Exercise for depression: an evidence-based treatment option
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Ross Nedoma summarises the biggest review yet on exercise for depression, which strengthens the case for making exercise a key…
Ross Nedoma summarises the biggest review yet on exercise for depression, which strengthens the case for making exercise a key…
The Cochrane Collaboration was established in 1993 as an idealistic grassroots organisation with the aim of publishing updated…
In 2018, Andrea Cipriani et al. published a network meta-analysis of trials of depression pills in The Lancet. The authors…
The most effective antidepressants revealed by a review of 522 different studies involving 116,477 people.
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After Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues published their study debunking the low-serotonin theory of depression, the editor of Mad…
Clinical trials typically find that antidepressants are slightly better than placebo, at least in the short term. However, many…
El pasado 20 de julio Joanna Moncrieff y un equipo de investigadores publicaron una contundente investigación en la revista…
Three recent studies show the benefits of healthy eating, probiotics, and vitamin B6 supplements for alleviating depression and…
The chemical imbalance theory of depression is well and truly dead. A paper by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues, long-time…
We recently published a paper finding that the serotonin hypothesis of depression (the idea that depression is caused by low…
Summary TL;DR For decades people have been told that depression is caused by a serotonin deficiency. This was the rationale…
On 14 May 2022, The Lancet published the seminar, “Suicide and self-harm.” Lancet seminars are “Disease-oriented clinically…
This month was supposed to see publication of the new NICE guidelines for the treatment and management of depression in adults.
It even outperformed the 'purring' cushion!
A network meta-analysis published last month in World Psychiatry showed that psychotherapy has an enduring effect on depression—i…
It’s Still Not Fully Understood How Placebos Work – But An Alternative Theory Of Consciousness Could Hold Some…
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This week we talk with Professor Jim van Os and Doctor Peter Groot about their latest study which looks at the effectiveness of…
In May 2021, Cochrane published a network meta-analysis of depression pills for children and adolescents with depression. As…
Ross Nedoma summarises a recent systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the effectiveness of exercise-based interventions…
Lydia Poole reviews a recent Canadian study examining depression as a risk factor for physical illness and multimorbidity in a…
This is promising.
Meta-analysis challenges assumption that individual differences underlie treatment…
Worldwide, depression remains one of the most widely diagnosed disorders, and the first line of treatment in many countries is…
Antidepressants have many unknowns — from why different medications work for different people, why they take so long to work…
The results of five large-scale clinical trials of antidepressants have never been made accessible to the public, a data set…
Research examines the myths and science behind how the amino acid tryptophan, associated with turkey, affects mood.
Those smiles probably aren’t thanks to tryptophan. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com Every Thanksgiving, myths of the…
In recent years, more and more studies have found that SSRIs (commonly called “antidepressants”) are only slightly better than…
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In a piece for PLOS Medicine’s 15th Anniversary, Specialty Consulting Editor Alexander Tsai contextualizes a 2008 study on…
This week marks the tenth International Open Access (OA) Week. To celebrate OA week, we have gathered our ten most discussed…
Editor’s Note: With this column, Mad in America is launching a media-watch column. Here, MIA editor and contributing writer…
Hace poco compartimos un artículo sobre la prevalencia de los trastornos mentales en el mundo, con gráficos que ilustran la…
New research by the Nordic Cochrane Center has challenged last year’s positive study about antidepressant efficacy. The authors…
Você já ouviu falar de antidepressivos, tais como a Fluoxetina ou a Sertralina? Muita gente tem usado esse tipo de medicamento…
Você já ouviu falar de antidepressivos, tais como a Fluoxetina ou a Sertralina? Muita gente tem usado esse tipo de medicamento…
Medicações são usadas por psiquiatras para ajudar pessoas que vivem diferentes problemas, mas será que elas ajudam mesmo ou nem…
Medicações são usadas por psiquiatras para ajudar pessoas que vivem diferentes problemas, mas será que elas ajudam mesmo ou nem…
Jonathon Tomlinson considers his options as a GP supporting people with depression and complex needs, after reading a new…
Depression is a disease arising from multiple causes, including biological, psychological, and social factors. Existing…
How Long Should You Keep Taking Antidepressants? For as Long as You NEED To Brain Yapping by Dr Dean Burnett
Researchers Lisa Cosgrove, from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Allen Shaughnessy, from Tufts University, recently…
Open science, AI for researchers, and women in STEM prevail
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For some they are lifesavers, for others ineffective and even addictive. Our special report looks at why even experts disagree…
24-year-old who reduced her medication while swimming weekly in open water was drug-and symptom-free within four monthsA year…
In a new article, Michael P. Hengartner, a clinical psychologist at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, writes that…
In a BMJ commentary entitled “Pop a million happy pills?” the journal’s clinical editor, Kate Adlington, suggests that much of…
A new study, published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, found that antidepressant efficacy was not dependent on severity. The…
Cipriani and colleagues have recently published (open access, CC BY 4.0) another antidepressant meta-analysis. In this paper…
Rising deaths in neurological disorders may be associated with rising numbers of neurologists (making diagnoses). It fits with…
Ein Folgeinterview mit dem Psychologen Michael P. Hengartner
It often seems that psychiatry today, as an institution, is like a miner in the mid-1800s desperately sifting for gold. The “biol…
Sometimes there are advantages to being outside the mainstream media. Australia dodged a bullet when the UK press announced…
Telling people to eat their way to a different outlook is nothing new. Think of religious fasting. Or John Harvey Kellogg’s anti…
In this blog, I want to give some personal reflections on the events of the last few weeks in relation to the Lancet…
When you consult the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ website it proclaims that one of its primary aims is to “improve the…
I stress the word 'carefully' in the title of this post discussing the findings reported by Jakob Näslund and colleagues [1…
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New York Times Company). More people in the United States ar…
Students and Teachers from the King’s College London PNoMH Distance Learning MSc summarise a major new meta-analysis that…
A meta-analysis of existing trials suggests that the drugs are mostly effective on a short-term basis for patients suffering…
In late February, newspapers in the UK and elsewhere announced that a new meta-analysis published in Lancet had proven, once…
Authors of a major study in The Lancet have made their dataset freely available on Mendeley Data
The idea that antidepressants are no more effective than placebo has been put to rest. They clearly work when used appropriately…
The first paper, by A. Ahmed et al. in the journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (“Benefits of and Barriers to…
Researchers and advocates have continued to critique The Lancet‘s recent study claiming to prove definitively that…
Here’s the monthly summary of chemistry stories that have hit the news. This month features news on a new family of antibiotics…
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr Joanna Moncrieff. Dr Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, academic and author. She has an…
Welcome to the February High Five! We’re departing from our regular format of analyzing of the top five most mentioned papers…
The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the media routinely state that there is an “epidemic” of mental disorder—1 in 4 people…
I. The big news in psychiatry this month is Cipriani et al’s Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs…
There's a wide debate surrounding the use of antidepressants. Do they really work? If so, how well? And how do you know which…
A new major study finds that antidepressants are effective for the acute treatment of major depression. The study is considered…
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical…
Un análisis de 522 ensayos confirma la utilidad de los 21 fármacos más comunes para tratar la depresión
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A new Lancet paper about antidepressants caused quite a stir this week. Headlines proclaimed that "It's official …
On Twitter, Titus claimed homeopathy is safe and effective, while also attacking psychiatric medications and vaccines.
According to authors of a groundbreaking study, antidepressants really do work in treating depression, though some are more…
A new review of 522 different studies involving 116,477 people reveals whether antidepressants work. → Explore PsyBlog's ebooks…
Alle de 21 medikamentene mot depresjon hadde større effekt enn placebo i ny forskningsgjennomgang.
A major study comparing 21 commonly used antidepressants concludes that all are more effective than placebo for the short-term…
A study published today in The Lancet indicates that anti-depressant drugs are more effective at relieving the symptoms of…
Ученые составили список самых действенных антидепрессантов с наименьшим количеством побочных эффектов.
André Tomlin reports on a new network meta-analysis that brings together the best available evidence comparing the efficacy and…
Debate over the efficacy of antidepressants has raged for years with a torrent of studies, often quite convincingly, arguing…
Doctors hope study will put to rest doubts about the medicine, and help to address global under-treatment of depressionIt’s…