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Depression Is a Systemic Illness – Let’s Treat It That Way

February 8, 2024 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Too Many Are Depressed Depression is one version of hell on earth, and Americans have a lot of it. A recent international study run by Evelyn Bromet of 18 countries found America near the top, with 19.2 percent of the population having experienced depression — only France, at 21 percent, ranked higher. With our tottering health […]

Is Depression Making Me Sleepless, Or Is Insomnia Making Me Depressed?

February 8, 2024 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Common and Connected Depression and insomnia are common and possess common symptoms. Some estimate that 30% of Americans will eventually experience clinical depression, and perhaps 40% of adults complain that many or most nights they don’t get enough sleep, wake too often, or feel unrested on awakening. So which is chicken and which egg? Or are […]

What Brain Genetics Says About Mental Health

July 19, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Brainstorms Heard of the Brainstorm Consortium?  A worldwide group of dozens of researchers is trying to understand diagnosis from the bottom up, starting with your genes. In a recent paper in Science, the group looked at 25 “brain associated” disorder, ten of them psychiatric, fifteen neurologic.  They sorted them through  GWASS – genome wide association […]

Mental Health’s Double Standard

June 28, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

New Barriers to Care Depression is a scourge, widely considered the second greatest cause of health disability worldwide.  It has always been tough to treat.  New studies show it having a worse course the older we get.  Yet new governmental regulations are making the possibility of adequately treating depression in older folk so onerous less […]

Antidepressants Work. Especially the Old Ones.

February 22, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Do antidepressants really work to treat depression?  A new, six year meta-analysis amalgamating hundreds of the best performed clinical trials has demonstrated that antidepressants are better than placebo. The study, published in the Lancet, showed modest effects, positively affecting about 60% of people treated. Drugs varied in efficacy, ranging between about one third to twice as effective as placebo.  What […]

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