depression

Free full text: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-0741-x

http://cepuk.org/2020/02/08/guest-blog-nice-depression-guideline-cautious-optimism/?fbclid=IwAR1c2BN81TyQ79EjH8IYSjTeztHESk1i7rP3-GmiJJDLLH3HDrNlaxR8M2c

Open access, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58806-w

The National Clinical Audit of Anxiety and Depression (NCAAD) has published a new report following an audit of psychological therapies provided in secondary mental health care settings...

Trial By Error: CBT Provides No Benefits to Advanced Cancer Patients, Study Finds By David Tuller, DrPH http://www.virology.ws/2020/01/15/trial-by-error-cbt-provides-no-benefits-to-advanced-cancer-patients-study-finds/

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/91/1/21.abstract Efficacy and safety of anti-inflammatory agents for the treatment of major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials Hard to say whether this is GIGO without an in-depth look but this was to be...

Talk (no booking required, public) no abstract yet Date: 28 January 2020, 12:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020) Venue: University Department of Psychiatry Headington OX3 7JX Organising department: Department of Psychiatry https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5a0edd5a-46e6-4f9a-8cca-f139852175f5/

https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/depression-advisor/addressing-depression-in-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ edit to add: Not a recommendation. I started the thread because someone linked the article on another thread.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cpp.2417?af=R eta: full paper now available https://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/cpp.2417

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159119310773 From a press release by the university: https://www.vai.org/pregnancy-related-depression-lena-brundin/ Hello tryptophan my old friend. I frankly find it doubtful that cognition, thoughts and beliefs, play more than a minor...

Journal of Adolescence Volume 75, August 2019, Pages 123-129 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197119301289 again using this proxy CDF (chronic disabling fatigue). Is this now a formal diagnosis? Or are they maybe, finally, realising that CDF does not equate to ME or CFS...

Systemic low-grade inflammation and subsequent depressive symptoms: Is there a mediating role of physical activity? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333056434_Systemic_low-grade_inflammation_and_subsequent_depressive_symptoms_Is_there_a_mediating_role_of_physical_activity

I saw this article (which is mostly about antidepressants) on the Human Givens Institute and thought it worth sharing as it is written by a psychotherapist...

This left me perplexed. Is it complete quackery or a promising diagnostic method? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15622975.2019.1599143?journalCode=iwbp20

Paywalled at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359104519838584?journalCode=ccpa Sci Hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/1359104519838584

I haven't looked at this, but it sounds interesting and relevant. It is accepted by the CBT-GET promoters that there are biological changes in patients with ME. A key part of their argument has always been that psychotherapy can bring about or reverse biological changes. Here is a study that...

Hmmm. Paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032718332300?via%3Dihub

Some interresting considerations about trials methodology (CoI, selectivity in publishing trials with positive results, gap between patients selected and real life patients, scales, what is used as a placebo...) Rings a bell...

Does anyone know if there have been any studies following the long term outcomes of people who exhibit what I would term physical signs and symptoms (diarrhoea, tremors and shaking, irritable bowel, chills, aphasia, ataxia... etc - see places like webmd for lists) which have been widely ascribed...