Current Opinion in Psychiatry
July 1, 2024
Stephen N. Xenakis, Scott Shannon
5 citations
The pace of psychedelic treatments continues to increase. Regulation and coherent clinical guidance have not been established. A philosophical divide limits effective resolution of a practice delivery quandary: is this primarily a pharmacological or psychotherapeutic intervention? Lykos (formerly MAPS) has submitted its new drug application (NDA) request to the FDA for...
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
November 15, 2021
Jerome Sarris, Diego Pinzon Rubiano, Kimberley Day et al.
12 citations
Purpose of review Despite advances in treatment modalities for mood disorders over recent decades, further therapeutic options are still required. Increased research is occurring, with the pursuit of psychedelic-based pharmacotherapies for a range of mood disorders and other conditions. Recent findings Serotonergic psychedelics have been found to modulate brain networks underlying various...
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
December 11, 2015
Zindel V. Segal, Kathleen M. Walsh
64 citations
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The article reviews the recent evidence for mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for patients with residual depressive symptoms or in remitted patients at increased risk for relapse. RECENT FINDINGS: Randomized controlled trials have shifted focus from comparing MBCT with treatment-as-usual to comparing MBCT against interventions. These studies have provided evidence...
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
July 30, 2010
Nancy Nyquist Potter
3 citations
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review covers recent books and articles on the perennial problem of how mind and brain work together to produce psychiatric symptoms. RECENT FINDINGS: Discussed in this article are research on predictors of anxiety disorders, evidence relating to agency and sense of self-ownership, the extended mind hypothesis, and brain differences in genders of moral sensitivity....
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
September 1, 1996
Jennifer Radden
4 citations
Recent research about the nature of mental or functional disorder, its classification and etiology acknowledges underlying methodological and metaphysical theory.In such broad attempts to understand mental disorder and the science and practice of psychiatry, the philosophy of mind is increasingly recognized as playing an important and helpful role.
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
February 1, 1992
Edward G. Altman, Thomas H. Jobe
6 citations
The tension between two fundamentally different approaches to characterizing and treating psychopathology has increased during the last year. These are the traditional diagnostic-category approach and the symptom dimensional approach. Progress made in the symptom-dimensional approach has reached the point where it may now challenge the diagnostic-category approach. This challenge has been...