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Glycine and sarcosine are two other amino acids that have been investigated as potential treatments of OCD. Like NAC, glycine affects glutamate but via an indirect mechanism of action. Sarcosine acts as a co-agonist at NMDA receptors, which play an essential role in the brain's glutamate signaling. In a small 12-week placebo-controlled double-blind study 24 adults with OCD were randomized to receive glycine up to 60gm/day versus placebo while taking their usual OCD medications (Greenberg 2009). OCD symptom severity was self-rated using the Y-BOCS at weeks 4, 8 and 12 Only 14 individuals completed the study due to a high dropout rate caused by poor side effect tolerance (mainly bad taste and nausea). 2 individuals in the glycine group experienced significant reductions in OCD symptom severity but no one in the placebo group improved. A larger study is needed to investigate a potential role of glycine as a viable treatment of OCD. … [Read more...] about Non-Drug Treatments of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

The new study makes SSRIs look even less attractive. The researchers, urologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, prescribed low-dose SSRIs to 130 PE sufferers, then tracked them for one year. Self-rated “poor” control dropped to 41 percent of the men—that is, 59 percent reported lasting at least a little longer. But after a year, only 28 percent were still taking the pills. Almost three-quarters—72 percent—had quit for the reasons just mentioned: side effects, the hassles of pill-taking, and not lasting as long as they’d hoped.  … [Read more...] about Drugs for Premature Ejaculation: Most Men Soon Quit Them

Regardless of where you reside, help for youth nicotine use is available. Teen.smokefree.gov is a teen-friendly website that offers guidelines and an app to assist those who are combating underage smoking and e-cigarette addiction. Additionally, family and friends can utilize the E-Cigarettes and Youth Toolkit for Partners to find out how to assist in ending this epidemic. … [Read more...] about Vaping: Teens Are Dying to Be Cool and Collected

*** In summary, the review found that antidepressant responsiveness in people with depression may be linked to early improvement in thinking ability. Determining whether an antidepressant treatment will work by having the patient do a short cognitive test soon after beginning treatment may “help minimize unnecessary drug exposure, lessen suffering, limit resource use, and allow for earlier initiation of a treatment adaptation.” … [Read more...] about Can We Better Predict Whether an Antidepressant Will Work?

In my role of Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, I have utilized many of the well-researched cognitive behavior therapy treatment techniques for my clients with anger control issues that were initially developed in the 1970’s. Anger control treatment using CBT can be conducted individually or in groups. Cognitive behavior therapists have found that it’s important to focus on Arousal management. Thinking Ahead, Attribution Re-Training, Assertiveness techniques and Problem-Solving (Feindler,1991). In fact, since 1979 Psychologists Lee Hallberg and Hassard have been demonstrating the importance of assertiveness training in communication learning as a method to decrease aggressivity. … [Read more...] about How To Put The Brakes On And Control Your Anger