TMS for Psych Disorders Poses Little Threat to Implanted Cardiac Devices
(MedPage Today) -- An electromagnetic therapy for depression shouldn't damage a person's pre-existing implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), multiple experiments indicated. There was a low risk of ICD damage or overheating during transcranial... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise
(MedPage Today) -- Aducanumab (Aduhelm) infusions combined with focused ultrasound led to lower cerebral amyloid-beta levels in Alzheimer's disease, a proof-of-concept trial showed. The investigational treatment involved creating an opening in... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

At-Home Electrical Stimulation Fails to Treat Major Depressive Episodes
(MedPage Today) -- Unsupervised, at-home use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was no better than a sham control for treating a major depressive episode, a randomized trial showed. The PSYLECT trial of 210 adults in Brazil showed... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Ethics of Palliative Psychiatry; 4-Year Lybalvi Data; 'Dry January' Psych Benefits
(MedPage Today) -- Canada is bracing for a controversial new law that will allow doctors to help people with mental illness end their life. (New York Times) Is palliative psychiatry for anorexia ethical? (New York Times) Pennsylvania Sen. John... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Overhauling Our Mental Health System
(MedPage Today) -- In this exclusive video, Eric Reinhart, MD, a political anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and medical resident at Northwestern University in Chicago, discusses the "Treatment Not Trauma" campaign. This initiative by the Chicago... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Novel Alzheimer's Trials Evaluate Senolytics, Semaglutide, CRISPR, and More
(MedPage Today) -- In July, we reported that lecanemab (Leqembi) won full FDA approval to treat Alzheimer's disease. In this article, we look beyond anti-amyloid agents like lecanemab to see what other targets are being studied to prevent or treat... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

'They See a Cash Cow': Corporations Could Consume $50 Billion of Opioid Settlements
(MedPage Today) -- The marketing pitches are bold and arriving fast: Invest opioid settlement dollars in a lasso-like device to help police detain people without Tasers or pepper spray. Pour money into psychedelics, electrical stimulation devices... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

U.S. Attempts to Get Its Xylazine Problem Under Control
In this report, we follow up on what has happened since doctors first started raising concerns about this contaminant and its effects. Early in 2023... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Providing Telemedicine in War Zones
(MedPage Today) -- In this interview, Brandon Welch, MS, PhD, founder and CEO of doxy.me, explains why telemedicine is so important in high-conflict environments. Part 1 of this interview can be viewed here. The following is a transcript of his... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

On the Health Docket for the Supreme Court's 2024 Term
(MedPage Today) -- Throughout the year, Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LLD, and Sarah Wetter, JD, MPH, have weighed in on several major Supreme Court cases and decisions affecting American health and healthcare. As part of our series looking ahead to... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Autism Aggression Sensor; Psychiatry Top Telehealth Spender; Mid-Stage Wins, Losses
(MedPage Today) -- A wearable biosensor paired with machine learning predicted aggression in psychiatric inpatient youths with autism 3 minutes before it happened. (JAMA Network Open) Psychiatry had the highest share of telehealth spending, making... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Mind of the 'Maestro': Inside the Head of Leonard Bernstein
(MedPage Today) -- In the new Netflix movie "Maestro," the 20th-century composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein comes alive as a high-energy force of nature -- a genius who transforms the world but is tortured by his desires. What was going... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Young-Onset Dementia Tied to New Risk Factors
(MedPage Today) -- Four new risk factors for young-onset dementia were identified in the prospective U.K. Biobank study. Orthostatic hypotension, vitamin D deficiency, high C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and social isolation emerged as new risk... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

988 Lifeline Getting Mostly Good Reviews
In this report, we follow up on what has happened since then. The federal government-backed 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline launched... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Can Residents Flourish? Managing Common Foot and Ankle Conditions
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - December 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news