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Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy Promising for Depression in Cancer Patients
Depression remains common in patients with cancer, and common treatment approaches have demonstrated limited success.
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SUDs rates highest in head, neck, and gastric cancer survivors
Alcohol use disorder was the most common type of SUD across multiple subtypes of cancer patients.
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Do Plant-based Psychedelics Offer a New Option for TBI Treatment?
Oneirogens are substances that produce or enhance dreamlike states of consciousness—could one of those, ibogaine, be key to...
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How an Obesity Drug Could Help Alcohol Use Disorder
“There was a very strong response, even at a very low dose.”
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VA’s Annual Report on Suicide: Reasons for Despair—and Hope
When COVID-19 hit, the number of suicides among veterans had been going down. But in 2021, the trend began to reverse...
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PTSD symptoms in women tied to worse heart, brain health
Outcomes of interest were associations of PTSD symptoms with carotid intima media thickness, brain white matter hyperintensity volume, and...
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Long-term use of ADHD meds and CVD risk: New data
“Clinicians should be vigilant in monitoring signs and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases, particularly among those receiving higher doses.”
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Can thermal biofeedback reduce pain and anxiety?
Device reduced anxiety scores by 22% in small study.
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Ketamine no better for depression than placebo?
Investigators say participants’ expectations of an improvement from ketamine may be driving that result.
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Is it time to scrap ultraprocessed foods?
For every 10% increase in UPF consumption, the odds of developing any kind of dementia increased by 25% in one study.