I just saw this, tweeted by Annabel Bentley in London. David Tredinnick, a conservative politician in the UK made an “Early Day Motion” (appropriate, really):
That this House welcomes the double-blind study conducted at the outpatient clinic at Jundiai Medical School in São Paulo, Brazil, which consisted of patients with moderate to severe depression; notes...
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With a side-order of lamentation over shoddy reporting.
This post was sparked by a piece in the NZ Herald this morning about the suicide of a young man in Auckland. This of course was a tragic event, and one that his mother is understandably having great trouble coming to terms with. However, the article’s sub...
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I was asked on Twitter:
When did depression stop being an emotion and start being a mental illness? #seriousQuestion
This is a really important question, and topical too, given the ever-increasing prescriptions for antidepressants written and filled throughout much of the world, and recent studies casting doubt on the efficacy of those medications (there are problems with...
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In the shower just now I was musing idly about antidepressants and the placebo response …. As you do.
Some studies show that bipolar depression responds less well to antidepressant medication than does unipolar depression. Some find that it responds as well or even better. Conflicting results like those are always odd, but there are...
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Treating depression during pregnancy – the current state of play
The management of depression during pregnancy: a report from the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Yonker KA et al – General Hospital Psychiatry 31 (2009) 403–413
Depression is a serious illness, characterised by a pervasive and persistent loss of interest...
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