by Sue Robbins | Nov 3, 2019 | Miscellaneous
In recent years, the off-label prescription of antidepressants for the treatment of chronic pain has increased, along with evidence of their effectiveness and mechanistic underpinnings when used for this purpose. Depression is a common comorbidity among patients with...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 1, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Scientists have long been trying to find out why some people do not respond to antidepressants. Now, new research suggests that it may be possible to predict how well a person with depression will respond to medication by analyzing scans of their brains. The research...
by Sue Robbins | Mar 8, 2015 | Headache Drugs
In a 3-year study of 5,000 patients with moderate or severe depression, doctors from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City found that those treated with antidepressants appeared to have lower rates of death, coronary artery disease and...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 21, 2014 | Headache Drugs
New research has found that increasing fatty fish intake may be a way to improve the response rate among depressed patients who have not found antidepressants to be beneficial. Said lead researcher Roel Mocking, “we were looking for biological alterations that...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 21, 2013 | Headache Drugs
While one in five Americans take at least one psychiatric medication, our country is facing a crisis in new drug breakthroughs. Dr. Richard A Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College believes the drugs available to patients with...
