Depression News

An updated manual of guidelines for the diagnosis of mental disorders goes on sale Wednesday after stoking long-standing controversy over its new characterization of some disorders, including combining autism disorder and Asperger's syndrome as different levels of the same problem.

Neuronetics presented new data showing its NeuroStar TMS Therapy System was not only effective in the immediate treatment of patients suffering from depression, but sustained those results through one year of treatment.

Our young people are under more pressure than ever before, according to Michaela McDaid, Education and Training Co-ordinator with Aware Defeat Depression.

Depression can affect almost every aspect of life, but some of the changes brought about by the disorder can be downright dangerous for those with diabetes.

Depressed cancer survivors are twice as likely to die prematurely than those who do not suffer from depression, irrespective of the cancer site.

Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered specific chemical alterations in two genes that, when present during pregnancy, reliably predict whether a woman will develop postpartum depression.

Alteration of 2 genes, detectable by simple blood test during pregnancy, foretold illness with 85 percent certainty in small study The epigenetic modifications, which alter the way genes function without changing the underlying DNA sequence, can apparently be detected in the blood of pregnant women during any trimester, potentially providing a ... (more)

Clinical studies demonstrate efficacy at doses of 15 mg and 20 mg per day including an improvement of overall functioning Valby, Denmark, 18 May 2013 - H. Lundbeck A/S and partner Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today announced that the companies will be presenting new data on four pivotal studies on vortioxetine, a novel investigational drug ... (more)

Steven Soderberg's alleged last big screen directorial effort, "Side Effects" is a throwback thriller with a clever script and some neato twists.

Patients with treatment-resistant major depression saw dramatic improvement in their illness after treatment with ketamine, an anesthetic, according to the largest ketamine clinical trial to-date led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Depressed middle-aged women have almost double the risk of having a stroke, according to research published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

In any given year, up to 1 in 5 U.S. children has a mental health disorder, a new report says.

Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the new wars being launched far away and at home - and of despair.

As many as one in five children aged 3 to 17 years old experiences a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

One in five children in the United States has a mental illness. After ADHD , conduct disorder, anxiety, depression, and autism spectrum disorder are the most prevalent mental health issues among U.S. children.

HOME WORK, the new anti-bullying musical, takes a look at the "dark side of high school" focusing on bullying, depression, suicide, gun violence, fitting in, and relationships.

They lost their children to suicide; since that time Elaine Roberts and Kathy Wakefield have raised awareness for depression and suicide.

The World Health Organization estimates that by 2020 heart disease and depression will be the number one and number two leading causes of disability in developed countries.

These data will be presented at the 2013 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in The objective of these four studies was to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of vortioxetine in doses ranging from 10-20 mg per day, complementing other studies in the New Drug Application submission package that included dose ranges of 5-20 mg per ... (more)

Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck and Japanese partner Takeda said on Saturday that data from clinical phase III studies with the antidepressant vortioxetine had shown significant improvement in patients' symptoms.