Study links sleep medications use to dementia risk in older adults Meghna A Singhania28 Dec 2020 8:45 AM ISTResearchers have recently noted that the routine use of sleeping medication was associated with incident dementia across the follow-up interval, as...
Psychedelic drug receives approval to be tested as depression treatment Medha Baranwal26 Dec 2020 10:45 AM ISTUK: Psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) has received approval from regulators in the UK to be tested as a depression treatment alongside...
Bartonella infection tied to psychiatric symptoms and skin lesions: Study Hina Zahid26 Dec 2020 9:45 AM ISTBartonella bacteria are increasingly recognized as an emerging infectious disease threat.Researchers at North Carolina State University have found...
Duloxetine and gabapentin equally effective in diabetic neuropathy: Study Medha Baranwal25 Dec 2020 8:00 PM ISTJodhpur, India: Both duloxetine and gabapentin are effective for providing symptomatic relief in painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) patients and had...
Cannabis could reduce fentanyl use, overdose risk Hina Zahid24 Dec 2020 6:30 PM ISTNew research suggests that cannabis use by people in care for opioid addiction might improve their treatment outcomes and reduce their risk of being...
Benzodiazepines addition to antidepressants increases death risk in depression: Study Dr. Nandita Mohan22 Dec 2020 8:15 PM ISTResearchers have found in a new research that addition of benzodiazepines to antidepressants monotherapy to treat depression was associated with a...
Researchers identify new biomarker for treatment outcomes of schizophrenia Dr. Shivi Kataria21 Dec 2020 5:30 PM ISTAmong various hypotheses suggested for schizophrenia (SZ) Pathogenesis, genetic factors are gradually supposed to play more significant roles. Amid...
Tobacco exacerbates cognitive dysfunction in mentally-ill women, reports study from RML Dr. Shivi Kataria18 Dec 2020 9:34 PM ISTRecent data suggest that women availing psychiatric services with major mental illnesses (MMI) are three times as likely to use tobacco, as women from...
Neonatal circumcision has delayed psychological complications as an adult: Study Hina Zahid18 Dec 2020 9:11 PM ISTAccording to World health organization approximately one-third of males in the world are circumcised. Routine, non-therapeutic infant male...
Nightmares tied to anxiety and insomnia in heart patients Hina Zahid18 Dec 2020 9:30 AM ISTSophia Antipolis, - Heart patients with weekly nightmares are five times more likely to feel depressed or anxious and even more likely to have...
COVID-19 survivors at increased risk of psychiatric sequelae, finds study Dr. Nandita Mohan17 Dec 2020 3:45 PM ISTResearchers have recently found out that the survivors of COVID-19 appear to be at increased risk of psychiatric sequelae and a psychiatric diagnosis...
Depressive symptoms independently linked to CVD risk: JAMA Medha Baranwal17 Dec 2020 3:00 PM ISTUK: Depressive symptoms are associated with a modest increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), suggests a recent study in the journal...
