anti-depressant

Warning over patients left on antidepressants for decades (last part is quite ironic given who Clare Geradas husband is!)

Antidepressant could beat deadliest type of brain cancer (msn.com)

Antidepressant users report urgent need for services to assist with withdrawal. https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/psychiatry-through-the-looking-glass/202309/findings-from-a-survey-of-530-british In a survey of British antidepressant users, 70% experienced "severe withdrawal effects"...

Carla C.P. Rus Bert de Vries Ingmar E.J. Vries1 Idelette Nutma J. J. Sandra Kooij2 1 Radboud University, 2 Amsterdam UMC/VUMC After Covid-19 infection, 12.5% develop a post-Covid-syndrome. Symptoms affect numerous organ systems, but after one year they are mainly neurological and...

article in Daily Mail. Around 40,000 people could be offered digital tool to combat depression Eight 'digitally enabled therapies' have been recommended by health body Nice https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11803727/Digital-antidepressants-rolled-NHS.html

https://archive.ph/oBHQQ Millions of patients will be offered help to come off antidepressants and painkillers under an NHS drive to tackle addiction to prescription pills. New national guidance urges GPs to stop writing repeat prescriptions for those who have become dependent on common...

"The emergence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics is often attributed to the overuse of antibiotics in people and livestock. But researchers have homed in on another potential driver of resistance: antidepressants. By studying bacteria grown in the laboratory, a team...

Abstract Widespread musculoskeletal pain characterizes fibromyalgia (FM), accompanied by sleep, fatigue, and mood problems. Chronic stress and depression play a crucial role in the etiology and pathophysiology of FM. They may contribute to a dysregulation of the central pain mechanisms together...

Joanna Moncrieff, Ruth E. Cooper, Tom Stockmann, Simone Amendola, Michael P. Hengartner & Mark A. Horowitz The serotonin hypothesis of depression is still influential. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate evidence on whether depression is associated with lowered serotonin concentration or...

Slide presentation: "Antidepressant withdrawal syndrome and its management" Dr Mark Horowitz BA, BSc, MBBS, MSc, PhD (IoPPN, KCL) Clinical Research Fellow on RADAR trial (UCL, NELFT) Psychiatry Trainee (Camden & Islington) m.horowitz@ucl.ac.uk...

ABSTRACT Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is associated with sexual dysfunction, though much less is known about the sexual desire, and especially dyadic and solitary sexual desire, among women with fibromyalgia. Aim To investigate on the one hand the global sexual desire, the dyadic sexual and...

"This guideline covers how to make shared decision making part of everyday care in all healthcare settings. It promotes ways for healthcare professionals and people using services to work together to make decisions about treatment and care. It includes recommendations on training, communicating...

Just came across this and thought it might be of interest (its not new, its from 2004) Moncrieff, J., Wessely, S., & Hardy, R. (2004). Active placebos versus antidepressants for depression. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, CD003012.PUB2...

CITATION: Ferreira GE et al. Efficacy and safety of antidepressants for the treatment of back pain and osteoarthritis: Systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2021 Jan 20; 372:m4825. (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4825)

Wendy Burn: Medical community must ensure that those needing support to come off antidepressants can get it (BMJ Blog) The BMJ Opinion, September 25, 2020...

https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/02/review-cochrane-wont-publish/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033318214001935?via%3Dihub https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psym.2014.12.003 Lesley Arnold, Thomas Blom, Jeffrey Welge, Elizabeth Mariutto, Alicia Heller Women’s Health Research Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience...

I know some people here take gabapentin or tricyclic antidepressants, but don't know if anyone has diabetic neuropathy. Allan S. Brett, MD reviewing Randolph AC et al. J Am Geriatr Soc 2019 Jun Gabapentinoids and tricyclic antidepressants might predispose these patients to falling. Tricyclic...

From the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry. More details in the article. http://cepuk.org/2019/05/30/royal-college-psychiatrists-call-update-nice-antidepressant-guidelines-following-cep-campaign/

https://fiddaman.blogspot.com/2019/02/q-with-carmine-pariante.html