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Psychiatry Weekly is the first weekly psychiatric news, information, and education service in the country for clinicians providing mental health services. The service includes a weekly poster distributed to hospitals nationwide, a weekly e-letter, and this website, which is consistently updated with features, CME content, and breaking news. Psychiatry Weekly is a joint venture between MBL Communications, Inc., publishers of Primary Psychiatry and CNS Spectrums, and Physician’s Weekly, LLC, the leading medical news service for acute care hospitals for over 25 years.

 

Selecting a First-line Antidepressant: New Analysis

Norman Sussman, MD; Michael Thase, MD

A recent study in Lancet addressed the perennial question involving the selection of an antidepressant: Which drug is most effective?
 

Current and Future Therapy for the Dementias

Gary J. Kennedy, MD

Reduction in cardiovascular risk factors remains the leading hypothesis for interventions to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Because dementia occurs near the end of life, delaying the onset by 5 years would nearly halve the prevalence of the disease over the next 40 years.
 

Treatment-Resistant Depression -- Part III: Switching Antidepressants vs. Conventional Augmentation Strategies

George I. Papakostas, MD

This is the final installment of a three-part series covering treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Part I, by Dr. John O'Reardon, and Part II, by Dr. Michael Thase, cover the scope and clinical spectrum of TRD, and augmentation strategies, respectively.

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