ABSTRACT The war in Ukraine has led to widespread trauma, with 6.4 million people suffering from severe, chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study evaluates the cost‐effectiveness and societal impact of implementing modified group MDMA‐assisted therapy (MAT), with supplemental individual therapy for PTSD treatment in Ukraine. Using a decision analysis model, we estimated clinical...
Abstract Introduction Recent studies and anecdotal reports suggest that sleep-onset hypnagogic dreams can contain creative insights, in some cases leading to Nobel prizes. While such reports are rare, targeted dream incubation (TDI) can induce dreams on pre-selected topics, such as “a tree,” in 70% of dream reports collected shortly after sleep onset, as well as a subsequent increase in...
Recent clinical trials suggest that 3 single biological treatments have effects that persist. Based on research showing that the muscles involved in facial expressions can feed back to influence mood, a single trial diminishing glabella frown lines with botulinum toxin demonstrated a significant antidepressant effect for 16 weeks. Based primarily on research with animal models of depression...