Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. April is here and we've got a wide selection of training ahead.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Benefits of sequentially adding cognitive-behavioral therapy or antidepressant medication for adults with nonremitting depression.
● Familial Aggregation and Coaggregation of Suicide Attempts and Comorbid Mental Disorders in Adults.
● CBT-I & subjective-objective sleep discrepancy.
● Sleep Regularity is Associated with Sleep-Wake and Circadian Timing, and Mediates Daytime Function in Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder.
On 5 March 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the nasal spray medication Spravato (esketamine) for treatment-resistant depression in adults. Some people are applauding this new medication as a much-needed shift from the era of antidepressants, including Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil. “Finally, a drug that uses a different mechanism of action than these older antidepressants,” they cheer. Esketamine is a glutamate receptor modulator that is believed to help restore synaptic connections in a depressed person’s brain cells. Other critics are more skeptical, concerned it won’t be the panacea we’ve been looking for.
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The percentage of Service members who participated in a Military Times survey last fall who reported having seen "signs of white nationalism or racist ideology within the armed forces," according to a recent Military Times article, White nationalism remains a problem for the military, poll suggests. "Among non-white service members in the poll, incidents of racism and racist ideology increased from 42 percent in 2017 to more than half those surveyed in 2018."
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. We're saying good-bye to March and welcoming in April and several new events.