Most individuals understand the relation between nutrition and physical illnesses. It is much less common, however, for the connection to be made between emotionally rooted illnesses (depression, anxiety, etc.) and nutrition. Fortunately, nutritional neuroscience is emerging and establishing scientifically that nutrition factors are intertwined with...
“When you have depression, simply existing is a full time job.” While it is uncertain who said this, the individual most likely had personal experience with depression. Major depressive disorder is a mental health disorder that plagues an estimated 16.2 million adults in the United...
If you’re struggling with symptoms of depression, you may find that they get considerably more difficult to manage around the holidays. While everyone around you is feeling “merry and bright” you may begin to feel even more isolated and may find yourself unable to even...
TMS is an FDA Approved Treatment for Depression For more than 20 years, researchers have been studying TMS as a potential therapy for many neurological and psychiatric conditions. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the use of TMS for the treatment of...
Living with clinical depression can make the holiday season – especially New Year’s celebrations, incredibly difficult. While all of your friends and family members are making resolutions for the new year and are getting excited about the experiences to come, you may feel overwhelmed by...
Prozac, the first Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI), was released by Eli Lilly in 1987. Compared to its predecessors, this blockbuster drug was more effective and more tolerable. As a result, Prozac was immediately popular with both clinicians and patients alike, and within three years...
One of the biggest breakthroughs in recent years for the treatment of depression is actually the rediscovery of the drug Ketamine. While some may be familiar with ketamine as a club drug, a wealth of recent clinical evidence suggests that at smaller, slowly-infused dosages the...
Though transcranial magnetic stimulation provides breakthrough non-invasive treatment options for depression and relief from other mental disorders, there is still an incredible amount of importance of what different treatment strategies coincide with it. Though typically medication will (at the very least) be attempted as a...
Antidepressant Drugs not working? Try TMS! Since the advent of antidepressants in the early 1950’s, depression has typically been treated with a combination of counseling and prescription drugs. In the past two decades, the use of antidepressants has increased dramatically. Research suggests that as many as...
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), often simply referred to as depression, is a serious mood disorder that affects up to 15 million adults in the United States. Now believed to result from a combination of genetic and environmental factors, major depression is a biological disorder characterized...