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Successfully Prescribing MAOIs for Depression

Psychiatric Times

TARGET AUDIENCE This accredited continuing education (CE) activity is intended for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other health care professionals who seek to improve their care for patients with mental health disorders.

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PMDD and Mental Health: When Hormones Trigger Emotional Crises

Lightwork

This emphasizes the importance of understanding maternal health issues related to hormonal changes. Moreover, it’s vital to understand that PMDD can worsen underlying mental health disorders such as depression , making it even more important to seek professional help.

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Study: Serotonin Dysregulation Is the Common Denominator in Most ADHD Comorbidities

ADDitude

. “This association confirmed the occurrence of comorbidities within a clearly defined ADHD population (rather than the presence of ADHD within a population with a particular condition), and also confirmed that the comorbidity was a co-occurring condition and not an adverse event elicited by ADHD treatment,” the researchers wrote.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

If one wishes to understand an idea such as neuroplasticity, or the logistics of synaptic transmission, or the ramifications of an event like enzyme inhibition or competitive receptor binding, it helps to explain in concrete terms the jobs of key players in a given system. Metaphor and anthropomorphism can help.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness.

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You Asked: Can Zuranolone Be Used to Treat Postpartum Depression in a Mother with Bipolar Disorder?

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

MGH Center for Womens Mental Health On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration convened an expert panel to discuss the use and safety of selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy. Mental health conditions are already the most frequent cause of pregnancy-related death.

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“Get Over It”? A Response to Empower Parents to Repair Instead of Victim Blame

Mad in America

My concern is that this tone blames the victim and I would like to offer a few thoughts from my experience and from the rich literature on childhood adverse events. It cites the “alleged” refrigerator mother of the 1940s as well as the rejecting and overprotective mother “allegedly” causing mental illness from the 1950s-1970s.