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Ramelteon (Rozerem) is one of the safer sleep medications, but how well does its efficacy stack up against other hypnotics? The answer surprised us.
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Psychotherapy can work as well as medication, but can it also have side effects? Michael Linden believes it can. He launched some of the key studies that brought light to this under-appreciated phenomenon, and in this interview he shows us how to recognize and avoid them.
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Every minute counts in the 90833 “brief therapy with medication” visit, and Donna Sudak shows us how to customize CBT with pharmacotherapy for depression, bipolar, anxiety disorders, and schizophrenia.
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After digging through 3 decades of research, we can tell you this: There is no such thing as “the best” SSRI. But there are some important differences between them, and this article will show you how to find the right one for your patient.
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Two recent studies add to the mounting evidence that environmental toxins deserve a place in the bio-psycho-social-spiritual model. The first study correlated ADHD symptoms with exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in plastics, pesticides, and processed food. The second study was a meta-analysis of ultra-processed food consumption from 23 cross-sectional and prospective cohort studies.
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Antihypertensives are among the world’s most widely prescribed drugs, but many of them impact pathways associated with depression. Beta blockers have long been believed to cause depression, but most of these studies were carried out decades ago and their findings have been inconsistent.
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Dr. Aiken is the Editor in Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report; director of the Mood Treatment Center in North Carolina, where he maintains a private practice combining medication and therapy along with evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments; and Assistant Professor NYU Langone Department of Psychiatry. He has worked as a research assistant at the NIMH and a sub-investigator on clinical trials, and conducts research on a shoestring budget out of his private practice. Follow him on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.