Long-Term Psychotherapy Changes Prefrontal-Limbic Function
In the first neuroimaging study of changes in the limbic system and prefrontal cortex caused by long-term psychotherapy, researchers in Germany and the United...
âDoctors Say Exercise Can Relieve Depression Symptomsâ
âDoctors say one of the best anti-depressants isn't even a drug, it's exercise,â CNN reports. âExperts say many cases of depression can be treated effectively with, for example, a pair of running shoes.â
Why Nutritional Psychiatry is the Future of Mental Health
From The Independent: The role that nutrition can play in improving our mental health is often overlooked. Research suggests that we should devote more resources to dietary...
“Mental Illness: is ‘Chemical Imbalance’ Theory a Myth?”
Canada's The Star traces the "chemical imbalance" story's fall from bedrock scientific principle to marketing device, at the same time that a $70 billion...
Climate Change Puts Cambodians at Risk of Mental Health Issues
From Eco-Business: Many Cambodians are still healing from a tragic recent past, from the Lon Nol regime in 1970 to the collapse of the Pol...
Fast-Food and Commercial Baked Goods Cause Depression
Researchers in Spain followed 8.964 subjects who had never been diagnosed with depression followed for over six years, finding that consumers of fast food...
New Bill Targets Asian-American, Pacific Islander Community
From NBC News: Representative Judy Chu recently introduced the Stop Mental Health Stigma in Our Communities Act, a bill to reduce mental health stigma in...
Depression, Stigma, and our Toxic Culture
From Medium: Often after the suicide of a public figure, there is an increase in articles published attempting to destigmatize depression by categorizing it as...
“Why is Depression Incidence Increasing?”
-Was life better in the past, or is there some other reason depression is increasing?
âIllness Inflationâ
The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel presents an interactive infographic detailing the pharmaceutical industryâs involvement in the promotion of several psychiatric disorders, including adult ADHD, binge-eating...
Your Instagram Posts May Hold Clues to Your Mental Health
From The New York Times: New research suggests that Instagram users who have been diagnosed with depression tend to post darker, bluer, and grayer photos...
âMore Patients in Scotland Given Antidepressantsâ
The BBC reports that the number of people in Scotland taking antidepressants has increased by 5% in the past year with most of the patients being women and those in the poorest parts of the country. âWe are now looking at the flabbergasting statistic of more than one in seven people in Scotland being prescribed antidepressants this year,â Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said. âWe urgently have to look at better alternatives than simply parking people on medication in the hope things don't get any worse, with no aspiration for complete recovery."
Lawsuit Over a Suicide Points to a Risk of Antidepressants
From The New York Times: The recent trial of Wendy Dolin, whose husband died of suicide after starting the antidepressant paroxetine, demonstrates our need for more...
The Issue of Over-Diagnosing in Psychiatry
From The Concordian: On October 30th, Dr. Joel Paris, a professor of psychiatry at McGill University, gave a lecture about the dangers and consequences of...
âSweat is the Best Antidepressantâ
The University of Toronto recently opened a Mental Health and Physical Activity Research Centre to work with individual students, and to study the link...
âPoliticians and Experts Meet at Parliament to Explore Record Antidepressant Prescribing and Disabilityâ
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence is meeting today, May 11th, to discuss evidence of the link between the rise in disability...
Major Depressive Disorder and âthe Confusion of TonguesâŠâ
The 1 Boring Old Man blog discusses how MDD started as a âDescriptor, then became a Disorder, then became a Brain Disease, and now seems have...
Lack of Sleep May be a Cause of Mental Health Conditions
From Live Science: A new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry found that participants who completed an online cognitive behavioral therapy program specifically for insomnia experienced...
âHow Should You Grieve?â
Andrea Volpe, for Mosaic Science, explores the condition of complicated grief and how new approaches to therapy are treating it.
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Woman Shares How Coming Off Antidepressant Ruined Her Life
From Metro: Originally prescribed the antidepressant Venlafaxine for migraines and persistent low moods, Tabitha Dow shares some of the persistent, debilitating symptoms she continues to...
âThe Myth of the Ever-More-Fragile College Studentâ
âThe point, overall, is that given the dizzying array of possible factors at work here, itâs much too pat a story to say that kids are getting more 'fragile' as a result of some cultural bugaboo,â Jesse Singal writes in response to the flurry of recent think pieces decrying the weakened resolve of today's college students.
The Virtual Couch: Is Online Therapy Going Viral?
From Alternet: Applications that provide online counseling, such as BetterHelp and Talkspace, are increasing in popularity. While some studies support the effectiveness of virtual therapy,...
“Largely Ineffective and Potentially Harmful”
In this interview for SciLogs, Dr. Michael P. Hengartner critiques the current research on antidepressant drugs and the state of biological psychiatry.
"One has to realize...
Corporations Want to Cure Depression in the Workplace
The Ottawa Citizen has published two feature stories exploring a growing collaboration between scientists involved in the US National Institute of Mental Health-funded brain...
When Algorithms Are Running the Asylum
From Neo.life: The emerging discipline of computational psychiatry, which aims to use machine-learning algorithms to recognize patterns of mental distress and identify treatments that may be...
