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Treatments
July 3, 2023

“Pharmacotherapy of Bipolar Depression”

Roger McIntyre gave a talk on the “Pharmacotherapy of Bipolar Depression” at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Conference in Chicago, June 22-25, 2023 -- He pointed out that, contrary to the many approved age...
Treatments
June 22, 2023

Serotonin is Back

A review by Moncrieff et al in Molecular Psychiatry 2022 concluded that : “there is no convincing evidence that depression is associated with, or caused by, lower serotonin concentrations or activity.” This was widely repo...
Treatments
May 22, 2020

New Type of Antipsychotic Drug for Schizophrenia Looks Promising

Photo by The-Lore.com on Unsplash -- In a 2020 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, researcher Kenneth S. Koblan and colleagues described a new type of antipsychotic drug treatment for schizophrenia. Almost all ...
Risk Factors
June 18, 2013

Ecstasy Use Increases Serotonin Receptors in Women

MDMA, better known as the drug ecstasy, has been found to reduce serotonin axons in animals. A small study by Di Iorio et al. published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 2012 suggests that the drug also has detrimen...