Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Masculine depression and its problem behaviors: use alcohol and drugs, work hard, and avoid psychiatry!

Claudia von Zimmermann, Magdalena Hübner, Christiane Mühle, Christian P. Müller, Christian Weinland, Johannes Kornhuber, et al.

This case-control study compared 163 depressed in-patients (44% women) with 176 controls (51% women). Using a median split on the Male Depression Rating Scale‑22 to label 'masculine' versus 'non-masculine' depression, the study found that masculine depression was linked to worse depression, more frequent and heavy use of alcohol (including binge…

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