Want to get better sleep without medication? Cognitive behavioral therapy treats insomnia as well as a sleep med, and it also improves depression and immune function. This podcast introduces the first steps of the therapy.
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How the SSRIs were derived from Benadryl, how a forgotten antidepressant almost brought the serotonergic industry to a […]
All the old material is here. We’re busy updating it and plugging in some interactive features so you […]
Primary care providers are generally not well trained in handling complicated mood problems. Some have gotten really good at […]
The discussion below focuses on evolution as a principle. Perhaps more important, or at least easier to swallow, […]
Here are all the pages on this site, by Topic. Click across the three tabs below. You could […]
What to Look For and Questions to Ask (This is a whole chapter on the subject which didn’t […]
(updated 12/2014) [mwm-aal-display] Introduction You may be reading this chapter as a “significant other” (S.O.) of some sort, […]
Randomized Trials of Antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder If you arrived here from somewhere other than the Antidepressant Controversies […]
with Gradual Antidepressant Reduction With respect for Dr. Gary Sachs, Director of the Harvard Bipolar Disorders Program and […]
Here are some findings from a literature search on this topic 1. In one study, doctors gave eight […]
Is there a “testosterone deficiency syndrome”? Update 10/2020: A randomized controlled trial was just published in the American […]
Here’s a short version of a long, important story: genes can be modified, during life, and those modifications […]
How? What’s the connection? Recent reviews emphasized that there seems to be a “two-way street” between metabolic syndrome […]
In contrast to mania, depression is now quite well understood at a molecular and cellular level. Even some […]
This is a hard chapter. If there are any in this series of five chapters you might wish […]
Whereas 10 years ago it was hoped that a single gene for bipolar disorder might be found, it […]
BCL-2 stands for B-cell lymphoma/leukemia-2, one of a large family of proteins that regulate cell death and growth. […]