by Ket Patel | Nov 28, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, OCD
An innovative family-focused treatment program for complex cases of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder that looked promising in a randomized, controlled pilot trial of 20 families has now accumulated experience with 35 families. “We’re getting increasingly...
by Ket Patel | Nov 28, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Depression
Over the last decade, attention in the medical literature has gathered logarithmically to focus on potentially efficacious treatments for perinatal depression. Studies of relevant databases, editorials, and various reviews have addressed the reproductive safety...
by Ket Patel | Nov 26, 2012 | Slider Content
Citicoline proved to be no better than placebo at improving function or cognition after traumatic brain injury in the first large randomized clinical trial to test it in this patient population. Citicoline, an endogenous compound that is an intermediate in the...
by Ket Patel | Nov 26, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease
In addition to raising the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, the apolipoprotein E e4 allele appears to confer strong risks for Lewy body and Parkinson’s dementia – diseases that do not exhibit Alzheimer’s characteristic beta-amyloid plaques. The findings suggest that, in...
by Ket Patel | Nov 20, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Psychosis
Patients with an at-risk mental state for psychosis gradually lost hippocampal volume as analyzed with MRI even though only about half of them progressed to full psychosis, according to a longitudinal study published in Schizophrenia Research. Among the 18 patients...
