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Breaking Barriers: How Semaglutide Can Improve Health for Patients with Schizophrenia

A recent randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry has shed new light on an important but often overlooked issue: the physical health of individuals living with schizophrenia (Ganeshalingam et al., 2025). While psychiatric treatment focuses on managing symptoms, many clients also face significant health risks related to weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease—much of it driven by the very medications that stabilize their mental health.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT): Separating Myth from Medicine

Electroconvulsive therapy is a medical treatment in which brief electrical stimulation is delivered to the brain to produce a controlled seizure, under full anesthesia. The procedure is carried out by a team that includes a psychiatrist and an anesthesiologist. It’s performed in a highly monitored and safe environment, either in a hospital or a specialized outpatient setting.

Mental Health

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Healing the Emotional Wounds Beneath the Surface

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex and often deeply misunderstood mental health condition. First formally recognized in the 1980s, it was initially thought to exist on the “borderline” between neurosis and psychosis—an outdated concept that contributed to years of stigma and mischaracterization.

Mental Health

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The Metabolic-Mood Connection: Could GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Reshape Psychiatry?

GLP-1 receptor agonists offer something rare in psychiatry: the ability to target both mind and body, addressing overlapping biological mechanisms in a single, integrated way

Mental Health

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Esketamine and the Prevention of Postpartum Depression: A Promising Step Forward in Maternal Mental Health

Could a single dose of esketamine during a C-section cut the risk of postpartum depression in half? Emerging research says yes—explore how this breakthrough could reshape maternal mental health care.

Mental Health

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New Tools on the Horizon: Excitement Around CT-155 and Schizophrenia Care

The upcoming presentation of Boehringer Ingelheim’s CT-155 at the NEI Spring Congress marks a promising shift in schizophrenia care, targeting cognitive and functional recovery through an innovative prescription digital therapeutic

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