depression
Depression among expectant mothers during and shortly after giving birth is emerging as a pressing global health issue. When it comes to treatment, medical professionals are actively exploring novel treatment approaches to address depressive symptoms in new parents, including the use of psychedelic drugs in one newly-published study. Scientists in China and the United States unveiled a promising intervention: a single low-dose injection of esketamine administered immediately after childbirth appears to significantly reduce major depressive episodes in mothers who had prenatal depression. The n...
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Emily Hollenbeck lived with a deep, recurring depressionshe likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could kill her. Both of her parents had taken their lives. She was willing to try something extreme: Having electrodes implanted in her brain as part of an experimental therapy. Researchers say the treatment —- called deep brain stimulation, or DBS — could eventually help many of the nearly 3 million Americans like her with depression that resists other treatments. It's approved for conditions such as Parkinson's di...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) may help psychiatrists predict whether antidepressants will be effective, according to a new study, which could save time for patients and improve their psychiatric care. While antidepressants can be prescribed to treat moderate to severe depression, health professionals have to wait six to eight weeks to see if there’s an improvement and change the treatment if that’s not the case. Using AI, researchers from the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (Amsterdam UMC) and Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands found a way to reduce this delay. They focuse...
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European researchers have started work on a clinical trial of psychedelics in palliative care patients. The study will investigate whether psilocybin, a compound found in magic mushrooms (or shrooms), is safe and effective in relieving psychological distress for people suffering from one of four advanced illnesses. It’s the first time the EU has funded a study into psychedelic-assisted therapy. According to the Dutch University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG), which is coordinating the trial, the European bloc has allocated more than €6.5 million to the project, called PsyPal. Clinics in the N...
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Women may struggle with mental health more than men during a divorce or separation after the age of 50, according to new research. The study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health compared the use of antidepressants among men and women during and after different types of separations, including death, divorce, or non-marital separation. Researchers notably found that women had larger increases in antidepressant use than men before a divorce or break-up and that they had fewer reductions in drug use after getting together with someone else. “Our findings suggest that the adv...
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