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09/02/2010 06:00 AM
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Why Does Anxiety Target Women More? FSU Researcher Awarded $1.8M Grant To Find Out
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Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1...
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09/02/2010 06:00 AM
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Hearts & Minds: NAMI Highlights Meditation, Yoga And Other "Mindfulness" Practices For Mental Illness
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The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is providing a new dimension to its Hearts & Minds initiative, an educational program that promotes "mind and body" health practices for individuals who live with mental illness...
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09/01/2010 09:00 AM
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Less Than 5 Hours Sleep Linked To Higher Mental Illness Risk
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Young healthy adults aged between 17 and 24 years who get less than an average of 5 hours' sleep each night have three times the risk of developing a mental illness compared to individuals of the same age who sleep eight to nine hours every night, according to a study carried out by the George Institute on Global Health, published in the medical journal Sleep...
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09/01/2010 06:00 AM
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Young Black Women At Increased Risk Of Self-Harm, Study Shows
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Young, Black women are significantly more likely to self-harm than people from other ethnic groups, according to new research published in the September issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry...
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09/01/2010 05:00 AM
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NAMI Raises Concern For Impact Of Mental Health Care Budget Cuts On Low-Income Mothers And Infants; Urban Institute Study Released
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The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has raised added concern about a study released by The Urban Institute that shows more than one-half of babies in poverty are being raised by mothers living with depression -- creating parenting and child development challenges...
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09/01/2010 05:00 AM
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New Social Intervention To Help Pakistani Women With Depression
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Researchers from the University of Manchester have developed a social intervention to help British Pakistani women with depression. Their 10-week programme, which was trialled in the north-west of England, helped the women feel more positive and improved their satisfaction and social functioning. The findings are published in the September issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry...
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09/01/2010 03:00 AM
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Study Findings Show Value Of Dietary Supplement SAMe In Treatment Of Adults With Major Depressive Disorders
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A new study conducted by investigators at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) suggests that S-Adenosyl Methionine (SAMe), an over-the-counter dietary supplement, can be an effective, relatively well-tolerated, adjunctive treatment for adults with major depressive disorders who do not respond to their treatment with antidepressant medication...
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09/01/2010 03:00 AM
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Naurex's Novel Antidepressant GLYX-13 Recognized As One Of Windhover's Top 10 Neuroscience Projects To Watch
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Naurex Inc., a clinical stage company developing innovative treatments for depression and other CNS disorders, reported that its clinical stage candidate for the treatment of depression, GLYX-13, and its second-generation NRX-1050 series have been selected for inclusion on Windhover's list of the "Top 10 Most Interesting Neuroscience Projects to Watch...
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08/31/2010 06:00 AM
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Neural Clues To The Calming Effects Of Self-Harm
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The notion that cutting or burning oneself could provide relief from emotional distress is difficult to understand for most people, but it is an experience reported commonly among people who compulsively hurt themselves. Individuals with borderline personality disorder experience intense emotions and often show a deficiency of emotion regulation skills...
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08/31/2010 06:00 AM
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Defining Depression At The Neurobiological Level
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Depression is actually defined by specific clinical symptoms such as sadness, difficulty to experience pleasure, sleep problems etc., present for at least two weeks, with impairment of psychosocial functioning. These symptoms guide the physician to make a diagnosis and to select antidepressant treatment such as drugs or psychotherapy...
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08/31/2010 05:00 AM
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Circadian Rhythms: Their Role And Dysfunction In Affective Disorder
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All humans are synchronised to the rhythmic light-dark changes that occur on a daily basis. Rhythms in physiological and biochemical processes and behavioural patterns persist in the absence of all external 24-hour signals from the physical environment, with a period that is close to 24 hours...
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08/31/2010 05:00 AM
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Ecopsychology Journal Explores The Devastating Psychological Effects Of The BP Gulf Disaster
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Anger, depression, and helplessness are the main psychological responses being seen in response to the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and they are likely to have long-lasting effects, according to an interview in Ecopsychology, a peer-reviewed, online journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The interview is available free online here...
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08/31/2010 02:00 AM
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Gay Byrne Calls On Older Irish People To Look After Their Mental Health
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Broadcaster Gay Byrne launched a new campaign to raise awareness of depression and the importance of mental health in later life. The campaign, by Lundbeck (Ireland) Ltd and supported by Age and Opportunity, is targeting older people who may be reluctant to talk to their doctors about their mental health. Many factors can trigger a period of depression...
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08/30/2010 02:00 PM
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Teenage Smoking Linked To Higher Depression Risk
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According to a recent sub-study, part of long-term Nicotine Dependence in Teens (NDIT) study based at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, University of Toronto and the University of Montreal, professionals discovered that smoking can increase depressive symptoms in teens...
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08/30/2010 03:00 AM
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Higher Rates Of Depression Found Among Low-Income New Mothers, Study Says
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More than 50% of infants in poverty are raised by mothers with mild to severe depression, which could contribute to problems in parenting and child development, according to a study by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute, the Washington Post reports...
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08/30/2010 01:00 AM
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Innovative Federal Partnership To Study Combat Related Substance Use And Abuse
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Eleven research institutions in 11 states will receive more than $6 million in federal funding from fiscal year 2010 to support research on substance abuse and associated problems among U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families...
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08/29/2010 01:00 AM
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Smaller Babies Delivered By Depressed Mothers
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Clinical depression and anxiety during pregnancy results in smaller babies that are more likely to die in infancy, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The study, which focused on women living in rural Bangladesh, provides the first finding of its kind in a non-Western population...
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08/27/2010 01:00 AM
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Mothers Abused By Partners See Decline In Mental Health Even After Relationship Ends
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Even after leaving a violent or controlling relationship, the mental health of mothers may actually get worse before it gets better, a new study suggests. Researchers found that in the two years after the end of an abusive relationship, mothers showed poorer mental health, became more depressed and maintained high levels of anxiety...
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08/26/2010 01:00 AM
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Disruption Of Circadian Rhythms By Chronic Drinking
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Circadian rhythmicity is regulated by circadian clock genes, and animal studies have shown that chronic drinking can alter expressions in these genes...
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08/21/2010 01:00 AM
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New Study Finds New Connection Between Yoga And Mood
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that yoga may be superior to other forms of exercise in its positive effect on mood and anxiety. The findings, which currently appear on-line at Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, is the first to demonstrate an association between yoga postures, increased GABA levels and decreased anxiety...
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08/20/2010 10:00 AM
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New Form Of Ketamine Treats Depression "Like Magic"
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"It's like a magic drug", said the lead researcher of a team from Yale University in the US whose latest study suggests that ketamine, a drug normally used as an anasthetic, could be reformulated as an anti-depressant that takes effect in hours rather than the usual weeks and months of most available medications...
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08/20/2010 07:00 AM
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Skin Condition Associated With Depression, Anxiety And Suicidal Feelings
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Individuals with psoriasis appear to have an increased risk of depression, anxiety and suicidality, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Psoriasis affects 1 percent to 3 percent of the general population, and estimates suggest 0.4 percent to 2.3 percent of adults have the condition but have not been diagnosed...
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08/19/2010 07:00 AM
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Sun Pharma Announces USFDA Approval For Generic Venlafaxine Extended Release Tablets
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Sun Pharma announced that USFDA has granted an approval for an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Venlafaxine Hydrochloride Extended Release tablets. These generic extended release Venlafaxine tablets are therapeutically equivalent to Osmotica's Venlafaxine Hydrochloride Extended Release tablets and include three strengths: 37...
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08/19/2010 01:00 AM
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Health Visitors Can Prevent Postnatal Depression Says Pioneering New Study
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The world's first ever analysis of data from a full scale clinical trial in adults shows that training Health Visitors to assess and psychologically support mothers after childbirth can prevent the development of depression over the following year...
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08/18/2010 01:00 AM
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Detecting Depression In Caretakers Of Mentally Ill Adults
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A diagnostic test of eight short questions designed by Jaclene Zauszniewski from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University can be used to detect depressive thinking patterns that lead to clinical depression in women who care for an adult family member with a serious mental illness...
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