Depression News

Controlling pain during childbirth and post delivery may reduce the risk of postpartum depression, writes Katherine Wisner, M.D., a Northwestern MedicineA perinatal psychiatrist, in a July 23 editorial in Anesthesia & Analgesia .

Electroencephalograms, or EEGs, which measure electrical activity in the brain, show promise in improving treatment for depression - and consequently lowering post-traumatic stress symptoms and suicidal tendencies, a new military medical study has found.

Newcastle Knights fullback Darius Boyd has been admitted to a mental health clinic in order to seek treatment for depression.

Treatments for bipolar depression currently take more than one session to begin working.

But that red-flag referral was later downgraded - without Mr Harcombe being seen by another medical professional.

If scientists ever decipher the complex biology behind diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, a lot of the credit may go not to a few deep-pocketed philanthropists and the money they've poured into the tiny stretch along the Charles River in Cambridge between Harvard and MIT.

Brain stimulation treatments, like electroconvulsive therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation , are often effective for the treatment of depression .

Healthcare firm Ultrasis has secured a contract to provide its online depression treatment, Beating the Blues , in Scotland.

There is severe depression , and then there is Lyme depression -which, for many with Lyme, is not actually depression at all.

Terra Lalirra is crossing the Nullabor, raising awareness for depression and suicide, and aiming to raise one million for Lifeline.

Sleep disturbance and depression are commonly encountered in primary care. In sickle cell disease, depression is associated with pain, poor treatment compliance, and lower quality of life.

Why is six scared of seven? Because seven, eight, nine. Jokes like this are only one example of the ways that we humans like to assign personality traits to the numbers that dictate our world.

One of the first comprehensive efforts to explain record suicides among soldiers during and after their deployments in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan finds an indirect link between deployment, combat and self-destructive urges, according to a paper published Thursday.

Want to feel 10 years younger? Own a dog! Pets not only keep you active they can also make you feel and act younger, a new study has found.

A new performance improvement initiative for physicians has been found to significantly increase their use of evidence-based practices in screening for and treating depression .

Teen adolescence is becoming a prevalent issue within the nation and it's never been more important to understand it.

An intervention program aimed at helping obese women maintain their weight without adding pounds also significantly reduced depression in nearly half the participants, according to a new study from Duke University.

Dori Steinberg, lead author, said that the interventions that focus on maintaining one's weight, may have more widespread effects and that, they were able to reduce depression, among a population that was severely socioeconomically disadvantaged and had limited access to depression treatment, the result of which was comparable to what is seen with ... (more)

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The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology / official scientific journal of the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum , Vol.