Depression

Harmer CJ, O’Sullivan U, Favaron E, Massey-Chase R, Ayres R, ReineckeA, Goodwin GM, Cowen PJ. University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. Am J Psychiatry.2009 Oct;166(10):1178-84. Acute administration of an antidepressant increases positive affective processing in healthy volunteers, an effect that may be relevant to the therapeutic actions of these medications. The authors investigated […]

Taking moderate to high daily doses of antidepressants for more than 2 years is associated with an 84% increased risk for diabetes, according to a large observational study conducted by a group from Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine in Bremen, Germany, based on the data from the U.K. General Practice Research Database. […]