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As Use of Herbal Remedies Soars, Patients Taking These and Cardiovascular Medications May be at Heightened Risk of Dangerous, Potentially Life-Threatening Interactions

"Many people have a false sense of security about these herbal products because they are seen as 'natural,'" said Arshad Jahangir, M.D.,...

Depression and Parkinson’s Disease

The estimated prevalence of depression in PD varies according to the type of mood assessment applied (interview versus self-report questionnaire),...

Depression in Epilepsy Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches

Epilepsy and Depression – A Bi-directional RelationshipAssessing the prevalence of depression from selected clinical samples of patients with...

Developing Classification in Psychiatry - Implications of 50 Years of Progress in Psychopharmacological Therapeutics

With the criteria set out by Robins and Guze,3 psychiatry felt confident of validating its diagnostic groupings and refining the relationship...

Evidence-based Psychotherapies for Eating Disorders

This article presents information from that review regarding the psychotherapeutic interventions that were shown to be efficacious for AN, BN, and...

Looking Beyond the Monoamine Hypothesis

Monoamines, Neuroimaging and Sub-components of the Depressive Syndrome The monoamine hypothesis of depression 5 does not only propose the crucial...

Magnetic Stimulation Effective for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Patients treated with TMS may experience total remission of depression symptoms. A 50 percent improvement in depression symptoms is common.A...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Show Brain Waves Can "Write" on a Computer in Early Tests

Researchers say these findings, presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, represent concrete progress toward a ...

Regulating Stem Cell Research in Europe

Thus far, the patients the people for whom these matters hold most importance have not been involved. This means that a number of decisions have...

The Bipolar Spectrum in Migraine, Cluster, and Chronic Tension Headache

The bipolar spectrum tends to be underdiagnosed, with the full clinical spectrum being an evolving concept. The mild end of the bipolar spectrum...

The Neurology Arena In Brief - A Round-up of Trends, Statistics and Clinical Research

The GPDS questioned more than 1,900 physicians, PD patients and care-givers about how the disease affected them. It found that around half of PD...

Treatment and Monitoring Guidelines for the Patient with Bipolar Disorder

Choosing the appropriate medications to treat both hypomanic and depressive symptoms can be difficult, as many new second-generation antipsychotics...

Treatment Strategies and Tactics for Treatment-resistant Depression

The recent National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) study showed that...

US Food and Drug Administration Medical Device Research Considerations

The same basic regulations from the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) apply to all clinical investigations of medical devices. These include 21...

WFSBP Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Bipolar Disorders Part I - Treatment of Bipolar Depression

Together with increasing evidence of associated genetic polymorphism, e.g. in the expression of genes encoding for transporters and receptors of...

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