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A ‘breakthrough’ depression drug inspired by ketamine is attracting more attention from big pharma
Business Insider
After 35 years of mediocre depression drugs, pharmaceutical companies are jazzed about several new drugs inspired by the club drug ketamine. Allergan, the multinational drugmaker known for Botox, recently dove into research on an injectable depression drug. Now they're going after an oral pill.
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“Magic mushrooms” may be an FDA-approved drug for anxiety and depression in the near future
Vogue
According to a new study, psilocybin found in “magic” mushrooms, could be useful in treating anxiety and depression.
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A search engine for your memories
The Atlantic
An inventor at IBM has patented technology for a cognitive assistant that could learn all about you, then remind you of a name you can't remember the moment you need to say it.
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My adventures with the trip doctors
New York Times
The researchers and renegades bringing psychedelic drugs into the mental health mainstream.
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You can now be diagnosed with burnout
The Cut
The World Health Organization recently included burnout as a diagnosable condition in its manual of diseases/disorders. Burnout typically occurs as a result of overwork, and involves exhaustion and inefficacy at work.
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Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
The Atlantic
The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
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How drug companies helped shape a shifting, biological view of mental illness
NPR
Mind Fixers, by historian Anne Harrington, takes a hard look at the ways the marketing of a new pill to treat a mental disorder can change the way the condition is defined and treated.
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Anesthetic drug propofol shows promise in the treatment of medication-resistant depression
PsyPost
A commonly used anesthetic drug could help people with severe depression. Preliminary research published in the International Journal of ...
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A depression drug that's been called 'the most important discovery in half a century' just got a big step closer to FDA approval
Business Insider
Esketamine, a first-of-its-kind depression drug made by Johnson & Johnson, got a big nod on Tuesday from a group of experts convened by regulators.
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Inside the push to legalize magic mushrooms for depression and PTSD
Wired
Activists, entrepreneurs, and doctors in the US and Canada are working to decriminalize psilocybin psychotherapy and calling for a psychedelic revolution.
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Could psychedelic drugs treat PTSD and depression? A Q&A with Rick Doblin
TED
For decades, research into drugs like LSD, MDMA and psilocybin was banned. Now it's time to shed our old fears and fully investigate their potential for treatments that could benefit people with PTSD, depression, substance abuse, and more, says psychedelics expert Rick Doblin.
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Psychedelic medicine is coming. The law isn’t ready
Scientific American
A surprising resurgence of psychedelic research has produced its first FDA-approved treatment, with more likely on the way
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Brain molecule identified as key in anxiety model
UC Davis
Boosting a single molecule in the brain can change “dispositional anxiety,” the tendency to perceive many situations as threatening, in nonhuman primates, researchers from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found. The molecule, neurotrophin-3, stimulates neurons to grow and make new connections. The finding provides hope for new
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Are psychiatrists really ready for the AI revolution?
MIT Technology Review
The World Health Organization estimates that up to 15% of the population experiences mental health disorders. That has significant consequences. For example, suicide is the second- or third-leading cause of death for young people in most countries. And as the population ages, the rate of dementia is set to triple over the coming decades. At…
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Tim Ferriss, the man who put his money behind psychedelic medicine
New York Times
The author of “The 4-Hour Workweek” is behind a surge in funding for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.
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Johns Hopkins opening a new psychedelic research center, studying use of ‘magic mushrooms’ and more
The Baltimore Sun
Johns Hopkins Medicine is launching a new psychedelic research center aimed at studying the health and wellness uses of a class of illegal drugs that produce profound changes in consciousness in users.
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Approaching 1,000 mental health startups in 2020
Medium
I nearly died during the summer of 2018 by self-harm, addiction and unmanageable manic episodes. I had reached the end of my rope with addiction, and bipolar disorder. My family found me in a hotel…
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Stanford researchers devise treatment that relieved depression in 90% of participants in small study
Stanford Medicine
Stanford Medicine researchers used high doses of magnetic stimulation, delivered on an accelerated timeline and targeted to individual neurocircuitry, to treat patients with severe depression.
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Text messaging is the next gen of therapy in mental health, says new study
Psychreg
Ninety-one per cent of participants found the text-messaging acceptable.
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The discovery of ‘antimemories’ could revolutionize neuroscience
PsyPost
One of the most intriguing physics discoveries of the last century was the existence of antimatter, material that exists as the “mirror image” of ...
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Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Vaccine developed by Australian and US researchers may reverse dementia and Alzheimer’s
IBTimes
Experts at Adelaide’s Flinders University have made an Alzheimer’s breakthrough that may result in world’s first dementia vaccine. Developed by Australian and US scientists, this vaccine may not only prevent but also reverse early stages of Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia.
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Ice bucket challenge has led to a major ALS breakthrough
Futurism
Contributions gained by ALS research groups from 2014's 'Ice Bucket Challenge' continue to lead to new, promising discoveries.
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Experts excited by brain 'wonder-drug'
BBC
A drug for depression could stop all neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia, scientists hope.
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Researchers are using stem cell tech to end neurological disorders
Futurism
Researchers have constructed a laboratory model for a unique neurological disorder by transforming patients' own cells using stem cell technology.
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Could this drug help the brain recover after a stroke?
Los Angeles Times
New research offers the prospect of limiting a stroke’s long-term damage with a drug that enhances the brain’s ability to rewire itself and promote recovery in the weeks and months after injury.
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Alzheimer's disease damage completely erased in human cells by changing structure of one protein
Newsweek
This finding is an important breakthrough in Alzheimer's research.
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‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells implanted into patient with Parkinson’s disease
Nature
A man in his 50s is the first of seven patients to receive the experimental therapy. A man in his 50s is the first of seven patients to receive the experimental therapy.
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How virtual reality will transform medicine
Scientific American
Anxiety disorders, addiction, acute pain and stroke rehabilitation are just a few of the areas where VR therapy is already in use
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I'm testing an experimental drug to see if it halts Alzheimer's
New Scientist
Steve Dominy led a landmark study that linked gum disease bacteria to Alzheimer's disease. He tells New Scientist why we should stop treating medicine and dentistry separately
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Possible missing link in Alzheimer’s pathology identified
Scientific American
It may open the door to new treatments and explain why previous ones failed
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Low dose lithium may stop Alzheimer’s disease in its tracks
Scitechdaily
McGill researchers' findings show that lithium may halt progression of Alzheimer's disease. There remains a controversy in scientific circles today regarding the value of lithium therapy in treating Alzheimer's disease. Much of this stems from the fact that because the information gathered to date
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A drug that wakes the near dead
The New York Times
A surprising drug has brought a kind of consciousness to patients once considered vegetative — and changed the debate over pulling the plug.
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Drug actually repairs nerve damage, giving scientists hope for future MS treatment
Good News Network
The drugs metformin and bexarotene have been shown in trials to repair the myelin sheath in paitents with multiple sclerosis, or MS.
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In down syndrome mouse model, scientists reverse intellectual deficits with drugs
UCSF
Using standard animal model of Down syndrome, scientists were able to correct the learning and memory deficits associated with the condition with drugs that target the body’s response to cellular stresses.
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The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | Rick Doblin
YouTube - TED
Could psychedelics help us heal from trauma and mental illnesses? Researcher Rick Doblin has spent the past three decades investigating this question, and th...
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Could drug prevent depression and PTSD?
TED
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a serendipitous breakthrough treatment that may prevent mental disorders like depression and PTSD from ever developing. And listen for an unexpected -- and controversial -- twist.
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A psychologist is trying to use genetics to predict if therapy will work
VICE
A London-based Thalia Eley hopes to find genetic factors that could help advise patients on the best psychological treatment for them.
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Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
TED
What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do -- and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the w
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This man spends 8 hours every day commuting. He's not alone.
National Geographic
San Francisco’s high housing costs mean workers often choose to live far from the city. For Andy Ross, it’s a 240-mile round-trip.
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Nearly two-thirds of graduates planning to join the banking sector have experienced mental health issues
HR Review
New study reveals shocking statistics about the mental health of students and graduates planning to apply for a job within the banking industry in the UK.
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Report highlights the unique stressors faced by healthcare students - and it's not just Junior Doctors
Mental Health Today
The NHS Staff and Learners' Mental Wellbeing Commission has just released a report examining the mental health of healthcare students. Balancing academia with clinical practice is a struggle faced by healthcare students - and it's not just Junior Doctors who are affected.
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As nation struggles with opioid crisis, workers bring addiction to the job
USA today
A new survey found that 23% of respondents have used drugs or alcohol on the job.
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Physicians get addicted too
The Atlantic
Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.
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Magic mushrooms could replace antidepressants within five years, says new psychedelic research centre
Independent
Exclusive: ‘People on antidepressants long-term say they feel blunted, with psychedelic therapy it’s the opposite, they talk about an emotional release, a reconnection’
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Are tired, stressed men overworking themselves to early graves?
CTV News
A majority of Canadian men are so stressed out by work that they are sleep deprived, eating poorly, skipping breaks, and dragging themselves to the office even when sick - without realizing the serious damage they are doing to their health, according to a new study by the Canadian Men's Health Foundation.
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Ecotherapy: why plants are the latest treatment for depression and anxiety
The Guardian
The combination of physical activity, social contact and being surrounded by nature is thought to make gardening beneficial for our mental health
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UK training record number of mental health first aiders
The Guardian
Exclusive: Business creates surge in workplace confidantes to confront mental illness
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Silicon valley goes to therapy
The New York Times
Bummed out by the world and their role in it, tech workers are seeking help — and founding some start-ups along the way.
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Government announces initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission
TVNZ
After the initial commission has delivered its report, a permanent Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is planned to be established.
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American millennials' mental and physical health is on the decline — and they're on track to die faster than Gen X, a new report says
Business Insider
American millennials are seeing their physical and mental health decline at a faster rate than Gen X did, a Blue Cross Blue Shield study found.
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A new way to quit? Psychedelic therapy offers promise for...
WFUV
For many Americans, hallucinogens still evoke the psychedelic '60s, bringing to mind the sex-and-drugs lifestyle of the hippie counterculture.
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Auto plant closures tied to surge in opioid overdose deaths
Reuters
Opioid overdose deaths have spiked in the wake of automotive assembly plant closures across the U.S. South and Midwest, a new study suggests.
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Coronavirus: Doctors and nurses will need PTSD treatment after Covid-19 virus peaks in hospitals, warn health leaders
Independent
Expert in intensive care medicine says staff are already facing unprecedented toll on mental and physical health
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This is a historic opportunity to transform India’s mental healthcare system
The India Express
Mental health problems were already a major contributor to the burden of illness in India before the pandemic, with a third of all female and a quarter of all male suicide deaths in the world occurring in this country.
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Let’s talk! About mental health and the accounting profession
Canadian Accountant
The Canadian accounting profession is taking steps to address mental health issues and awareness, though studies show accounting workplaces are stressful.