“Trial and error” remains the basis for care of people who have recently been diagnosed with psychosis, and “poor outcomes are common,” say a team of researchers at the University of California,…
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Researchers have used brain scanning technology to confirm a relationship between levels of a common type of receptor and the risk for suicidal thinking in people with post-traumatic stress disorder…
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It may soon be possible to make individualized treatment plans for different subsets of patients with treatment-resistant major depression, using a type of non-invasive brain stimulation therapy…
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Psychiatry, says Dr. Daniel Pine, is at a crossroads. The two crossing paths can be labeled “clinically-focused diagnosis” and “patient-oriented biological understanding” of mental illness. Beginning…
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Psychiatry, says Dr. Daniel S. Pine, “might achieve a needed paradigm shift” by adopting a research approach used in other branches of medicine, an approach called “experimental medicine.” It…
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