Trauma and depression?
Scott made a comment a couple of days ago that most PTSD symptoms could be subsumed into depression. This month's British Journal of Psychiatry has a systematic review of the risk of depression...
View ArticleHow do psychiatric disorders remain?
Psychiatric disorders tend to cause disability and they impair one's ability to function. But this varies from disability to disability. One would expect the more disabling conditions to disappear. But...
View ArticleWhich outcome you report matters.
This is an example of how you can play with data to get a positive result: and also that with major amounts of money in a study you better get a positive result. It comes from a large multicentre trial...
View ArticleYour cellphone as a ‘therapist’.
I have been aware of the use of internet based CBT, including the development of cellphone apps, for about a decade. We are now at the meta analysis stage of evaluating this technology. I would suggest...
View ArticleWhat antidepressant matters.
When you do acute, crisis, community or inpatient psychiatry, you are using medications that in overdose can be risky. Moreover, you are working with people who have a tendency to overdose. So what you...
View ArticleWatch this neuroimaging space?
Some of the tools we have coming out of the Magnetic Resonance Suite look attractive, such as high resolution diffusion imaging. On a population basis, you can see the difference between normal,...
View ArticleGenetics of depression show sexual dimorphism?
The genetics of depression has been an interestly difficult problem. In this paper, which is long, complex, and well worth reading, post mortem brain samples are used to demonstrate differential...
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