‘Hope That There May Be Alternatives to Antipsychotics’

By manchesterusersnetwork on 4th December 2014   Breaking News..., Featured News, Fish oil and Bipolar/Schizophrenia, Lead Article, Mental Health, North Manchester CCG, Schizophrenia  

In 1999, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Stoll published a study showing that omega-3 fats improved the course of illness in people with bipolar disorder.1 In 2001, he published the book The Omega-3 Connection, which was among the first works to bring attention to and support the use of omega-3 fats for depression.

Now, more than a decade later, there has been additional research supporting the importance of omega-3 fats for mental health, including a potentially groundbreaking study presented at the 2014 International Early Psychosis Conference in Tokyo, Japan, which took place in November.2