Scary Good or Just Scary? Al in Psychiatry

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Join Genomind and guest speaker, Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, on a journey through cutting-edge applications and the potential impact of artificial intelligence on mental health. This is your chance to explore the future of psychiatry and its intriguing possibilities! More About this Webinar Dr. Perlis is the Associate Chief for Research in the Department […]

How Hormones Affect Mood for Women

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Feeling sad or depressed? Maybe it’s not you—maybe it’s your hormones. Here’s how puberty, pregnancy, post-partum, and menopause can affect mental health.

How the COMT Gene Impacts Mental Health Treatment

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What does the COMT enzyme do? COMT (catechol-O-methyltransferase) is a central enzyme that breaks down catecholamines including dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. COMT plays a vital role in regulating dopamine signaling in the prefrontal cortex where dopamine transporters are relatively sparse.1 Dopamine levels here are critical for memory, attention, judgment, and other executive functions.2,3 COMT gene […]

4 Ways Modern Medicine Is Helping Ease the Veteran Suicide Crisis

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Hope for easing the suicide crisis among U.S. military veterans has grown in recent years, thanks in part to advances in treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and other mental health conditions veterans bring home from the battlefield. That’s important news, because the number of veterans who die by suicide is sobering. According to […]

Risk Stratification Definition, and How It Affects Patients’ Care

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You’re probably familiar with the lab tests and in-office screening procedures clinicians use to assess your current clinical conditions or your risk of developing certain diseases. But that’s just a starting point for the next steps in your care. Risk stratification definition Through a process called risk stratification, clinicians can systematically categorize patients’ health risk […]

How Pharmacogenomics Has Improved Patients’ Lives Through Personalized Prescriptions

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Did you know that your DNA is 99.9% the same as your neighbor’s? So what makes you you? That remaining 0.1% can influence everything from your height, weight, and hair color. It can also affect how your body reacts to and breaks down certain types of medications. The emerging scientific field of pharmacogenomics combines pharmacology […]

How Your Genes Can Help Clinicians and Cardiologists Keep Your Heart Healthy

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If your doctor has prescribed multiple drugs for your heart condition — maybe you recently suffered a heart attack or deal with angina — it’s likely that your prescription regimen is entirely different from that of your neighbor. That’s because you are you, thanks to your genes, and you might reap different rewards from certain […]

4 Hidden Costs of Aging and How You Can Offset Them

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Think about the last time you were at the supermarket. If you felt like you were the youngest person there, it’s possible that you were. The U.S. population is aging rapidly. Currently, there are more than 54 million older adults (age 65 and up), and by 2040 that number is expected to balloon to 80 […]

Medication Adherence: Why It’s Important to Patients

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When patients fill a prescription, it doesn’t always mean that they’ll follow through on the important part: taking it. Taking medication as prescribed is called medication adherence – and it’s a practice too often neglected. Turns out, about half of all patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure don’t take their […]

How Food Affects Your Mood

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Today, the rapidly growing field of nutritional psychiatry is finding many connections between the food we eat and the types of bacteria that live in our guts which affect how we feel

How Precision Medicine Could Revolutionize Older Adult Care

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Part of the reason you’re living longer is your physical and social environment — your home, neighborhood, and community — notes the World Health Organization.1 Eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and refraining from smoking all contribute to a longer life span as well. Doctors prescribe medications to their patients to treat illnesses and with […]

How to Make the Most of Your Annual Medication Review

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If you’re an older adult, one of the most frustrating aspects of everyday life may be staying on top of all those medications you’ve been prescribed. Making sure they’re in the right slot in your pillbox can be frustrating. In some cases, because you’ve been prescribed so many different drugs, you may wonder if you […]

What Is Pharmacovigilance, and Why Is It So Important to Patients’ Health?

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Some of the medications you’ve been prescribed could put you at risk of experiencing an adverse drug event (ADE), or a situation where you might be harmed by a medication.1 As one example, one of your prescriptions could be interacting with another one (drug-drug interaction), or even your DNA could be interacting with one of […]

The Life-Threatening Mental Illness in Older Adults No One Is Talking About

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We’ve all experienced times in our lives when we’ve felt blue. But for some, those feelings can be intense and last for several weeks or longer, signaling a medical condition known as clinical depression.1 Although clinical depression affects people of all ages, adults over the age of 65 are at an increased risk, says Patrick […]

11 Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before Starting or Switching to a New Medication

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If you take one prescription medication, you’ll know that there’s a dose and a frequency with which you’re supposed to take it. Normally, it’s easy to keep track of one prescription, no problem. Now, multiply that by five, 10, or more. Taking multiple drugs at a time can often be unnerving. You might worry about […]