“There seems to be a general liability factor, which is genetically transmitted, to having a variety of different psychiatric and neurological disorders,” says Dr. Alan Brown.
Dr. Randy Auerbach spoke with BBC World Service about a clinical trial in which his team of researchers are monitoring adolescents at risk of suicide through their smartphones (forward to 43:26).
Go Medical, in collaboration with Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, initiated the evaluation of the safety and pharmacokinetics of the OLANI for opioid use disorder.
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman and colleagues conclude that the time has come to cease the use of placebo in relapse prevention studies and encourage the use of active comparators.
“It seems that there is some evidence that nitrates and their downstream products have profound effects on the same pathways that are implicated in bipolar disorder,” Writes Dr. Drew Ramsey.
“For my money, bowing is the way to go. Graceful, respectful, it communicates so much without the slightest physical contact,” writes Dr. Deborah Cabaniss after spending some time in Japan.
Prescription medication may be enormously helpful, but "just taking a pill is usually not enough" to effectively cope with depression, says Dr. Diana Samuel.
