Depression
Scientists Theorize that Chronic Depression Is Linked to Brain Inflammation
A new study from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that chronic depression is an error in a neurobiological process that can be adapted and repaired. The researchers theorize that chronic depression comes from deep-rooted mechanisms the body uses to deal with physical injury.
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Study Identifies Association between Vitamin D Deficiency and Depression in Older Adults
It appears that older adults who do not get enough vital vitamin D are at a greater risk for depression. A recent Medscape article focused on a British national survey of older adults. This survey found that those with a clinical deficiency of vitamin D have a significant association with depressive symptoms.
National Depression Screening Day
In honor of Mental Illness Awareness Week, the nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health, Inc. will be sponsoring the annual National Depression Screening Day on October 7, 2010. Since 1991, Screening for Mental Health has been hosting the awareness event that is intended to reach a large-scale proportion of the public by offering free, anonymous mental health care screening, education, and treatment resources both online and at available visitor locations.
Depression Greater Among Victims of Cyberbullying
A recent study by researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that adolescents who are victims of cyberbullying at school have a higher risk of depression than their aggressors.
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Safer Form of Ketamine Could Be Developed to Quickly Treat Severe Depression
Most anti-depressants take weeks or sometimes months to take effect, which can be difficult for those suffering from severe depression or anxiety. Researchers from Yale University have now found that the drug ketamine can take effect within hours. The drug has already been very effective in treating severely depressed patients, and researchers hope this finding will lead to the development of a safer, easier-to-use form of the drug.
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Undiagnosed Depression in Cardiac Patients is Life Threatening
It is not unreasonable to believe that an individual who has had a near-death experience and is struggling to recover would feel some level of depression. In fact, for cardiac recovery patients who are slow to recovery, their depression could lead to hospital readmissions or even death.
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Study Shows Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury More Likely to Experience Major Depression
It appears that a traumatic brain injury can do more than just cause a physical upset in an individual’s life. According to a recent Science Daily release, the majority of patients also experienced major depression.
Late-Life Depression More Difficult to Treat
For many medical professionals, it is not uncommon to find late-life depression more difficult to treat. Now, scientists have found an important clue in the effort to understand why and how to keep patients well over time.
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Dads Suffer from Postpartum Depression, Too
About 10 percent of fathers experience prenatal or postpartum depression, with rates being highest in the 3 to 6 month postpartum period, according to an analysis of previous research appearing in the May 19 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on mental health. James F. Paulson, Ph.D., of the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va., presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing on mental health.
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Resilience Factor Low in Mice with Depression
Scientists have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain resilience to stress, vulnerability to depression and how antidepressants work. The new findings, in the reward circuit of mouse and human brains, have spurred a high tech dragnet for compounds that boost the action of a key gene regulator there, called deltaFosB.
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