Pyschiatry
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 […]
Neuromodulation and Psychiatry 3.0: Will devices be the next frontier in mental health?
As seen in Psychology Today. Neuromodulation has been a fast-growing area of medicine for at least a decade. Despite becoming an increasingly common way to treat chronic pain, neurological disorders, and even psychiatric conditions, it still represents a paradigmatic shift in the thinking of many clinicians for whom lifestyle changes, drug therapy, and psychotherapy […]
