Depression and Bipolar Blog Posts

 

Ketamine Short Term Treatment Strategies

What are the best strategies for using ketamine to treat major depression in the short term? Although we know that ...
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Depression Resilience and Neural Connectivity

Much has been written about risk factors for depression but we know less about depression resilience factors. Why do some ...
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TMS Predictors of Outcome in Bipolar Depression and Unipolar Major Depression

What TMS predictors of outcome in bipolar depression and unipolar major depression can we use to identify those who are ...
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Shared Gene Expression in Mental Disorders

Four distinct psychiatric disorders – autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression – have shared gene expression, according to research published online Feb ...
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Specialty Care for Bipolar Matters

Bob Post (one of the most eminent psychiatrists of our time) published a passionate article in the March 2018 edition ...
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Brain Training for Bipolar

Cognitive problems are the rule rather than the exception for people with bipolar disorder and so the idea of brain ...
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Maintenance TMS

A patient with treatment resistant depression and an excellent initial response to TMS asked me about the value of maintenance ...
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State and Trait Brain Function in Depression

Understanding the neurobiology of depression involves more than just knowing about serotonin, we need to know how state and trait ...
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Long Term Effects of Ketamine

One of my patients asked me what the long term effects of ketamine are. She was particularly interested in long-term ...
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Reduced Gene Expression in Reward Center is Linked to Depression

Researchers from the University of Maryland have conducted a series of experiments in mice and humans leading them to conclude that ...
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