From TIME magazine: America’s Medicated Army Data contained in the Army’s fifth Mental Health Advisory Team report indicate that, according to an anonymous survey of U.S. troops taken last fall, about 12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17% of those in...

Patients With Bipolar and Unipolar Depression Show Similar Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy – Psychiatric Times. “Results of a large study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health showed that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) might be...

Apparently Fridays are happenin’ days for ECT. There seemed to be a lot of people here to have ECT at Parthenon Pavilion last Friday.  When I was making my way up to the ECT treatment area, there was another person, along with who seemed to be her...

The Associated Press: Targacept, AstraZeneca cooperate on depression med. Under terms of the agreement, AstraZeneca will pay Targacept $200 million upfront upon effectiveness of TC-5214, Targacept’s late-stage investigational treatment for major...

Antidepressant Found to Alter Personality – US News and World Report. In this month’s Archives of General Psychiatry, Northwestern psychologist Tony Tang says that the antidepressant medication paroxetine, or Paxil, fights depression most effectively...