Plans focusing on Wellness all too often forget mental health
April 30, 2007
Employers' plans emphasize wellness | www.pennlive.com
Mental health problems are associated with more physical problems
Mental health problems such as depression associated with more occupational problems, days off, etc
Proper Pharmacologic Treatment of ADHD reduces risk of substance abuse
April 30, 2007
A New Look at the Relationship and Management of ADHD and Comorbid Substance Use Disorder | cmsprepub.medscape.com
Treating ADHD reduces risk of comorbid substance abuse with appropriate doses of medication
Untreated ADHD and substance abuse increases risk for dependence, adverse outcome including jail, sociopathy, adverse impact on occupational, social and personal functioning
April 30, 2007
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. Announces FDA Approval To Market Generic Ambien(R) | www.medicalnewstoday.com
Urgent need for generic
Proprietary medications often prohibitively expensive
Insurance plans often prefer generic equivalents
Urgent Need for Better Treatement for Excessive Sleepiness
April 30, 2007
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial for VSF-173 in Excessive Sleepiness | www.pipelinereview.com
Urgent need for treatment for excessive sleepiness
Affects millions of Americans
One of most common presenting problems to primary care, psychiatry and neurology clinics where symptom may be primary or part of other primary condition
Restless Leg Syndrome Commonly Presents to Psychiatry Clinics
April 30, 2007
XenoPort Reports Positive Top-Line Phase 3 Trial Results of XP13512 in Restless Legs Syndrome | www.pipelinereview.com
This has huge significance as restless leg syndrome not only presents to primary care physicians and neurologists but frequently to psychiatrists
Presentation often related to sleep disturbance
Presentation of movement abnormalities/distress
Cortisol and Psychiatric Disorders
April 30, 2007
Scientists unravel clue in cortisol production | www.rxpgnews.com
Depression is associated with abnormalities in cortisol production, in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and related brain imaging abnormalities
Anxiety disorders area associated with abnormalities in cortisol production
Eating disorders are associated with abnormaliteis in cortisol production
April 2, 2007
What's new in the antidepressant market when generics rule the roost? | atlanta-institute.com
1. Currently, generic antidepressants are better and cheapter option than proprietary medications
2. The way to go is targeting novel systems, e.g, glutamate, rather than same systems
When Prescribed Appropriately Sleep Medications Can be Very Safe and Effective
April 2, 2007
Ranbaxy Receives Tentative FDA Approval to Manufacture and Market Zolpidem Tablets | pharmalive.com
1. Generic sleep medications (as for any medication) have considerable advantage in terms of cost
2. When prescribed correctly, sleep medications (as for any medication) can be quite effective with few side effects.
3. These can be dangerous when not taken correctly and when appropriate personal and family psychiatric history not taken.
April 2, 2007
Kickboxing 'causes brain damage' | news.bbc.co.uk
1. Brain continues to develop throughout adolescence and young adulthood.
2. More brain plasticity earlier rather than later.
3. Brain development throughout adolescence and into young adulthood. Time for more things to go wrong, altered development, also possible for more to be 'corrected'
FDA Approval For Medication is Important
March 30, 2007
FDA Approves Duloxetine for Anxiety | journals.elsevierhealth.com
1. FDA Approval for new condition, e.g, anxiety, especially important to primary care practioners and increasing their comfort zone.
2. FDA approval for newer condition somewhat less important for specialists, e.g, psychiatrists who may be using for other conditions already
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