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March 2008



Cognitive therapy may be more effective than grief counseling

Monday, 31 March 2008 8:25 A GMT+01
Strong feelings of grief are normal and healthy after the death of someone you love but recent research from UNSW suggests that some people grieve for so long that it becomes a significant mental illness.
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Teenage brain changes impact cognition, emotion and behavior

Monday, 31 March 2008 8:22 A GMT+01
Many parents are convinced that the brains of their teenage offspring are different than those of children and adults. New data confirms that this is the case.
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Stomach pain, depression go hand-in-hand in teens

Monday, 31 March 2008 8:17 A GMT+01
Adolescents who regularly have abdominal pain face a substantially higher risk of depressive symptoms than those who seldom have abdominal pain, according to research published in the March issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Exercise important in managing stress

Friday, 28 March 2008 8:34 A GMT+01
Though causes of stress can be plentiful, there are multiple ways to combat stressors and the negative toll they can take on the body,
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PTSD associated with greater healthcare utilization

Friday, 28 March 2008 8:20 A GMT+01
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with more hospitalizations, longer hospitalizations and greater mental healthcare utilization
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Risk of depressive symptoms increased with metabolic syndrome

Friday, 28 March 2008 8:18 A GMT+01
MedWire News: The metabolic syndrome may be an important predisposing factor for the development of depression, say Finnish researchers who suggest that effective metabolic syndrome prevention and treatment could reduce rates of depression.

Agoraphobia is a distinct disorder

Thursday, 27 March 2008 9:02 A GMT+01
A landmark epidemiological study conducted by Hans-Ulrich Wittchen and collaborators at the University of Dresden has found that agoraphobia is a distinct disorder independent of panic disorder.
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What is the best strategy for antidepressant non-responders?

Thursday, 27 March 2008 8:57 A GMT+01
When your antidepressant medication does not work, should you switch to a different medication from the same class or should you try an antidepressant medication that has a different mechanism of action?
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Electroconvulsive therapy does not impair cognition after a single session

Thursday, 27 March 2008 8:51 A GMT+01
MedWire News: Psychiatric outpatients who receive a single session of maintenance electroconvulsive (ECT) therapy do not experience a subsequent decline in learning, attention, or executive function, a Spanish study has found.

Culture gap [in the symptoms of mental illness]

Thursday, 27 March 2008 8:49 A GMT+01
In other countries, symptoms of mental illness vary, with treatments that American doctors are just beginning to appreciate - Heap You's doctors thought she was crazy.

How suffering and happiness merge to form depression

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:27 A GMT+01
In Love and Death, Woody Allen wrote: "To love is to suffer...To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer." The paradoxical merging of happiness and suffering can be a feature of depression.
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Childhood social problems contribute to later anxiety and depression

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:21 A GMT+01
Socially successful children tend to have fewer symptoms of anxiety or depression, while children with problems such as anxiety and depression tend to have difficulties forming relationships and being accepted by friends.
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Poly antidepressant treatment and diabetes risk

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:16 A GMT+01
While analyzing data from Saskatchewan health databases, Lauren Brown, a researcher with the University of Alberta School of Public Health, found people with a history of depression had a 30 per cent increased risk of type 2 Diabetes.
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Social anxiety disorder strongly associated with risk of depression

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:10 A GMT+01
Social anxiety disorder, regardless of age of onset, is consistently associated with strongly increased risk for subsequent depression, according to 10-year results of the large prospective Early Developmental Stages of Psychopathology Study.

FDA issues warning about 'Blue Steel' and 'Hero' dietary supplements

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:04 A GMT+01
The U.S. FDA is advising consumers not to purchase or use "Blue Steel" or "Hero" products marketed as dietary supplements throughout the United States because they are considered unapproved drugs and have not been proven to be safe or effective.

Abstract: Effects of Valerian on the level of 5-hydroxytryptamine, cell proliferation and neurons in cerebral hippocampus of rats with depression induced by chronic mild stress.

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7:54 A GMT+01
Objective: To explore the effects of Valerian on the level of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), cell proliferation and neuron number in cerebral hippocampus of rats with depression induced by chronic mild stress.

The genetic ying and yang of clinical depression

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7:51 A GMT+01
Individual genes do not cause depression, but they are thought to increase the probability of an individual having a depression in the face of other accumulating risk factors, such as other genes and environmental stressors.
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Treatment planning for panic disorder

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7:48 A GMT+01
Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia is a chronic, debilitating psychiatric illness that affects about 4.7% of the general US population. Kessler et al report that close to one third of the general population has met criteria for panic disorder

EPIX ceases development of PRX-00023 for depression

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7:45 A GMT+01
EPIX Pharmaceuticals has announced that the company is discontinuing clinical development of PRX-00023 due to lack of significant efficacy shown in the recently completed Phase 2b trial in patients with major depressive disorder.

Single injection may protect against Lyme disease and Anaplasmosis

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7:40 A GMT+01
Lyme disease is the blight of countryside users but it may be prevented with a single injection, according to research published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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How psychological stress flips the brain between 'desire' and 'dread'

Thursday, 20 March 2008 9:00 A GMT+01
A single brain circuit mediates desire and dread according to a new study by the University of Michigan (U-M). Entering a noisy, new environment can instantly flip an emotion switch.
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Reappraising negative emotions often a better mental health strategy than suppressing them

Thursday, 20 March 2008 8:53 A GMT+01
Emotions play an important role in the lives of humans, and influence our behavior, thoughts, decisions, and interactions. The ability to regulate emotions is essential to both mental and physical well-being.
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Study finds biomarker for depression

Thursday, 20 March 2008 8:45 A GMT+01
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine researchers have discovered that a change in the location of a protein in the brain could serve as a biomarker for depression,
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Drug's efficacy for treating depression ‘exciting’

Thursday, 20 March 2008 8:40 A GMT+01
Mecamylamine, an old, rarely prescribed, truly obscure antihypertensive agent, may be favorably reincarnated as an antidepressant with a completely novel mechanism of action-and vastly greater potential use.

Stress damages the brain

Wednesday, 19 March 2008 8:23 A GMT+01
Individuals who experience military combat obviously endure extreme stress, and this exposure leaves many diagnosed with the psychiatric condition of PTSD. PTSD is associated with several abnormalities in brain structure and function.
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