Monthly Archives: March 2014

The authors of this paper describe a lipidomic approach to detecting preclinical Alzheimer’s disease in a group of cognitively normal older adults. They discovered and validated a set of ten lipids from peripheral blood that predicted phenoconversion to either amnestic … Continue reading

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Psychiatry clinical trial news (quotes from article): “Mental-health division will no longer fund research aiming to relieve symptoms without probing underlying causes.   Thomas Insel, the director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has had enough of shooting … Continue reading

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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a relatively common yet clinically heterogeneous disorder for which there exists no validated biomarkers in the youth population to aid the detection of at-risk groups for depression in general and for young males in particular. … Continue reading

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