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Targeting inflammation to treat depression

Researchers at Emory University have found that a medication that inhibits inflammation may offer new hope for people with difficult-to-treat depression. The study was published Sept. 3 in the online version of Archives of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Ibuprofen, aspirin, other anti-inflammatory drugs reduce effectiveness of SSRI antidepressants

Scientists at the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at The Rockefeller University, led by Paul Greengard, Ph.D., and Jennifer Warner-Schmidt, Ph.D., have shown that anti-inflammatory drugs, which include ibuprofen, ...

Medications created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal more effective way of testing therapies to treat depression

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers have found a new method for studying depression in rats that mirrors an aspect of the mood-related symptoms of the condition in humans. Until now, the lack of animal models ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Could an old antidepressant treat sickle cell disease?

(Medical Xpress)—An antidepressant drug used since the 1960s may also hold promise for treating sickle cell disease, according to a surprising new finding made in mice and human red blood cells by a team ...

Medical research created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study uncovers key to antidepressant response

Through a series of investigations in mice and humans, Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a protein that appears to be the target of both antidepressant drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Results ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study clarifies antidepressant contribution to arrhythmia risk

A 2011 warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about the popular antidepressant citalopram (Celexa) left many patients and physicians with more questions than answers. Now an analysis of the medical records of ...

Medications created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Glutamate neurotransmission system may be involved with depression risk

Researchers using a new approach to identifying genes associated with depression have found that variants in a group of genes involved in transmission of signals by the neurotransmitter glutamate appear to increase the risk ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biomarkers for antidepressant treatment response

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) have identified new biomarkers for antidepressant treatment response, an important step towards developing personalised ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antidepressant helps relieve pain from chemotherapy, study finds

The antidepressant drug duloxetine, known commercially as Cymbalta, helped relieve painful tingling feelings caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients, a new study finds. This is the first clinical trial to find an ...

Cancer created Jun 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antidepressant-suicide link in youths absent in new analysis

In 2004, concerns about antidepressant drugs increasing suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young patients prompted the FDA to issue a rare "black box warning." Now, a new analysis of clinical trial data finds that treatment ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reports of mental health disability increase in US

The prevalence of self-reported mental health disabilities increased in the U.S. among non-elderly adults during the last decade, according to a study by Ramin Mojtabai, MD, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise can substitute effectively as second 'medication' for people with depression

Exercise can be as effective as a second medication for as many as half of depressed patients whose condition have not been cured by a single antidepressant medication.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unethical advertising at launch of antidepressants

The new feature of the antidepressant drugs of the 1990s was that they had milder side-effects than their predecessors. Combined with aggressive marketing, this meant that annual sales in Sweden increased from just under ...

Health created May 02, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Opioids involved in most medical overdose deaths

(HealthDay)—Opioid analgesics are involved in the majority of pharmaceutical-related overdose deaths, frequently involving drugs prescribed for mental health conditions, according to a research letter published ...

Medications created Feb 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shingles vaccination is a must, says microbiologist

Terry D. Connell, PhD, knows a lot about the immune system: he's a University at Buffalo professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences who conducts research on ...

Immunology created Feb 07, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4