Podcast: CRISPR can cause cancer? Vitamin B6 may fight depression; COVID 'groupthink'

Podcast: CRISPR can cause cancer? Vitamin B6 may fight depression; COVID ‘groupthink’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
CRISPR gene editing has already proved to be a useful biomedical tool, but a recent study indicates it may damage ...
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Genetics might explain why obese and depressed people have less grey matter in the brain

Joana Carvalho | 
Obesity is one of the major public health problems in western countries, with an estimated prevalence of up to 38%. Although ...
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How probiotics can relieve depression symptoms

Probiotics either taken by themselves or when combined with prebiotics, may help to ease depression, suggests a review of the ...
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Which depression treatment is right for you? AI could provide answers

Kristin Houser | 
Currently, depression is diagnosed by a survey — commonly, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) — which quantifies the severity ...
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Disturbing hallucinations and psychosis mysteriously plague some coronavirus patients

Pam Belluck | 
Nightmarish visions... plagued [Kim] Victory during her hospitalization this spring for severe respiratory failure caused by the coronavirus. They made ...
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‘Diagnostic conundrum’: COVID-19 pandemic has given us a lot of clinically depressed people

James Hamblin | 
As a rough average, during pre-pandemic life, 5 to 7 percent of people met the criteria for a diagnosis of ...
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Dark humor memes about suicide, death and isolation may help depressed people cope with their own problems

Umair Akram | 
Memes are a simple way for people suffering from depression to share their experiences ...
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Infographic: What suicidal behavior looks like in the brain

Catherine Offord | 
Scientists have identified several key neurobiological pathways with ties to suicidal behaviors. Research in the field addresses only a fraction ...
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Smartphone as a ‘mood predictor’? This study wants to know if phone-captured data can predict depression

Shelly Fan | 
With digital health, anyone with a wrist wearable or smartphone could potentially contribute in the largest studies ever attempted by ...
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Do obesity and mental illness share genetic links?

Nancy Bazilchuk | 
If a person with high genetic vulnerability is exposed to adverse environmental factors, such as an infection or mental trauma, ...
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Video: Placebo effect or powerful antidepressant? Understanding the science of psychedelic microdosing

Individuals who microdose mushrooms, or those who microdose LSD, claim to experience an elevated mood, increased productivity, and a greater ...
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Autism may share genetic links to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and other psychiatric disorders

Nicholette Zeliadt | 
Some of the inherited variants implicated in autism also increase the odds of other conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression ...
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Psychedelics have ‘extraordinarily potent’ anti-inflammatory power. Is there a place for them in mainstream medicine?

Shlomi Raz | 
Research on psychedelics, which have been profoundly stigmatized, highly restricted, and tragically undeveloped for more than half a century, is ...
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Does the pill cause depression? Why its too soon to be worried

Laura Sanders | 
“Does the pill cause depression?” the news headline asked. Prompted by a recent study that described a link between taking birth ...
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How a fetus’s developing brain may be shaped by mom’s mental state

Catherine Monk, Jyoti Madhusoodanan | 
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy can mean a higher risk of offspring developing ADHD, depression or other conditions. Medical psychologist ...
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Treating ‘suicidality’ as its own medical condition could spur research, better treatment options

Temma Ehrenfeld | 
There is no established method of identifying patients in immediate danger of attempting suicide. Some researchers are trying to change ...
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Second psychopharmacology revolution: New drugs could change the way we treat depression

Charles Zorumski, Eugene Rubin | 
The field of psychopharmacology was born during the 15 years between 1955 and 1970. Now, nearly 60 years later, the field of psychiatry may ...
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Does marijuana help with depression and anxiety? This study finds scant evidence to support growing claims

Ruby Scully | 
A major study has found little evidence that cannabis helps with depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions, despite growing ...
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‘Superhero therapy’: How comic book characters can help us navigate life

Olga Khazan | 
Why adults flock to this kind of therapy speaks volumes about the importance of superhero stories—and the nature of the ...
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‘If you get better, you stay better’: Deep brain stimulation could offer long-lasting depression treatment

Catherine Offord | 
Deep brain stimulation can durably improve depression symptoms in people who don’t respond well to other treatments, according to a ...
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Long-term antidepressant use linked to higher risk of heart attack, stroke and death

Andrea Petersen | 
More Americans are taking antidepressant medications like Prozac and Zoloft for extended periods of time: One-quarter of people on the ...
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‘Grave set of circumstances’: Investigating connection between autism and depression

Cheryl Weinstock | 
[People with autism] are four times more likely than neurotypicals to experience depression over the course of their lives, although ...
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Chasing links between mental illness and microbes living in our guts

Ashley Yeager | 
“If you would have asked a neuroscientist 10 years ago whether they thought the gut microbiota could be linked to ...
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Acne’s Wonder Drug Is a Mental-Health Puzzle

Rachel Gutman | 
In 2002, a family filed a lawsuit alleging that an acne drug made their teenage son suicidal. Accutane, a since-discontinued ...
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Pharmacogenetics and depression: Genetic screening could eliminate trial-and-error approach to medications

Ricki Lewis | 
Antidepressants may soon be added to the growing list of medications genetically matched to patients most likely to respond — ...
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Drugs used for depression, epilepsy may increase risk of dementia, study shows

Jacqueline Howard | 
Scientists have long found a possible link between anticholinergic drugs and an increased risk of dementia.  A study published in ...
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Unintended benefits of ‘the pill’: Fewer mood swings and better relationships?

Tenille Taggart | 
I was intrigued to learn that taking birth control pills could reduce period-related mood swings and that it had other beneficial effects ...
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