A fairly common scenario is that you're on a medication that works well initially, but after a while, it works less, and ultimately stops working. This can occur with any medication, including antidepressants. The normal maneuver is to either raise the dose, switch, or augment it with some other medication. It is also why I have always... Read more
A news article making the rounds describes a study in which subjects drank two energy drinks a day for a week. Their blood pressure rose by about eight percent on the first day, and stayed high for the week. The subjects had an average age of 26, and were otherwise healthy. They did not engage in strenuous exercise during the study. The... Read more
For almost 40 years, it has been suspected that folate plays a role in depression. We have a general sense that low folate can cause depressive symptoms, and that treatment with folate (of low folate patients) can help, but it is still debatable whether or not folate supplementation helps people who are not otherwise deficient. Folate vs.... Read more
Recently, the news media has picked up on a study in Current Biology that, supposedly, explains why people get testy after a sleepless night. In theory, the study shows that people are more emotional, more reactive, and more primitive after sleeplessness. Quoting the news article at Yahoo!: A shutdown of the prefrontal lobe - a brain... Read more
A perplexing finding about suicide rates: As many know, the CDC has reported that the suicide rates have jumped since 2004, especially in young people, and especially in girls aged 10-14. While this is noteworthy in itself, it is also near the time when the first black box warnings concerning the link between antidepressants and suicide came... Read more
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