Tag: depression

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

Hearts and souls: An opinionated take on NEJM highlights for October and November 2022

A psychedelic for refractory depression While major depression is awful, treatment-resistant depression (as defined not responding to at least two different courses of therapy) is worse with sufferers stuck in a long dark tunnel of anguish without a light at the end of it. Since psilocybin (the psychedelic agent in so-called magic mushrooms) has shown some effectiveness in depression, it seemed reasonable to test its differentiated mechanism of action in this high need patient population.  In this study that was mostly Europe-based but included sites in the US (finally), patients

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