‘Hurricane Katrina doubled the rate of serious mental illness in areas ravaged by the storm but the urge to commit suicide fell, partly because survivors bonded with each other, a Harvard-led study said on Monday.
Billed as the biggest mental health study yet after Katrina killed about 1,500 people along the Gulf Coast, the survey showed […]
‘Wanda Jensen had always been a happy person. She wasn’t one to get down.
But when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast and left widespread desolation in its place, it also left many affected people struggling with depression, anxiety and other forms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Jensen, a resident of the Slidell, La., area, […]
‘Two widely used antidepressants, nortriptyline and Zoloft (sertraline), are safe and effective for treating postpartum depression, a new study finds.
The University of Pittsburgh study is one of the first to compare the effectiveness of two classes of antidepressants — a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (Zoloft) and a tricyclic (nortriptyline) — in treating the common, debilitating […]
‘Researchers at the University of Nice, in France say they have made a depression-resistant strain of mice by breeding them without the TREK-1 gene. TREK-1 is a gene commonly known to affect the transmission of seritonin, which plays an important part in sleep, mood and sexuality.
The so-called “permanently cheerful” mice are offering hope for a […]
‘At first, it seemed as if little things were going wrong. Bonnie Harris forgot about sales appointments; she couldn’t recall colleagues’ names. But as her job in sales became more stressful, Harris developed intense mood swings and moments of terror. She saw psychiatrists, who prescribed various medications, but the drugs only made things worse, she […]
‘New research has concluded that young people with type 1 diabetes could be at risk of depression.
The research for Diabetes Australia has found about a quarter of young adults with the disease say they are depressed.
Associate Professor Fergus Cameron from Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital says the treatments for type 1 diabetes can cause a lot […]
‘The Department of Geriatric and Mental Health of the King George’s Medical University on Monday celebrated its first foundation day by organising lectures of Dr George T Grossberg, director, Geriatric Psychiatry, St. Louis University, USA. These lectures were organised on topics-‘Depression and Medical Comorbidity: A world-wide challenge’’ and ‘‘Can we prevent Alzheimer’s disese: Recent undertakings […]
‘Increasing numbers of young homeless people with mental health problems are failing to get adequate support, according to a new report.
The study found that in London almost three-quarters of homeless people, aged 16-25, had mental health problems.
But the report for the Mental Health Foundation and Centrepoint found a lack of skilled staff resulted in people […]
‘In non-depressed patients who have recently suffered a stroke, prophylactic treatment with Zoloft (also called sertraline) does not prevent the onset of depression in the following 6 months, according to results of a study.
Depression after stroke is common, affecting approximately 1 in every 3 survivors, note Dr. Osvaldo P. Almeida and colleagues from the University […]
‘Clinicians need to screen their HIV patients for depression and consider possible treatments for the condition because it adversely affects adherence to antiretroviral therapy, according to a researcher speaking here at the 16th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006).
“Physicians should be worried about depression in their patients,” said the study’s principal investigator Michael Horberg, internist and […]