Doctors Hope to Cut Out the Guesswork in Prescribing Antidepressants. When someone swallows his or her first antidepressant, it may come as a surprise how the psychiatrist chose that particular pill to prescribe: It’s a best guess out of dozens of antidepressants on the market. Now, a few psychiatrists have set out to bring some [...]

I was first introduced to bipolar disorder about twelve years ago with the diagnosis of a family member. I witnessed a complete psychotic break up close and personal. The course of the episode went from insomnia and grandiosity to chasing hallucinated white mice with a broom, dodging non-existent cars on sidewalks, and screaming in terror [...]

The official name for REM is actually called rapid eye movement and it is the rapid movement of the eyes during sleep. R. Robert Auger, a sleep researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has found links between taking serotonin reputake inhibitors (more commonly known as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc.) and REM behavior disorder. [...]