Retractions are on the rise in medical research, and we get to the bottom of it with Ivan Oransky, cofounder of RetractionWatch.com. Published On: 12/21/2020 Duration: 25 minutes, 12 seconds Rough Transcript: Can you personalize antidepressant selection, use antipsychotics in dementia,...

Cognitive behavioral therapy treats insomnia as well as a sleep med, and it also improves depression and immune function. This special patient podcast introduces the first steps of the therapy, and shows you how to find the full therapy if...

Depression and anxiety improve when healthy bacteria are added – whether through diet or probiotics – according to several dozen small randomized controlled trials. However, only a handful of those trials involved full clinical depression. This study adds to that...

About 1 in 50 US adults use stimulants like amphetamines (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin), and modafinil (Provigil) without a prescription, and 80% of them take the drugs to enhance cognition, not to get high. The ethics of all this are vexing,...

While medication is the mainstay of treating symptoms in ADHD, Edward Hallowell, MD, shares a positive, relationship-based approach to ADHD with practical strategies to help children and adolescents manage ADHD. Published On: 11/30/2020 Duration: 18 minutes, 10 seconds Related Article:...

Schizophrenia, autism, addictions, borderline personality disorder, nearly every psychiatric disorder is associated with disrupted circadian rhythms. It’s particularly true for bipolar disorder, where circadian rhythm disturbances are involved from the behavioral to the genetic level. All of these disorders are...

Psychotherapy can work as well as medication, but can it also have side effects? Michael Linden believes it can. He launched some of the key studies that brought light to this under-appreciated phenomenon, and in this interview he shows us...

If we trust the Catie trial, olanzapine is one the most effective antipsychotics for schizophrenia. Why? Despite its trying side effects – particularly weight gain – patients stuck with it the longest, which means it was doing enough good that...

In March of 2020 sales of alcohol increased by 54% in stores and 262% in online purchases compared to 2019. But then again people were stocking up on everything last March as they hunkered down for an indeterminate quarantine. But...

How the SSRIs were derived from Benadryl, how a forgotten antidepressant almost brought the serotonergic industry to a halt in the 1980’s, and how this all culminated in a Nobel prize and a new theory of dopamine. Published On: 11/16/2020...