Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
December 11, 2015
Rafael Faria Sanches, Flávia de Lima Osório, Rafael G. Dos Santos et al.
468 citations
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian botanical hallucinogenic brew which contains dimethyltryptamine, a 5-HT2A receptor agonist, and harmine, a monoamine-oxidase A inhibitor. Our group recently reported that ayahuasca administration was associated with fast-acting antidepressive effects in 6 depressive patients. The objective of the present work was to assess the antidepressive potentials of ayahuasca in...
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
December 2015
Abbas Abolghasemi, Hossin Gholami, Mohammad Narimani et al.
Depression is characterized by a great risk of relapse and recurrence. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and cognitive therapy are efficacious psychosocial interventions for recurrent depression. The aim of the present research was to compare the effect of Beck's cognitive therapy (BCT) and MBCT on reduction of depression and sociotropic and autonomous personality styles in Iranian...
Nursing and midwifery studies
December 2015
Bentolhoda Kolahkaj, Fatemeh Zargar
Studies suggest that mindfulness-based interventions can improve anxiety, depression and stress in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, no study investigated the effectiveness of this method in patients with a combination of problems such as depression, anxiety and stress simultaneously. However, comorbidities of depression and anxiety in MS are prevalent. This study aimed to assess...
Journal of Affective Disorders
November 15, 2015
Marloes J. Huijbers, Philip Spinhoven, Jan Spijker et al.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and maintenance antidepressant medication (mADM) both reduce the risk of relapse in recurrent depression, but their combination has not been studied. Our aim was to investigate whether the addition of MBCT to mADM is a more effective prevention strategy than mADM alone. This study is one of two multicenter randomised trials comparing the combination of...
BMC Psychiatry
November 9, 2015
Mira B. Cladder-Micus, J. Vrijsen, E. Becker et al.
BackgroundMajor depression is a common psychiatric disorder, frequently taking a chronic course. Despite provision of evidence-based treatments, including antidepressant medication and psychological treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy or interpersonal therapy, a substantial amount of patients do not recover. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) has been found to be effective in...
Biological Psychiatry
November 4, 2015
Jaskaran Singh, Maggie Fedgchin, Ella Daly et al.
466 citations
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety and to explore the dose response of esketamine intravenous (IV) infusion in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). METHODS: This multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in 30 patients with TRD. Patients were randomly assigned 1:1:1 to receive an IV infusion of .20 mg/kg or .40 mg/kg...
Medicine
November 1, 2015
Mei-fen Zhang, Yong-Shan Wen, Weiyan Liu et al.
AbstractAnxiety and depression are common among patients with cancer, and are often treated with psychological interventions including mindfulness-based therapy.The aim of the study was to perform a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions for improving anxiety and depression in patients with cancer.Medline, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and Google Scholar were...
Revue de l'infirmiere
November 2015
Florent Dulong
Mindfulness is the art of being fully present in what we are doing, without judgement and without expectation. A therapeutic education programme was created in the 1990s in order to combat depression and generalised anxiety disorder. In France, this programme will be used in psychiatry. Meditation and psychoeducation will enable patients with depression to gradually establish a detachment with...
Journal of Psychiatric Practice
November 1, 2015
Ajay K. Parsaik, Balwinder Singh, Darrow Khosh-Chashm et al.
42 citations
Retracted
To consolidate the evidence from the literature to evaluate the role of ketamine in the treatment of bipolar depression. Major databases, including MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane, and Scopus, were searched through October 2014, for studies reporting the role of ketamine in the treatment of bipolar depression. Only randomized controlled trials were included in the meta-analysis. We calculated...
Mindfulness
October 20, 2015
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a promising intervention for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression; however, a more detailed examination of the different elements of MBSR and various facets of mindfulness to determine what works best for whom is warranted. One hundred and two veterans with PTSD were randomly assigned to one of four arms: (a) body scan...