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“His combination of the science 
and the art of medicine has 
helped many patients with 
widely varying problems. His 
careful communications with 
referring practitioners have 
facilitated the integration of 
psychopharmacology and 
psychotherapy.” 

— DR. SALLY ROSENBERG

better.”
Drugs work by target-
ing neurotransmitters in 
the brain that stimulate 
or inhibit their release, 
he notes. “Initially, we 
thought the main trans-
mitters were serotonin, 
norepinephrine and dopa-
mine. But we began to 
see that stress hormones 
played a major part in 
depression, and research 
has now found that the 
main transmitter in the 
brain is glutamate, a pro-
tein that is a stimulating 
hormone and one of the 
main causes of anxiety.”
There was a time when 
many traditional psycho-
analysts believed drugs 
undermined successful 
treatment. “Nowadays, 
more analysts are pre-
scribing medications and 
the two approaches are 
recognized as needing 
each other,” Rosenbaum 
says. “When you put them 
together, the success rate 
goes up.”
In his practice, 
Rosenbaum has seen an 

increase in depression. “I 
think it has to do with the 
amount of stress people 
have,” he says. “The hours 
people work seem longer. 
Both spouses are working, 
and they don’
t have enough 
time for themselves or with 
their children. We’
ve also 
found that inflammation 
from any disease, or even 
surgery, can trigger depres-
sions.”
Diet and exercise, he 
adds, “have been proven 
to be extremely import-
ant for our mental health, 
with exercise shown to 
even delay the onset of 
Alzheimer’
s disease.” 
As for the future of psy-
chiatric drug treatment, 
Rosenbaum hopes scien-
tists will find something 
similar to what has evolved 
for cancer treatment: med-
ications that block genes 
that allow cancer to grow. 
“My hope is we can find 
a medication that can 
block the gene or genes 
that allow the biological 
part of the psychiatric ill-
ness,” he says. 

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