A large Australian study finds that nearly one in four participants with a history of depression fit a proposed circadian profile marked by disrupted sleep patterns, greater symptom severity, and reduced perceived antidepressant effectiveness, offering new clues to why conventional treatments may work less well for some patients.
Study: Clinical and genetic correlates of a circadian subtype of depression in the Australian Genetics of Depression Study. Image credit: PeopleImages/Shutterstock.com
A recent study published in the British Journal of...
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A new long-term study confirms that children of parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder face a higher risk of developing mental health issues...
Summary: Researchers have uncovered shared biological mechanisms across major psychiatric disorders by analyzing postmortem brain samples from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Instead of...
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Date:
August 12, 2025
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Canadian Medical Association Journal
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THC levels in cannabis have soared in recent years, raising the risk of psychosis—especially in...