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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 20, 20233 min read
Service Dogs Help Veterans With PTSD Lead Better Lives
Service Dog help Veterans When Ryan, 37, returned home from two deployments with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq from 2005 to 2008,...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 16, 20234 min read
As Psychiatrists, Do We Offer Hope or Do We Offer Death?
I remember what it was like to be a medical student at a well-known cancer hospital where patients were dying of cancer. In life's final...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 16, 20234 min read
Running vs Meds for Depression: Is There a Clear Winner?
Running Therapy Running therapy rivals antidepressant medication for the treatment of depression and anxiety, results of a new study...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 16, 20234 min read
Confirmed: Intermittent Use of Benzodiazepines Is the Safest Option
Intermittent Use of Benzodiazepines BARCELONA — Intermittent benzodiazepine use significantly reduces the risk for falls, fractures, and...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 16, 20232 min read
Narcolepsy Med Shows Early Promise for Adult ADHD
Narcolepsy TOPLINE: Solriamfetol ― a medication approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy or obstructive sleep apnea...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Oct 16, 20232 min read
Carl Jung - How To Be Authentic (Jungian Philosophy)
One of the most famous psychiatrist Carl Jung who developed Jungian Analysis. His approach to the human mind deferred from Sigmund Freud...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Oct 16, 20231 min read
Time Wasted Where You Could Be Productive....
How Many Hours a Day Do You Waste? Amazing video by Dr. Jordan Peterson about how productive we could be if we paid attention to the...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 20233 min read
Next Steps for Zuranolone as a Treatment for MDD
The drug’s developers respond to the FDA’s decision to deny approval and consider future directions for this indication. Information...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 20232 min read
High Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction Among Individuals With Schizophrenia
The prevalence of sexual dysfunction remains high in people with schizophrenia, but treating comorbid depression could be effective in...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 202312 min read
What Happens When There Is No Help?
My long and complicated lifelong relationship with mental health issues and mainstream psychiatry takes place across three different...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 20234 min read
Ethical Principles in Mental Health Care
Primum non nocere: above all, do no harm! KEY POINTS Autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice are ethical principles that...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 20233 min read
The Outsourcing of Mental Healthcare to the Public Sector
What can be done to restore balance in healthcare delivery KEY POINTS Mental health care tends to bring in less money than other areas of...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Oct 9, 20232 min read
Telepsychiatry Services: Way of the Future
Does psychiatry’s future lean towards online practice? Telepsychiatry is a form of telemedicine that uses telephone or video conferencing...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 20232 min read
Study Supports Efficacy of 9-Item Depression Screening in Identifying Patients at Risk for Suicide
The investigators also concluded that depression screening alone may not be sufficient to effectively identify suicide risk. October 5 is...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 20232 min read
Study Finds Esketamine Nasal Spray More Likely to Induce Remission in Treatment-Resistant MDD Than Q
“Over 32 weeks of follow-up, the percentage of patients with remission, the percentage of patients with a treatment response, and the...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 20235 min read
Single-Dose Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Major Depression
Is psilocybin a viable treatment for MDD? Researchers performed a phase 2, double blind trial of single-dose psilocybin in patients with...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 202319 min read
Real Psychiatry The reality of psychiatry rather than the perception
Are there potential problems in the latest study on antipsychotic medication reduction and discontinuation? Psychiatry A study on...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 9, 202317 min read
How to Advocate Effectively for Loved Ones Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs
The judge ordered me to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. I’d only been an attorney for just under five years and now a judge was...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 7, 202314 min read
The Suicide Police: Harm Disguised As Help
I wiped away tears and stared down at a deep gash in my arm as I typed. What I wrote would eventually become a blog post about my...
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chrisviesumalinog
Oct 7, 20233 min read
SSRI Use During Pregnancy Alters the Child’s Brain Development
In a new study in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers found that children born to mothers who used SSRIs during pregnancy had reduced brain...
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