Posts Tagged ‘major depression’
Study: To treat depression, therapy alone works better than therapy combined with antidepressants
___ Should Combined CBT, Pharmacotherapy Be Reconsidered in MDD? (Psychiatry Advisor): “Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) alone proved to be superior to the combination of psychotherapy and antidepressant medication in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) in a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Psychological Medicine. Antidepressant medication is associated with side effects and withdrawal…
Read MoreQ: What do people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? A: A brain with similar gray-matter loss
. Different mental disorders cause same brain-matter loss, study finds (press release): “A meta-analysis of 193 brain-imaging studies shows similar gray-matter loss in the brains of people with diagnoses as different as schizophrenia, depression and addiction…The findings call into question a longstanding tendency to distinguish psychiatric disorders chiefly by their symptoms rather than their underlying…
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