Language dictates how individuals process and understand concepts. This phenomenon is examined for the terms 'antipsychotic' and 'antidepressant'. When the use of medications is extended in new directions (for example when an antipsychotic is used as an antidepressant), the name not only loses its utility, but may become an obstacle to treatment. Clinicians need to be aware of these issues.

On February 2, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration organized a joint meeting of the Neuro-Psychopharmacologic Advisory Committee and Pediatric Subcommittee of the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee to examine the occurrence of suicidality in clinical trials that investigate the use of the newer antidepressant drugs in pediatric patients. Committee members reconvened on September 13-14, ...

The possible increase of suicidal ideation with some antidepressants is still a matter of debate. We are reporting two cases of suicidal attempt that occurred concomitantly with the use of Duloxetine. To our knowledge there is no prior publication about a possible Duloxetine related increase in the risk of suicidality.

In the present work, we consider a scenario where an arbitrary two-qubit pure state is applied for the quantum key generation (QKG). Using the twirling procedure to convert the pure state into a Werner state, the error rate of the key can be reduced by a factor of 2/3. This effect indicates that entanglement is not the sufficient resource of QKG protocol since it is not increased in the twirlin...

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Vortioxetine (Brintellix): a new serotonergic antidepressant.

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is a major public health problem in terms of its prevalence and in terms of individual suffering and cost to society. Best estimates indicate 12-month prevalence rates of approximately 3% for Stage 1 TRD (failure to respond to 1 adequate trial of an antidepressant) and approximately 2% for Stage 2 TRD (failure to respond to 2 adequate trials). The current ar...

Rats were housed in either continuous lighting (LL), an extended photoperiod of 18 h light-6 h dark (LD 18:6) or a 12 h light-12 h dark (LD 12:12) lighting cycle. The effects of these various lighting regimens on the sensitivity of dorsal lateral geniculate neurones to iontophoresed noradrenaline and serotonin (5-HT) was examined. Exposure to either continuous lighting or to an extended photope...