Where did all the Prozac data go?
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Health/article1390959.ece Paywall (Source: PharmaGossip)
Source: PharmaGossip - March 24, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
From Drugs to Brain Training: The Future of Brain Health?
Brain Training And The End Of The Prozac Generation (Forbes):
“According to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), more than 57 million people, or 26% of the U.S. population suffer from some form of mental health problem. But despite the ongoing need, one can legitimately claim that research has not produced a novel neurological drug in the past 30 years. Additionally, many drugs currently on the market have been increasingly identified with negative side effects and limited efficacy…”
“Are we moving into a post-pharmaceutical age in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric illness? If the flurry of ...
Source: SharpBrains - March 17, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology brain-computer interface Brain-health brain-stimulation Brain-Training Mental-Health neurological drug Prozac Source Type: blogs
Article: Brain Training And The End Of The Prozac Generation
Brain Training And The End Of The Prozac Generationhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/robertszczerba/2014/03/04/brain-training-and-the-end-of-the-prozac-generation-2/Sent via Flipboard******************************************************Kevin McGrew, PhDEducational PsychologistDirector, Institute for Applied PsychometricsIAPwww.themindhub.com****************************************************** (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 7, 2014 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
14 Recommended Books for Psychiatry Patients
An effective psychiatrist or psychologist will own a bookshelf stocked with recommended reading for his patients.
He will have read a host of books on various topics, from sleep strategies to marital advice, so he knows what he is recommending. My psychiatrist has compiled the following list of recommended books for patients. It may be helpful to you too.
1. “A Deeper Shade of Blue” by Ruta Nonacs. Nonacs, the associate director of the Center for Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, offers a comprehensive guide on depression during ...
Source: World of Psychology - February 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Books General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Psychiatry Psychology Relationships Self-Help An Unquiet Mind Anne Sheffield Bipolar Disorder Center for Women's Mental Health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Colle Source Type: blogs
Videos: Antidepressants — Not a Quick Fix
In a series of heartfelt videos compiled online by healthtalkonline.org alongside research conducted by the University of Nottingham and Oxford University, 30 individuals share that antidepressant medications are not a ‘quick fix.’
Contrary to popular opinion, neither are they ‘happy pills.’
The individuals discuss the impact of depression and antidepressant medications on their lives. They also talk about the emotional difficulties they faced with side effects and finding a prescription that finally helped them manage their depression.
They’re worth checking out to hear of people’s real-li...
Source: World of Psychology - December 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Emily Waters Tags: Antidepressant Depression Disorders General Medications Mental Health and Wellness Personal Psychotherapy Video Antidepressants Bupropion Headache Jenny media reports Personal Experiences professor Prozac Researcher Sel Source Type: blogs
Questioning brain health status quo in depression and Alzheimer’s
Two good recent pieces in The New York Times bring to the forefront the need to question status quo mindset and practices about how to measure and enhance brain health.
Sleep Therapy Seen as an Aid for Depression
“Curing insomnia in people with depression could double their chance of a full recovery, scientists are reporting. The findings, based on an insomnia treatment that uses talk therapy rather than drugs, are the first to emerge from a series of closely watched studies of sleep and depression to be released in the coming year…If the figures continue to hold up, the advance will be the most significant in the tre...
Source: SharpBrains - November 19, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Alzheimer’s test Alzheimers-disease amyloid cognitive behavior therapy cognitive-decline depression insomnia talk-therapy Source Type: blogs
Trip Rapid Review worked example - SSRIs and the management of hot flashes
We reported 0.31 but what does that mean? I favour trying to assign various narratives based on the score, for instance:1 >> 0.5 = Intervention is highly likely to be beneficial.0.49 >> 0.25 = Intervention is likely to be beneficial.0.24 >> -0.24 = Evidence is weak or ambiguous.-0.25 >> -0.49 = Intervention is unlikely to be beneficial.-0.5 >> -1 = Intervention is highly unlikely to be beneficial.But these could be modified based on the number of trials. For instance scores based on multiple trials is likely to be more reliable than those based on a few.Trip Rapid Reviews is ...
Source: Liberating the literature - October 2, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Medical Mispronunciations and Misspelled Words: The Definitive List.
Hearing medical mispronunciations and seeing misspelled words are an under appreciated joy of working in healthcare. Physicians often forget just how alien the language of medicine is to people who don't live it everyday. The best part about being a physician is not helping people recover from critical illness. The best part is not about listening and understanding with compassion and empathy. Nope, the best part about being a physician is hearing patients and other healthcare providers butcher the language of medicine and experiencing great entertainment in the process. Doctors c...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - October 2, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Can People Really Change?
The following is an expanded and rewritten versions of the last e-mail newsletter I sent out to my subscribers
This is only the second time I have used a newsletter as the basis of a blog post.
However, I think this is such an important message that it bears repetition and hopefully a wider audience.
My Introduction To Stress And Anxiety
Even though I can remember having issues with anxiety way back into my early teens and even earlier, it wasn’t until I got into my early twenties that it started to play havoc with my sleeping.
I was in a low stress job working in a family run business, I had my own home, no money wo...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - September 19, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: September 13, 2013
It’s not officially fall yet, but the Pumpkin Spice Latte is back at Starbucks, so, who cares?!
It’s Friday and you deserve a treat, so go grab yourself one and sit down to enjoy this week’s Best of Our Blogs.
Warning: Happiness May Be Bad for Your Health
(Bounce Back: Develop Your Resiliency ) — Happiness, bad for your health? Sounds a little off, right? However, Bobbi Emel breaks it down for us, explaining how important a role “meaningfulness” plays in our various types of happiness and — you guessed it — how that happiness affects our actual physical health.
The Power of Empowering ...
Source: World of Psychology - September 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Best of Our Blogs Breakups Chronic Pain Contentment Depression Empowerment Happiness health Inner Peace Losses Misconceptions Physical Health Positive Changes Prozac Resiliency Stages Of Grief Truth Source Type: blogs
Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime by Peter Gøtzsche
'The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 1, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Are We Medicating Normalcy?
You’ve heard it all at dinner parties, graduations, school fundraisers, and family cookouts… At least, I have, and it goes something like this:
“Psychiatry is a business that is medicating every normal syndrome out there: Too shy to ask a girl to prom? Take Zoloft for Social Anxiety Disorder…. Grieving the loss of a spouse a year after he passed away? Try Prozac for Major Depressive Disorder…. Feeling a little hyper and can’t concentrate? You need Adderall for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
“Doctors are greedy experts that are too lazy to get to the core problem and will medica...
Source: World of Psychology - August 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Disorders General Medications Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychiatry Treatment Adderall Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Cereal Bowl Core Problem Depressive Disorder Dinner Parties Elderly Source Type: blogs
Do You Understand the Bipolar Spectrum?
In modern psychiatry, there is more than one type of bipolar disorder, and patients may be told that they are ‘somewhere on the bipolar spectrum.’
This can be confusing to hear; as a newly diagnosed patient, you may wonder, ‘so do I really have bipolar disorder or not?’
According to the current, dominant model, the bipolar spectrum runs from bipolar I at one end, to cyclothymia and ‘not otherwise specified’ at the other.
You may have heard that bipolar disorder (BD) affects only one in a hundred people, but this is untrue — or only a partial truth — according to the spectrum model.
One pe...
Source: World of Psychology - August 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Hannah Leach Tags: Bipolar Brain and Behavior Disorders General Medications Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Treatment 1s Bd Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Illness Bipolar Spectrum Bipolars Cyclothymia Dominant Model Source Type: blogs
Got the Summer Blues? 5 Ideas That May Help
Picnics at the beach.
Afternoons by the pool.
Three months of summer bliss.
Or not.
For many people, the summer months are the most difficult. In fact, 10 percent of those diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder suffer symptoms at the brightest time of the year. The summer’s brutal heat, bright light, and long days can contribute to depression for the opposite reasons that the winter does. Like typical SAD, the change of light can affect a person’s circadium rhythm, which may disturb overall health and sleep patterns.
But you don’t need to suffer from summer SAD to slog through the hot days. A substantial part of...
Source: World of Psychology - August 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Amino Acids Brain Tissue Circadium Rhythm Coffee Drinkers Depression Anxiety Diet Coke Diet Soda Drink Soda Effects Of Dehydr Source Type: blogs
Are Too Many Anti-Depressants Being Prescribed?
Look, our friend Dr. Mojtabai and his study on the use of antidepressants is on the Well Blog in the New York Times! See a Glut of Antidepressants by Roni Caryn Rabin. Oh, and do read all 405 comments.
The study looks at patients diagnosed with depression in primary care setting, and many given that diagnosis do not meet criteria for the disorder, but still get prescribed anti-depressants. I wondered if some didn't meet criteria for depression because the anti-depressants were doing a good job of treating the symptoms. Unfortunately, I could find the abstract for the original article, s...
Source: Shrink Rap - August 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
