Breaking news on depression
Suicide Recommendations Lead To Drop In Suicides Across England And Wales published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST
According to new research published by The Lancet, there has been a substantial decrease in suicide rates among health authorities across England and Wales that adopted a new range of suicide recommendations...
Measures Must Be Taken To Prevent Depression In Adolescents published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:00:00 PST
As one of the most common, unrecognized and untreated health problems among young people, tackling depression is a serious priority for countries worldwide. The psychiatric disorder causes serious social and educational problems for patients, as well as leading to increased risk of suicide and substance abuse...
Depressed Patients Accurately Distinguished From Healthy Controls By Blood Test published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
The initial assessment of a blood test to help diagnose major depressive disorder indicates it may become a useful clinical tool...
New Study May End 2 Decades Of Suspicion: Does Borna Disease Virus Cause Mental Illness? published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Over the past 30 years, numerous studies have linked Borna disease virus (BDV) with mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder and dementia. Genetic fragments and antibodies to this RNA virus, which causes behavior disorders in a range of mammals and birds, have been found to be prevalent in psychiatric patients, but study results have been inconsistent...
A Parent's Nurturing Results In Larger Hippocampus In Children published
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:00 PST
A recent study by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, states that children whose mothers showed them love and affection from the very beginning have brains with a larger hippocampus, which is a key part of the brain involved with...
Hope For Those With A Depressive Disposition published
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Good news for the 13 per cent of the population with depressive personality traits: their negative outlook does not have to be permanent. This has been shown by psychologist Rachel Maddux in new research from Lund University in Sweden. Depression is a serious and sometimes devastating health problem which affects millions of people worldwide...
Military Suicide Rates Rose published
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PST
According to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, between 2005 and 2007, suicide rates among individuals serving in U.S. military services increased, particularly among those in the regular Army and National Guard. The study, which included the entire active duty U.S...
How A Parent's Education Can Affect The Mental Health Of Their Offspring published
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
New research sheds light on cycle of low socioeconomic status and depression Could depression in adulthood be tied to a parent's level of education? A new study led by Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, a medical sociologist from McGill University, suggests this is the case...
Family History Of Psychiatric Disorders May Shape Intellectual Interests published
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
A hallmark of the individual is the cultivation of personal interests, but for some people, their intellectual pursuits might actually be genetically predetermined. Survey results published by Princeton University researchers in the journal PLoS ONE suggest that a family history of psychiatric conditions such as autism and depression could influence the subjects a person finds engaging...
Overworking Linked To A 2-Fold Increase In The Likelihood Of Depression published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PST
The odds of a major depressive episode are more than double for those working 11 or more hours a day compared to those working seven to eight hours a day, according to a report is published in the Jan. 25 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE...
Shedding Light On How The Brain Adapts To Stress published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Scientists now have a better understanding of the way that stress impacts the brain. New research, published by Cell Press in the January 26 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals pioneering evidence for a new mechanism of stress adaptation and may eventually lead to a better understanding of why prolonged and repeated exposure to stress can lead to anxiety disorders and depression...
The Effects On The Brain Of Magic Mushrooms published
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work...
Mental Illness Affects 1 In 5 Americans published
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PST
In the past year, 45.9 million Americans above the age of 18 years, or 20% of 18 year-olds, experienced mental illness, according to a new national report. Mental illness amongst those aged between 18 and 25 years (29.9%) was more than double as high, compared with people aged 50 years or older (14.3%)...
Major Public Health Campaign Called For By Stanford Dean To Fight Epidemic Of Unnecessary Suffering published
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
The amount of needless suffering caused by both acute and chronic pain in the United States is a major, overlooked medical problem that requires improved education at multiple levels, stretching from the implementation of new public health campaigns to better training of primary care physicians in pain management...
Mephedrone Users In The UK Are Ready To Try The Next Legal High, Despite The Risks published
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Since mephedrone was made illegal in the UK in 2010, the street price of the drug has risen while the quality has degraded, which in turn may have reduced use of the drug. New research published online reveals that young people who continued to use mephedrone after it became illegal would switch to a new legal high if it were pure and rated highly by their friends or on the Internet...
Antidepressants Tied To Higher Risk Of Falls In Nursing Home Residents With Dementia published
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
Compared to similar people who don't take them, nursing home residents with dementia who take average doses of a class of drugs used to treat depression are three times more likely to have an injurious fall. These are the findings of a new study from The Netherlands published online in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology on Wednesday...
When Anticipating Rewards, Adolescents' And Adults' Brains Respond Differently published
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Teenagers are more susceptible to developing disorders like addiction and depression, according to a paper published by Pitt researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was led by Bita Moghaddam, coauthor of the paper and a professor of neuroscience in Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences...
Comparing Alcohol Use And Other Disorders Between The United States And South Korea published
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Hazardous alcohol use and depression are among the 10 leading causes of disability and premature death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Many low- to middle-income countries have begun to see a steady increase in alcohol use and have entered the early stages of a tobacco epidemic...
Taking Anti-Depressants During Pregnancy Increases Pulmonary Hypertension Risk In Newborns published
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
An investigation published on bmj.com reveals that children are more likely to be born with persistent pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs) if the mother took anti-depressants during pregnancy. Persistent pulmonary hypertension is a rare, but severe disease associated to heart failure...
Pregnant Women On Anti-depressants Risk Newborns With Hypertension published
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
A study published in the BMJ shows that pregnant women taking certain kinds of anti-depressants have a much higher risk of delivering babies that suffer from pulmonary hypertension. According to The American Academy of Pediatrics, around one in every 1000 babies suffer from the problem - high blood pressure in their lung arteries...
Working During Treatment For Depression Can Increase Work Productivity published
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that employees with depression who receive treatment while still working are significantly more likely to be highly productive than those who do not. This is the first study of its kind to look into a possible correlation between treatment and productivity...
Treatment For Diabetes And Depression Improves Both published
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Patients simultaneously treated for both Type 2 diabetes and depression improve medication compliance and significantly improve blood sugar and depression levels compared to patients receiving usual care, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
A Broken Heart Breaks Your Heart, Literally ! published
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
According to an article published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, heart attack risk after bereavement is much higher for several weeks after the loss. The day the loved one dies, the risk of a heart attack is a stunning twenty one times higher...
News From The Annals Of Family Medicine: January/February 2012 published
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PST
Caring for the growing number of people with multiple health conditions The January/February issue of Annals takes an up-close look at multimorbidity, the coexistence of multiple chronic health conditions in a single individual, a phenomenon that is growing at an alarming rate and bankrupting the U.S. health care system...
Team Care Improving Depression And Diabetes published
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
The growing number of people with multiple physical and mental chronic conditions are among the toughest - and costliest - to care for. The TEAMcare collaborative care program is a promising solution...
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