New Depression Findings Could Alter Treatments.
Kids on antidepressants more likely to commit suicide? I have heard about this several times before, but I believe this is a first study directly asking this question:
“The researchers found no link between the antidepressant drugs and suicidal behavior in depressed patients 19 or older. But children and adolescents in the study who were taking antidepressants were about 50 percent more likely than those not on the drugs to try to kill themselves. And they were about 15 times as likely as those not on the medications to complete the act, although the number of suicides was too small to draw definitive conclusions, the authors cautioned.”
Also, a single shot of Ketamine lifts depression for a week in patients for whom no other treatment is effective. Kevin explains how. (snarl) So, in the good old days when IACUC still let me anesthetise my quail with a rompun/ketamine mix, my animals were surely not depressed for a week after surgery. Good to know, even if it is in retrospect (/snark)
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