‘Chronic emotional depression afflicts nearly 10 percent of all adults in the United States — nearly 20 million people nationally and 170,000 in the Pittsburgh region alone.
This largely silent epidemic means that one out of every 10 of your neighbors has trouble getting out of bed each day, can’t sleep through the night, chronically misses […]
‘If you think that exercise just keeps you physically fit, then you should know that it is also good for your mental health, as UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression to a great extent.
The study conducted on adults aged 20 to 45 showed that depressive symptoms were […]
‘An article appearing in the January 2005 issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity suggests that developing depression while on interferon-alpha plus ribavirin may impact how well the medications work.
In a study conducted in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, Charles L. Raison, MD, Andrew Miller, MD, and colleagues, […]
‘Most women with depression get worsening symptoms prior to their periods, researchers say.
In a new study, 64% of women with major depression said their symptoms get worse five to 10 days before their period. Women whose symptoms worsened had depression for a longer duration of time than women whose depression symptoms did not change because […]
‘MAYBE THE OLD SAYING “you are what you eat” should be changed to “you feel what you eat.”
Certain nutrients can help ease depression, but they are not a substitute for conventional treatments such as medication or counseling.
About one in every six Americans experiences major depression at some point in their lives, and more experience milder […]
‘Many patients with depression are now recognized as having bipolar disorder, a chronic biphasic mood disorder with episodes of both depression and mania or hypomania. Successful management of bipolar disorder requires suppression of acute mania, treatment of acute depression, and prevention of relapse into either condition. No single medication can achieve all of these objectives. […]
‘Eating more fish may help keep the blues at bay, new research reveals. In a study presented at this year’s American Psychiatric Association meeting, researchers found that people who eat at least one serving of fish per week have a lower risk for depression than those who are squeamish about seafood.’
Read more at Fish Eaters […]
‘nger, pain, and depression are three negative experiences so closely bound together it can sometimes be hard to know where one ends and the other begins. Pain is a complex phenomenon that has emotional and physical components. The emotions play a huge role in the experience of pain, and pain is intimately associated with depression. […]
‘One of the liveliest discussions today concerns the influence of our evolutionary past on our present-day biology and behavior. An appreciation of the evolutionary perspective on depression can help those who are acutely suffering.
Evolutionary psychology describes how an ancestral environment different from the one we face today shaped the structure and function of our brains. […]
‘Treatment with the antidepressant mirtazapine, started on the first day after an acute stroke, is “remarkably effective” in preventing the onset of depression, results of a German trial suggest.
Depression often complicates recovery after a stroke, Dr. Isabella Heuser and colleagues note in their report in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Although there have been studies of […]