electroconvulsive therapy

SAHA Enhances Synaptic Function and Plasticity in Vitro but Has Limited Brain Availability in Vivo and Does Not Impact Cognition.

SAHA Enhances Synaptic Function and Plasticity In Vitro but Has Limited Brain Availability In Vivo and Does Not Impact Cognition.

PLoS One. 2013; 8(7): e69964
Hanson JE, La H, Plise E, Chen YH, Ding X, Hanania T, Sabath EV,… Continue reading

What’s It All About – Topic: Understanding, Preventing, and Curing Depression

What’s It All About – Topic: Understanding, Preventing, And Curing Depression
Session 7 By Nickolas Vassili “WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT” is a classroom devoted to the art and science of understanding and expressing human emotions, and learnin…


 

 

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Opportunities for Reversible Inhibitors of Monoamine Oxidase-a (RIMAs) in the Treatment of Depression.

Opportunities for reversible inhibitors of monoamine oxidase-A (RIMAs) in the treatment of depression.

CNS Spectr. 2012 Sep; 17(3): 107-20
Lum CT, Stahl SM

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) may be implicated in 33–57% of depression cases. The currently available effective treatments… Continue reading

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Maintain Treatment Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy in Depression: A Case Series.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to maintain treatment response to electroconvulsive therapy in depression: a case series.

Front Psychiatry. 2013; 4: 73
Noda Y, Daskalakis ZJ, Ramos C, Blumberger DM

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most effective treatment for a… Continue reading

GALLERY, VIDEO: The Rebel Behind the Mercury's Cartoons

GALLERY, VIDEO: The rebel behind the Mercury's cartoons
Despite the best drugs modern medicine has to offer and 20 sessions of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), bipolar episodes "still come to visit like some annoying, unwanted relative". His decline is unusually swift… Continue reading

Distressed Personality Without a Partner Enhances the Risk of Depression in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease.

Distressed personality without a partner enhances the risk of depression in patients with coronary heart disease.

Asia Pac Psychiatry. 2012 Dec 5;
Lim HE, Lee MS, Ko YH, Park YM, Han C, Joe SH

Cultural differences in the combined… Continue reading

Evaluation of Effect of Allopurinol and Febuxostat in Behavioral Model of Depression in Mice.

Evaluation of effect of allopurinol and febuxostat in behavioral model of depression in mice.

Indian J Pharmacol. 2013 May; 45(3): 244-7
Karve AV, Jagtiani SS, Chitnis KA

To evaluate the effects of allopurinol and febuxostat on depression using Forced… Continue reading

Images in Electroconvulsive Therapy: Pilot Impressions Suggesting That ECT Reduces Excitatory Synapses in the Basolateral Amygdala.

Images in electroconvulsive therapy: Pilot impressions suggesting that ECT reduces excitatory synapses in the basolateral amygdala.

Indian J Psychiatry. 2013 Apr; 55(2): 204-5
Khaleel N, Ravindranath R, Sagar BK, Andrade C

In animal models, stress and depression are associated… Continue reading

Do You Believe ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) Is Effective in Treating Depression?

Question by almintaka: Do you believe ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) is effective in treating depression?
In recent years, ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) as a treatment for severe depression is being used by a growing number of Psychiatrists. The modern technique includes the… Continue reading

S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Augmentation in Patients With Stage II Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder: An Open Label, Fixed Dose, Single-Blind Study.

S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Augmentation in Patients with Stage II Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder: An Open Label, Fixed Dose, Single-Blind Study.

ScientificWorldJournal. 2013; 2013: 204649
De Berardis D, Marini S, Serroni N, Rapini G, Iasevoli F, Valchera A, Signorelli M, Aguglia E,… Continue reading