Kirsten Lawson summarises a new ‘state of the art review’ in the BMJ which focuses on novel and emerging pharmacotherapy and neuromodulation for people with ‘treatment resistant depression’.
[read the full story...]Transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) enhances response to antidepressants: a rather flawed meta-analysis
It’s a well-known fact that elves are allergic to unhappiness, so the fact that there are at least 350 million sufferers of depression worldwide1 is quite a problem. That’s before we’ve even mentioned the crippling mortality, morbidity and economic impact that depression causes. The trouble is, our treatments for depression aren’t perfect. Less than a [read the full story…]