What is the link between glaucoma and depression? There is a circular link. Patients with glaucoma have higher risk of becoming depressed, and being exposed to antidepressants; some antidepressants can precipitate acute angle closure glaucoma (1). Why is this important…
Snorting your depression out? Stimulants in the treatment of depression
Stimulants have been intuitively considered as treatment options for depression for a very long time. It is often said that Freud treated his own depression by snorting cocaine. Methylphenidate (Ritalin) was first systematically studied in the treatment of depression in…
The problem of irritable legs
Do you know of a condition “which causes such suffering that it should be known by every physician”?(1) That is what Ekbom, the neurologist who described this condition, said in 1960. This condition, used to be known as anxietas tibiarum…