holiday stress. So I made a Yulebeglad advertisement. Please excuse my basic paintshop skills .Also Ava...

Abstract: Change in cognitive functioning following acute antidepressant treatment in late-life depression by Anxiety Insights on Nov 19, 2009Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009 Oct;17(10):881-8. Change in Cognitive Functioning Following Acute Antidepressant Treatment in Late-Life Depression Culang ME, Sneed JR, Keilp JG, Rutherford BR, Pelton GH, Devanand DP, Roose SP. Department of Psychology...

Abstract: Fluoxetine-clonazepam cotherapy for anxious depression by Anxiety Insights on Nov 18, 2009Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 2009 Nov 5;doi:10.1097/YIC.0b013e32833205a4 Fluoxetine-clonazepam cotherapy for anxious depression: an exploratory, post-hoc analysis of a randomized, double blind study Papakostas GI, Clain A, Ameral VE, Baer L, Brintz C, S...

Told It's a 5-Month Wait to See A Psychiatrist? Tips on What to Do Next to Get Help for Postpartum Depression by Postpartum Progress on Nov 17, 2009After I wrote last week about my opinion that women with postpartum depression should try to seek out a specialist for treatment, I heard from a family physician in a major metropolitan city who told me that her patients now need to wait 5 months to...

Fight for Preemies: How Treated & Untreated Depression During Pregnancy Can Lead to Preterm Birth by Postpartum Progress on Nov 17, 2009Today is Fight For Preemies Day, hosted by the March of Dimes. More than 400 bloggers across the country are writing about prematurity, and how important it is for babies to make it full term before they are born. Why is preterm birth a problem? Beca...

Johns Hopkins: Antidepressant Medication “Poop Out” by Anxiety Insights on Nov 11, 2009What it is, what to do about it...

Psychiatry's dirty little secret by Anxiety Insights on Nov 10, 2009Scott Mendelson, MD When I was in medical school, I learned one of psychiatry's dirty little secrets. That is, that of people prescribed an antidepressant to treat their Major Depression, only about 25% enjoy complete resolution of symptoms, another...

Abstract: Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy and brief supportive psychotherapy for augmentation of antidepressant nonresponse in chronic depression by Anxiety Insights on Nov 4, 2009Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009;66(11):1178-1188. Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy and Brief Supportive Psychotherapy for Augmentation of Antidepressant Nonresponse in Chronic Depression - The REVAMP Trial Kocsis JH, Gelenberg AJ, Rot...

Before Prozac: The troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry by Anxiety Insights on Nov 3, 2009Am J Psychiatry 166:1302-1303 Book Forum by Edward Shorter. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 320 pp. Brown WA.According to Edward Shorter, one of the unfounded decisions that created grim consequences for the public health was the premature a...

[UK] NICE advises GPs to prescribe anti-depressants for sub-clinical depression by Anxiety Insights on Oct 30, 2009By Nigel Praities Huge numbers of patients with mild but sub-clinical symptoms of depression will be eligible for drug treatment under controversial new NICE guidelines. Antidepressants are now to be advised in all patients with mild symptoms of depr...