Dr Kirsten Lawson reviews one of Dr Wayne Katons’ last cohort studies looking into depression and diabetes and it’s effect on the risk of dementia.
[read the full story...]The effect of depression and diabetes on the risk of dementia
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Dose equivalents of antidepressants: standardising prescribing between different drugs
Andrew Shepherd summarises a meta-analysis, which looks at the dose equivalents of antidepressants by bringing together data from 83 trials of 23 different antidepressants.
[read the full story...]Understanding depressive symptoms in adults with mild intellectual disability
Whilst rates vary in the literature, depression is probably more common in people with learning disabilities than in the general population, though it can be easily missed.
Here Louise Phillips looks at a study which set out to look at differences between self-report and carers’ descriptions of depressive symptoms.
[read the full story...]The value of family meals
Helen Bould appraises a recent systematic review, which investigates the effects of family meal frequency on psychosocial outcomes in young people.
[read the full story...]Another negative trial of cognitive bias modification: a case for Occam’s razor
Ioana Cristea reviews a recent RCT that found no effects of positive imagery-based cognitive bias modification, delivered as a web-based treatment for people with depression.
[read the full story...]Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to prevent depression
André Tomlin presents the results of the PREVENT RCT published today in The Lancet, which investigates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy compared with maintenance antidepressant treatment in the prevention of depressive relapse or recurrence.
[read the full story...]Dementia risk factors in people with mild cognitive impairment
Akshay Nair summarises a recent systematic review and meta-analysis of modifiable predictors of dementia in mild cognitive impairment. The meta-analysis finds that diabetes and the presence of any neuropsychiatric symptoms significantly predicted the conversion of mild cognitive impairment to dementia.
[read the full story...]Varenicline and the risk of neuropsychiatric adverse events and death
Natasha Clarke publishes her debut Mental Elf blog about a new systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the risk of neuropsychiatric adverse events associated with the smoking cessation drug varenicline.
[read the full story...]Do we stigmatise mental illness more as we age?
Raluca Lucacel writes her debut blog about an age-period-cohort analysis, which investigates how attitudes towards people with mental illness worsen during the course of life.
[read the full story...]The antidepressant effects of ketamine are confirmed by a new systematic review and meta-analysis
Helge Hasselmann summarises a new systematic review and meta-analysis, which confirms the antidepressant effects of ketamine.
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