Mental Health
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NAM offers recommendations to fight clinician burnout
A National Academy of Medicine report provides a roadmap for both broad and targeted efforts to address clinician burnout.
Commentary
Will changing the names of psychiatric medications lead to better treatment?
Dr. Robert T. London wonders whether the new Neuroscience-based Nomenclature Project will be good for patient care.
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Drug crisis continues to evolve beyond opioids
Primary care physicians “are well intentioned but underprepared and may miss some of the drug misuse risks affecting their patients,” says the...
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Certain diabetes drugs may thwart dementia
COPENHAGEN – Intriguing findings from a Danish national registry study.
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The Health Impacts of Comorbid PTSD and MDD
Researchers dive into recent literature of how one’s health can be effected by PTSD and major depressive disorder, and find multiple areas are at...
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Retraining Working Memory to Reduce PTSD Symptoms
Using working memory allows for the daily function of learning, reasoning, and comprehension, but its role in managing anxiety...
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Firearm-related deaths show recent increase
Mortality from suicides and homicides began to rise in 2015.
Commentary
Preventing suicide in the military
Dr. Cam Ritchie discusses the many efforts taken by the military aimed at suicide prevention.
Commentary
The VA Ketamine Controversies
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Few antidepressant adverse effects backed by convincing evidence
"The results showed that the association ... was not supported by robust evidence and that the underlying disease likely inflated the findings...