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Psychosocial therapy with antidepressants more effective in helping depressed stroke patients

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Psychosocial therapy combined with medication can effectively improve depression and recovery in stroke patients, according to a new study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.


Newer Antidepressants Not Always Better

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created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Old standby Zoloft? Late-model Lexapro? New antidepressants might be no more effective than the best existing drugs, according to two new systematic reviews that compared 12 commonly used medications.





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Study identifies 3 effective treatments for childhood anxiety disorders

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created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Treatment that combines a certain type of psychotherapy with an antidepressant medication is most likely to help children with anxiety disorders, but each of the treatments alone is also effective, according to a new study ...


Relapse common among women who stop taking antidepressant medication for premenstrual syndrome

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created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

About half of women whose symptoms of severe premenstrual syndrome are relieved by the antidepressant sertraline appear to experience relapse within six to eight months after stopping medication, according to a report in ...


Use of omega-3 with treatment for depression in heart disease patients may not provide benefit

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Contrary to the findings of some studies, new research indicates that augmenting antidepressant therapy with an omega-3 fatty acid supplement does not result in improvement in levels of depression in patients with coronary ...


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Researchers look at cannabinoids, genes, medicines and brain scans to find better anxiety treatments

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created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 6

Right now, about half of all people who take medicine for an anxiety disorder don’t get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won’t, benefit from each anti-anxiety ...


Treating SSRI-resistant depression

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created Mar 25, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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" This is the question ...


Depression treatment diagnostics studied

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created Oct 31, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

U.S. scientists say they are working on research that might lead to the first diagnostic test to guide the treatment of depression.


As depression symptoms improve with antidepressants, hopelessness can linger

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created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

People taking medication for depression typically see a lot of improvements in their symptoms during the first few months, but lagging behind other areas is a sense of hopefulness, according to new research from the University ...


Who benefits from antidepressants?

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created Feb 26, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 4

A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients.


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Link Between Antidepressants and Birth Defect

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Denmark have studied almost half a million Danish children and found a slightly higher rate of septal heart abnormalities in babies whose mothers took an SSRI antidepressant ...


Link found between depression, early stages of chronic kidney disease

Link found between depression, early stages of chronic kidney disease

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created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

One in five patients with chronic kidney disease is depressed, even before beginning long-term dialysis therapy or developing end-stage renal disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.



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