Pyschiatry
Treating Mental Illness as a Chronic Disease: Reimagining care in psychiatry.
As seen in Psychology Today. Within the last 100 years, advances in the field of medicine have been nothing short of miraculous. Our understanding of disease, anatomy, and the intricacies of the central nervous system has grown in leaps and bounds, and our ability to quickly diagnose and cure a multitude of diseases would have been considered […]
Why Depression Treatments Sometimes Fail: Major depressive disorder remains a diagnostic chameleon.
As seen in Psychology Today. A bombshell went off in psychiatry last year when Moncrieff and colleagues’ systematic review in Molecular Psychiatry concluded, “We suggest it is time to acknowledge that the serotonin theory of depression is not empirically substantiated.” Their review revealed that there is a lack of good science to support the notion […]
Is ADHD Becoming More Common?: Not necessarily, but awareness is.
As seen in Psychology Today. For many years, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was typically thought of as a condition that affected children and adolescents and remitted as they grew older, but there has been a notable increase in ADHD diagnoses in adults recently. Why is that? ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a pattern […]
