New evidence comparing weight gain under eight different first-line antidepressants finds that bupropion users are 15–20% less likely to gain a clinically significant amount of weight than users of sertraline, the most ...
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Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have established a new framework for understanding how classic antidepressants work in treating major depressive disorder (MDD), reemphasizing their importance ...
Jun 5, 2024
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During a psychotherapy session, one of my patients reported to me that the antidepressants he'd been prescribed by his GP had "killed his desire." He felt "dead inside," he told me. Unfortunately, this wasn't an isolated ...
Jun 3, 2024
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Since the 1980s, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants have been the backbone of treatment for depression and other mental health conditions worldwide, with tens of millions of annual prescriptions ...
May 31, 2024
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How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive.
May 13, 2024
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Characterized by pathological weight loss driven by restrictive feeding and excessive exercise behaviors, anorexia nervosa (AN) has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disease.
May 13, 2024
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Scientists from Nagoya University in Japan have clarified the relationship between energy levels and fertility in animals and humans. They identified signaling from serotonergic neurons as important for maintaining reproductive ...
May 8, 2024
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In a new study, a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led research team reports that social stress during adolescence in female mice later results in prolonged elevation of the hormone cortisol after they give birth. The researchers say ...
Apr 16, 2024
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More than 75% of the patients treated at the psychiatric outpatient clinic of Hospital de Base in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo state (Brazil), are women with a mean age of 45 and suffering from sadness, anxiety, and ...
Apr 11, 2024
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Most parents have experienced it: Your young child wakes up distraught, sure that the nightmare they've just suffered through is real.
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