CBT Beats Adjunctive Antipsychotic for Refractory OCD

CBT Beats Adjunctive Antipsychotic for Refractory OCD

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LA JOLLA, California — Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) involving exposure and ritual prevention is significantly more effective than the antipsychotic drug risperidone in the adjunctive treatment of refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD …
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Program will help chart family medical history

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There's a program this weekend at the Augusta-Richmond County Library to get you started. It helped 36-year-old Catherine Pate. When she discovered that the depression she's battled since youth runs in her family, she says, the validation freed her to …
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Old-World Diseases That Can Still Affect Your Health

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Rates have doubled in the past 20 years; it now affects about 4 percent of American adults, says N. Lawrence Edwards, MD, CEO of the Gout & Uric Acid Education Society and professor of medicine, rheumatology and clinical immunology at the University of …
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