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Category: Psychiatry
The new drug is called iloperidone; the brand name in the USA will be Fanapt. It is yet another antipsychotic that blocks D2 and 5HT2 receptors. Although there is no universally accepted way of classifying drugs into families, it will...
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Category: Neuroscience
A recent report refers to the increasing number of Alzheimer patient an "emergency." Yet, despite an enormous amount of research, and a handful of drugs, we are not particularly close to having a robust intervention for this condition. Perhaps the...
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Category: Psychiatry
Poets on Prozac is the short title of a book by psychiatrist-poet Richard M. Berlin, MD. The full title is: Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process. Berlin was an associate professor of psychiatry at the University...
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Category: Neuroscience
It is refreshing to see something like this. Both drugs are available as generics, so the financial motivation for a study like this is not great. But the clinical benefit could e substantial, albeit for a small subset of patients....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:34 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
There is a short open-access article about whole-body neuronal MRI, in the most recent NEJM. The authors describe a technique of visualizing peripheral nerves. Normally, these are not seen very well on MRI. This limits the usefulness of MR imaging...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
Natalie Angier has another interesting article in the NYT. In the article, she discusses the meaning of the word behavior. Apparently, this all came from the realization that even standard works on the subject did not contain a "point-by-point definition." ...
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Category: Neuroscience
PhysioProf commented about this back in 2006 after Alex Palazzo 's post, A silent mutation affects pain perception? That post discussed mutations that affect pain perception. Now, there is a bit more information available about potential commercial developments stemming from...
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Category: Psychiatry
This is one of those "interesting, wonder if it'll ever pan out" studies. So far it has been presented at a meeting, but not published. The study was summarized in an article on Medpage Today (free registration): APSS: Depression and...
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Category: Neuroscience
Some may recall Brodmann Area 25 (a part of the brain also known as the subgenual area or area subgenualis). It was mentioned by Orli Van Mourik (Much Ado About Area 25) in 2006, and by me in 2008 (Update...
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Category: Psychiatry
(comic from kxcd) This post will discuss some findings about the factors that are correlated to clinical response to clozapine (Clozaril® , FazaClo® ). Clozapine is a drug used to treat psychosis. It usually is used for persons...
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