blood test Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:04:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 blood test Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Simple Blood Test May Help Diagnose Bipolar Disorder https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/simple-blood-test-may-help-diagnose-bipolar-disorder/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/simple-blood-test-may-help-diagnose-bipolar-disorder/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:59:07 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=21973 Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings, from manic highs to depressive lows. It can be a difficult condition to diagnose, as the symptoms can overlap with other conditions, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, etcetera. A new study from the University of Cambridge suggests that some day a blood test could help to diagnose bipolar ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/simple-blood-test-may-help-diagnose-bipolar-disorder/feed/ 0 21973 Home Blood Draws https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/home-blood-draws/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/home-blood-draws/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:45:09 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=15313 Would home blood draws (or office blood draws for that matter) be helpful? Obtaining routine blood work can be an essential part of your treatment if you have a mood disorder and are on medications as it is very important to know the levels in your blood reached by mood-stabilizing drugs. Finding time however to get your labs done can ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/home-blood-draws/feed/ 0 15313 Another Blood Test for Depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/another-blood-test-for-depression/ Sat, 21 Mar 2015 17:36:19 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8963 We ran across a recent article that promised a “blood test for depression” and thought how strange it was that this article was being republished in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.  After all we wrote about a blood test for depression based on an article that appeared in translational psychiatry just a few months ago. Imagine my surprise when I ...

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]]> 8963 Blood Test for Depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/blood-test-for-depression/ Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:55:06 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8152 How many times has a new patient in the clinic asked, “isn’t there a blood test for depression?” Always in the past we had to say that there were no reliable tests that could identify depression. There was some evidence that functional brain imaging could do so but the technique was expensive and experimental. In an article published in the ...

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