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Ketamine reduces suicidality in depressed patients
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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Drug treatment options for depression can take weeks for the beneficial effects to emerge, which is clearly inadequate for those at immediate risk of suicide. However, intravenous (IV) ketamine, a drug previously used as ...
Meditation provides hope for people with depression
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People with severe and recurrent depression could benefit from a new form of therapy that combines ancient forms of meditation with modern cognitive behaviour therapy, early-stage research ...
Depression Dramatically Raises Risk of Death From Heart Attack, Stroke
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Doctors have long noticed that depression dramatically increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and death after a heart attack, but for years they have been lacking the pieces of the puzzle that would explain why.
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Weight loss improves mood in depressed people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that after a 6-month behavioral ...
Who benefits from antidepressants?
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients.
Measuring Depression
Sep 05, 2007 |
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It's hardly surprising that clinically depressed people act differently than healthy people. Quantifying the difference, however, can be difficult. Now a collaboration of physicists and psychiatrists in Japan has found a ...
Depression Causes Malfunctions in Brain's Pleasure Center
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Clinically depressed individuals are less capable of finding pleasure in activities they previously enjoyed, a recent study has proven. Research featured in the August 26 issue of the NeuroReport shows reduced brain function ...
Can Family Therapy Help The Depressed Patient?
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Apr 07, 2009 |
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A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics suggests that single-family and multi-family therapy may benefit hospitalized patients with major depression, and may help the partners of the patients ...
Depression diversity: Brain studies reveal big differences among individuals
May 08, 2008 |
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Depressed people may have far fewer of the receptors for some of the brain’s “feel good” stress-response chemicals than non-depressed people, new University of Michigan Depression Center research shows.
Depression may increase exacerbations, hospitalizations in COPD
Oct 24, 2008 |
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It is well known that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently suffer from depression and anxiety, but according to new research, depression and anxiety may actually cause increased hospitalizations ...
Mental health treatment extends lives of older patients with diabetes and depression
Dec 05, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report that older adults with diabetes and depression are half as likely to die over a 5-year period when they receive depression care management than depressed ...
Depression after stroke: A neglected problem
Jul 09, 2008 |
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People who have had a stroke and the people who are close to them need more support in order to manage the consequences of stroke. As well as the physical disabilities, the psychological burden is difficult to cope with. ...
Use of antidepressants associated with improvement in symptoms of fibromyalgia
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 13, 2009 |
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The use of antidepressant medications by patients with fibromyalgia syndrome is associated with a reduction in pain, sleep disturbances and depressed mood and improvement of health-related quality of life, according to an ...
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