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MIXED UP ABOUT MIXED STATES?

Vol 2 #10 Alan Eppel The introduction  of a category for “Depression with Mixed Features” in DSM 5 has opened a Pandora’s box of confusion. This new category threatens to undermine Leonard’s original division of manic-..

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Psychotic Depression: Symptom Severity

Vol. 3 #3 Standard measures for the assessment of the severity of depression may not be valid in tracking psychotic depression. A group of researchers from Denmark and Belgium led by Dr. Søren D. Østergaard have created a rating scale speci..

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Does Generalized Anxiety Disorder Exist?

Vol 3 #4 Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC “The diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder is a distraction of no value. It is highly unreliable, co-occuring with many other disorders of firmer diagnostic status……..classification would be ..

It’s Not Always Depression: Sometimes It’s Shame

Vol 3 #5 By Hilary Jacobs Hendel (Originally published in the New York Times on March 10, 2015. Published in this Journal with the author’s permission). How can it be that a seemingly depressed person, one who shows clinical symptoms, do..

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What Is The Best First Line Antidepressant?

  Vol 6 # 1 Alan Eppel   Many SSRIs and SNRIs are considered effective as first line choices for the treatment of Major Depression. However the short term nature of randomized controlled trials does not allow the identification of th..

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LA JOIE COMME REMÈDE

Vol 6 #4    Caroline Giroux, MD, FRCPC [email protected]   Après relecture d’une première version de l’article que je me sentais en devoir d’écrire, j’ai commencé à me sentir mal, ennuyée, et pire que tout, vidée de..

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JOY AS MEDICINE

Vol 6 #4 Caroline Giroux, MD, FRCPC University of California Davis     [email protected]   After reading a first, 1500-word iteration of the article I believed I should be writing, I started feeling uneasy, bored, and worst of all, j..

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