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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment. TMS therapy is the first FDA-approved, non-invasive antidepressant device-based treatment clinically proven for treatment of depression. Psychiatrists at Rush University Medical Center were among the first to test the technique...
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Bipolar Wellness Writer (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
One of the best things a psychiatrist ever said to me during a depressive episode was when he told me to ignore my feelings because, "It's the depression speaking."And while it's difficult to do, it's terrific advice. For those of you who've experienced a severe depression, you know that everything changes when you're depressed, and it changes again when you're not.While it's already November...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24 minutes ago
I agree with the government for sacking Professor David Nutt, who is telling people that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes (" Ministers face rebellion on drug chief's sacking ", News). I have manic depression, diagnosed after I had my first breakdown, aged 15. Twenty four years on and I am still suffering. Cannabis has been instrumental in my affliction. I smoked my first...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
By BOB HERBERT NYT The authorities will deal with Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is accused of bringing the nightmare of mass murder into the sanctuary of a military base on American soil. But the rest of us need to look very closely at the stress beyond belief that is being endured by so many other men and women in the armed forces — men and women who are serving gallantly and...
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Care For Women (Free subscription) | yesterday
Statistics and medicine always some link between them in the Western medical philosophy, the numerical analysis paradoxically, making it easier to identify and generalize the patients. Stocks are divided by sex, age, and then still demography, all in an effort to find out which groups have a higher risk of developing that disease. U They are numbers used to analyze whether the remedy will be effective...
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Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Two recent studies report risks associated with anti-depressant and other psych med use during pregnancy and how that impacts offspring. First, a Norwegian study appearing in the British journal BJOG looked at 38,602 kids born between 2000 and 2005 and...
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Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Treatment, not incarceration, should be the first option for veterans who commit nonviolent drug-related offenses, a group advocating alternatives to the nation’s “war on drugs” said Thursday in a new report.The Drug Policy Alliance report also called on government agencies to adopt overdose prevention programs and policies for vets who misuse substances or take prescription medicines,...
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Corpus Callosum (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The standard wisdom in management of Major Depression, is that medication plus psychotherapy is better that either treatment alone. Many studies have shown this. But this one does not. Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy and Brief Supportive Psychotherapy for Augmentation of Antidepressant Nonresponse in Chronic Depression The REVAMP Trial James H. Kocsis, MD; Alan J. Gelenberg, MD;...
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The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Yep this one http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/ that got 72,234 people calling on the snot muncher to fuck the fuck off. Well he got the job just because Blair pissed off to walk on water or somesuch an no one, not a single person ever got the chance to vote on Cyclops. Anyway No.10 has replied http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21213 The Prime Minister is completely focussed on restoring the...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
From a slew of new brainwave toys and bionic monkeys to advanced brain scans and wireless neuro-implants that will soon enable paralyzed people to remotely operate computers with their minds, the gap in the human-machine interface is closing. But while mind-reading gets all the glory, other researchers are developing new amazing non-drug methods to control the brain as well. We've posted many times...
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Vertopia (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Opinion NY Times Happy Days: Kierkegaard on the Couch By Gordon Marino Published: October 28, 2009 Have we lost the distinction between psychological and spiritual disorders, between depression and despair? All progress paves over some bit of knowledge or washes away some valuable practice. Within a few years, e-mail and Twitter moved the art of letter writing to the trash bin. And in an age when...
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Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Mendelsohn Retiring Madison County Associate Judge Ralph Mendelsohn won't be kicking back and relaxing after he leaves the bench in December. Mendelsohn, 66, is already searching for work in private practice. Mendelsohn's Dec. 21 retirement was announced last month by Chief Judge Ann Callis' office. Mendelsohn said in an interview with the Madison County Record Tuesday that he was retiring before...
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baithak (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A new work advancing a radical theory of the motivation behind suicide bombers is almost bizarrely off the mark. Stitching together thought and observation from disparate and often dissonant sources, Georgetown theology professor Ariel Glucklich’s book would be laughable were he not a consultant to the defense community. Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven By Bruce...
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bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A 64-year-old woman with recurrent major depression has been seeing a community psychiatrist for about a year. She has had a moderately good response to an antidepressant and monthly supportive therapy. At her most recent visit, the patient was visibly distressed when she came into the office and began crying soon after she sat down. [...]
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Leaders in the Study of Allosteric Modulation to Discuss Latest Research at Allosteric and Orthosteric Modulator Congress Arrowheads 2010 Allosteric and Orthosteric Modulator Congress, scheduled to take place in Philadelphia, PA on January 25 and January 26, 2010, will highlight key developments in the field of allosteric and orthosteric modulator drug discovery and clinical development. Minneapolis,...
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wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Under the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, a refugee is a person who has left the country of their nationality ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion’ and is unable or unwilling to return. In the UK, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied...
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ifp | 02/06/2009
The people of Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur (PACA) are being consulted on a name change for the region. Tired of being responsible for an acronym, the President of PACA Michel Vauzelle has decided it is time to change the name of the region, and he has sought the views of its inhabitants to help him decide. He has barely made a secret of the fact that his own personal preference is the more economical
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