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Depression (mood)
hideIn the fields of psychology and psychiatry, the terms depression or depressed refer to sadness and other related emotions and behaviors. It can be thought of as either a disease or a syndrome.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) states that a depressed mood is often reported as feeling sad, helpless, and hopeless. In traditional colloquy, "depressed" is often synonymous with "sad," but both clinical depression and non-clinical depression can also refer to a conglomeration of more than one feeling.
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News tagged with depression
Study: Life and death during the Great Depression
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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The Great Depression had a silver lining: During that hard time, U.S. life expectancy actually increased by 6.2 years, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the Na ...
Using Brain Waves to Help Treat Depression
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers conducted a study at 9 sites in the U.S. with 375 people suffering from major depression. The testing takes about 15 minutes and could help people suffering from depression find ...
Scientist Probes Promising Link Between Warmth, Better Moods
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder scientist who discovered that playing in the dirt might ease depression is probing the link between higher temperatures and elevated mood.
Under a cloud -- darkness linked to 'brain drain' in depressed people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 28, 2009 |
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A lack of sunlight is associated with reduced cognitive function among depressed people. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health used weather data from NASA satellites to measure sunlig ...
Depression does 'make your brown eyes blue'
May 05, 2009 |
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It's more than just feeling bad. Clinical depression affects the way we process information in the brain, negatively affecting memory, attention span, and the brain's ability to learn new things. Now Tel ...
The herbal remedy: Teens use cannabis for relief, not recreation
Apr 22, 2009 |
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When legal therapies let them down, some teens turn to cannabis. A new study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Substance Abuse, Treatment, Prevention and Policy suggests that around a third of teens who sm ...
Grinch likely depressed, suffers from lack of love, joy, expert says (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are also hallmarks of depression, and could explain the Grinch's disdain for the Who -- the tall and the small -- his mistreatment of his dog Max and, ...
Antidepressant Can Change Patient's Personality
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The nation is still debating the effects of antidepressant medications on brain chemistry almost 20 years after publication of the best-seller "Listening to Prozac." Though selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ...
Is cannabis the answer to Booze Britain's problems?
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Substituting cannabis in place of more harmful drugs may be a winning strategy in the fight against substance misuse. Research published in BioMed Central' open access Harm Reduction Journal features a poll of 350 cannab ...
Depression as deadly as smoking, but anxiety may be good for you
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2009 |
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A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.
Processed, high-fat foods linked with depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People who eat a diet laden with processed and high-fat foods may put themselves at greater risk of depression, according to UCL (University College London) research published today.
'Culture of we' buffers genetic tendency to depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 27, 2009 |
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A genetic tendency to depression is much less likely to be realized in a culture centered on collectivistic rather than individualistic values, according to a new Northwestern University study.
Why antidepressants don't work for so many
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 23, 2009 |
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More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research ...
BPA linked to aggressive behavior in young girls, research suggests
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Pre-birth exposure to a chemical widely used in plastics appears to be linked to more aggressive behavior in little girls, according to research published Tuesday by a scientist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel ...
Strong link between obesity and depression
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Doctors should pay more attention to the link between common mental illness and obesity in patients because the two health problems are closely linked, according to researchers at the University of Adelaide.
