Repeated intravenous (IV) ketamine infusions significantly reduce symptom severity in individuals with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the improvement is rapid and maintained for several weeks afterwards, according to a study...Psychiatry
A review of 39 randomised clinical trials by scientists from University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences and their colleagues from other institutions has found that combining the use medication with psycho-educational therapy is more...Psychiatry
A first US study demonstrated the feasibility, relative safety, and potential efficacy of psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralisation in older, long-term AIDS survivors (OLTAS).
Psychedelic-assisted therapy has been showing great...Psychiatry
Patients with early onset psychosis may benefit from treatment for depression, including with anti-depressants alongside other medication, research shows. According to scientists at the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Mental Health,...Psychiatry
A review of more than 50 clinical trials has found that psychological and behavioural therapies may serve as effective non-drug treatments for reducing disease-causing inflammation in the body. The results of the meta-analysis also show that...Psychiatry
Available data on homeopathy in psychiatric disorders are insufficient to support their use in clinical practice, found an Italian systematic review of 212 randomised control trials.
Complementary and alternative medicine critic, Emeritus...Psychiatry
People who attended religious services at least once a week were significantly less likely to die from "deaths of despair," including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning, according to new research led by Harvard TH Chan...
April 15th, 2020
A new form of magnetic brain stimulation rapidly relieved symptoms of severe depressioZn in 90% of participants in a small study conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers are conducting a larger,...
More than a third of medical staff involved in the Covid19 outbreak in China suffered from insomnia, and these sleep-deprived health workers also were more likely to feel depressed, anxious and have stress-based trauma.The study was by Nanfang...Psychiatry
The first genetic analysis of schizophrenia in an ancestral African population, the South African Xhosa, has been published. An international group of scientists conducted the research. The study of schizophrenia was carried out in the Xhosa...
February 26th, 2020
Individuals who exhibit lifelong-persistent antisocial behaviour – for example, stealing, aggression and violence, bullying, lying, or repeated failure to take care of work or school responsibilities – may have thinner cortex and smaller...
February 5th, 2020
A review of previous studies into suicide worldwide by Oxford University and the Karolinska Institutet identifies the effects of individual and environmental risk factors, as well as of the effectiveness of assessment and treatment approaches, over...
Following up on their landmark 2016 study, researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine found that a one-time, single-dose treatment of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, combined with psychotherapy, appears to be associated...
January 22nd, 2020
A Karolinska Institutet data analysis suggests that long‐term antipsychotic use does not increase severe physical morbidity leading to hospitalisation, and is associated with substantially decreased mortality, especially among patients treated...
One in six women who experience an early miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder nine months later, says a New Scientist report. As people can experience the symptoms of PTSD for months, it is important that...
November 13th, 2019
Spending an hour in talk therapy with a trained counsellor costs much more, and takes more time, than swallowing an inexpensive antidepressant pill. But for people with a new diagnosis of major depression, the costs and benefits of the two...
