Recommended reading is a weekly summary of interesting posts and selected links I posted on Twitter
- New therapy gives hope for very severe depression
German physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne have treated ten patients with deep brain stimulation. This involved implanting electrodes in the patients' nucleus accumbens. This centre has a key role in as the brains reward system, whose function may be impaired in depressive people. Subsequent to this treatment, the patients' depression improved significantly in half of the patients.
Thanks to a new method there is a reason for hope for patients with very severe depression. German physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne have treated ten patients with deep brain stimulation...
- Why doctors and patients shouldn't discuss medical problems on social media
Doctors and patients shouldn’t be discussing patient-specific issues in the social space.
Bryan Vartabedian, MD, a Baylor physician, has a great post on 33 Charts today about doctor-patient conversations on social media. His conclusion: Doctors and patients shouldn’t be discussing patient-specifi...
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Depression: Not so Effective, but FDA Approved
My opinion on rTMS in depression has been discussed in several posts on my blog. Had to update some of the information regularly.Rapid Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to the left prefrontal cortex is not more effective than sham rTMS for depression. This was the result of a recent published randomized controlled trial with 4 month follow-up.
Apparently, the FDA will approve just about anything as an antidepressant. Despite patients indicating that they don't perceive Abilify to work as an antidepressant, the FDA approved it, likely leading to ten...
- Review: The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal
Empathy, de Waal explains, is the social glue that holds communities together, and if humans are empathetic animals it is because we have "the backing of a long evolutionary history". "Bonding... is what makes us happiest," he writes, and rapidly accumulating evidence from the behavioural and neural sciences supports the claim.
Evidence continues to show that animals (including humans) are naturally cooperative - so why do we cling to the idea that nature is "red in tooth and claw"?
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