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Buckner’s Death Puts New Focus on Lewy Body Dementia—A Relatively Unknown but Surprisingly Prevalent Disease

By Brian Burns | June 11, 2019

Lewy Body Dementia is an umbrella term for two different diseases—one is dementia with Lewy bodies (LBD) and the other is Parkinson’s disease with dementia.

Nutritional Psychiatry: Mental Health from a Nutrition and Lifestyle Perspective

By Gloria Rosado | June 6, 2019

Most people have heard the expression “you are what you eat” and think about how what they eat affects their physical health, but could food be affecting mental health too?

Mass General Research Roundup for May 2019

By Gloria Rosado | May 23, 2019

Experiencing adverse events at a young age may increase risk of mental health disorder, evaluating the price of skincare products for women and a new model for cancer treatments.

Scientists Find Physical Activity Could Prevent Depression

By Gloria Rosado | April 18, 2019

Researchers from the Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit at Mass General recently published a study in JAMA Psychiatry that set out to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between exercise and depression.

Mass General Research Roundup for April 2019

By Brian Burns | April 16, 2019

Chronic health problems for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder, 3D mammography in older women and how oxytocin acts on food receptors in the brain.

Are You an Early Bird or a Night Owl? Study Finds Early Birds Have Lower Rates of Depression

By Gloria Rosado | April 11, 2019

Some people wake up early like clockwork with a chipper attitude and are eager to start the day. Then there those who have a bit of a slower start, but stay up till the wee hours claiming they’re most productive at night. Sound familiar? It turns out those waking habits may be embedded in our genes,
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Five Things to Know: What Causes Night Sweats and How Do You Treat Them?

By Brian Burns | April 4, 2019

Two Mass General clinicians were recently featured in an article about the causes of night sweats and how to treat them. Here are five things to know.

Fitness Trackers Monitor Our Physical Health, But Could They Monitor Our Mental Health Too?

By Gloria Rosado | April 2, 2019

Diagnosis and treatment for mental health disorders can be a time and resource-intensive process for patients and providers alike. Could data from digital fitness trackers help?

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Ketamine Approval Offers New Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression, But Questions Remain

By Brian Burns | March 26, 2019

While the FDA’s approval of the first ketamine-based drug for treatment-resistant depression is encouraging, there are still a lot of details to work out, says Cristina Cusin, MD.

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Mass General Investigators Dig Deeper into the Science of Sleep

By Brian Burns | March 21, 2019

Three recent studies from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital that look at the connections between sleep and health.

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