July 18, 2002 Risperidone combined with a mood stabilizer was more effective in acute mania than the mood stabilizer alone and as effective as
LONDON (Reuters Health) Jul 02 – Cultivation of opium poppies for use in producing pharmaceuticals like codeine and morphine will take place for the first
Anxiety and depression may be masked among many primary care patients when they consult about their perceived health problems. Primary care doctors should be made
LONDON (Reuters Health) Jul 04 – Compared with paroxetine, nefazodone improves sleep disturbances during early treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe depression, according to the results
Measurement of cerebrospinal fluid flow does not reliably predict which patients with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) will improve after undergoing ventriculoperitoneal shunting (VPS). Flow measurement
Women with psychotic disorders have substantially lower fertility rates compared with healthy women, according to a report in the June issue of the American Journal
Britain’s Alzheimer’s Society said on Monday that patients with early symptoms of dementia are at risk because carers are too frightened to take them to
Florida’s Office of the Attorney General has begun an inquiry into whether Eli Lilly & Co. violated state unfair trade practices when sales personnel allegedly
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) and 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) complement each other in the evaluation of temporal lobe epilepsy. Following surgery for epilepsy,
Pre-sleep mental activity, whether it is relaxing or unremittingly strenuous, does not appear to affect total amount of slow wave activity and its discharge during
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jul 02 – People with high blood pressure who are depressed may be less likely to take their antihypertensive medications than
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Jul 02 – US regulators ruled on Tuesday that a bottled water with nicotine added is an unapproved drug designed to help smokers
July 2, 2002 Oral ketoprofen in a dual-release formulation is about as effective as zolmitriptan in controlling acute migraine, according to results of a
תרופות שיאפשרו לשלוט ברגשות ספציפיים , כמו כעס או ביישנות ,גלולות למחיקת זכרונות קשים ותכשירים למיתון הפרעות כמו פוביה חברתית הם רק חלק מהפיתוחים שבהם
שיקום קוגנטיבי לחולי סכיזופרניה, המתמקד בתפקודים יומיומיים, מביא לשיפור עצום במצבם. אף על פי כן , כמעט ואין משקיעים בכך לכתבה באתר עיתון “הארץ”
הנער סובל מחרדה וממצבי רוח מתחלפים? מתחיל להתעניין ברעיונות חדשים וחריגים? יש לו הפרעות שינה וירידה בהישגים? זה גיל ההתבגרות או תסמינים מוקדמים להפרעה פסיכיאטרית?
June 28, 2002 The cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitor celecoxib may prove useful as short-term, add-on therapy for acute schizophrenia exacerbations, according to results of
Lamotrigine (Lamictal) has distinct and perhaps complementary mood-stabilizing effects for the treatment of bipolar disorder, according to presentations on May 20 and 21 at the
Scientists said on Tuesday that they have identified a screening test that could help identify which pregnant women are likely to develop depression after childbirth.
– Doctors in developed countries are overprescribing potentially addictive drugs, such as antidepressants and sedatives, a United Nations drugs expert said on Monday. Dr. Hamid