New antidepressants can lift depression and suicidal thoughts fast, but don’t expect magic cures
Drugs like ketamine can relieve depression symptoms, including suicidal thoughts, within hours, but they also carry risks that patients need to understand.
Dec. 21, 2020 • ~8 min
COVID-19 and telehealth may be changing how much you know about your therapist
With most therapy sessions now online, a psychologist explores whether more self-disclosure by therapists – sharing more about their own lives – might help their patients.
July 1, 2020 • ~9 min
COVID-19 and teletherapy may be changing how much you know about your therapist
With most therapy sessions now online, a psychologist explores whether more self-disclosure by therapists – sharing more about their own lives – might help their patients.
July 1, 2020 • ~9 min
Are we all OCD now, with obsessive hand-washing and technology addiction?
Behaviors that would have been seen as pathological a few months ago are now applauded as adaptive and resourceful. Where do doctors draw the line?
June 15, 2020 • ~8 min
Women in STEM: Anna Chaplin
Anna Chaplin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychiatry who studies the association between depression and cardiovascular health in young people. Here, she tells us about teaching herself to code, her department’s support of students, and putting your mental health first.
Jan. 9, 2020 • ~2 min
After his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Arthur Kleinman shares what he learned
Harvard Professor Arthur Kleinman’s wife, Joan, began to struggle with a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease at 59. Eight years after losing her, he chronicles their journey in “The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor.”
Oct. 31, 2019 • ~10 min
Harvard history professor traces the rise of psychiatric drugs
The Gazette spoke with History of Science Professor Anne Harrington about her new book, “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness,” which traces the treatment of mental disorders from its early years to the Prozac Nation of today.
June 17, 2019 • ~10 min
New approach to drug discovery could lead to personalised treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders
Researchers have developed a method that could drastically accelerate the search for new drugs to treat mental health disorders such as schizophrenia.
May 8, 2019 • ~4 min
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