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Blood testing for mood disorders may help the medical community come up with better treatments for the conditions. Currently, there are no blood tests for mood disorders. And relying on patients to rate the severity of their symptoms and on
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Background Despite a number of reviews advocating psychotherapy for the treatment of depression, there is relatively little evidence based on randomised controlled trials that specifically examines its efficacy in older people. Objectives To examine the efficacy of psychotherapeutic treatments for
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To examine data for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients in serodiscordant relationships to determine a) if depressive symptoms were associated with sexual risk behavior and b) if these relationships could be explained by changes in partner satisfaction. The relationship between
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Despite the fact that it has long been recognised that narcissism can contribute to depression, we have become accustomed to referring to depression mostly in terms of a neurotic disturbance. The author highlights the difference between the narcissistic elements in
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Abstract OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated whether quality improvement programs for depression would be effective among substance misusers and whether there would be a differential program-by-comorbidity effect. METHOD: A group-level randomized controlled trial (Partners in Care) compared two quality improvement programs
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ABSTRACT The effectiveness of screening and organisational strategies to improve the recognition and management of depression in primary care published in a recent issue of Effective Health Care is reviewed. Depression is the second most common cause of disability worldwide.
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Multiple sclerosis patients who smoke marijuana in search of symptom relief are more likely to suffer cognitive shortfalls and mood disorders, new Canadian research suggests. A slowing down in the ability to process and remember information is one significant side
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We seem to be in an ongoing analysis of why people lie … First, clients to therapists. And now we bring you a well-written, in-depth article in yesterday’s New York Magazine about why kids lie. The findings from one of
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A new study suggest elevated levels of anxiety may cause women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), the most common form of non-invasive breast cancer, to overestimate their risk of recurrence or dying from breast cancer. “Although DCIS typically is
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The authors are employed by the Medical Research Council at the Social, Genetics, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, part of the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK. James Cole (pictured) is an experimental psychology graduate from the University of
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Background: Atypical antipsychotics are increasingly used in the treatment of a broad spectrum of psychiatric disorders. There is evidence that in addition to treating the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, as well as mania in bipolar disorder, these agents
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Background Chlorpromazine and haloperidol are benchmark antipsychotic drugs. Both are said to be equally effective when used at equivalent doses, but have different side-effect profiles. Objectives To compare the effects of haloperidol and chlorpromazine for people with schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like
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