Extended-release niacin effective in low doses for diabetics, say UT Southwestern researchers
...s and other lipid-related abnormalities along with depressed levels of the healthier high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. "Niacin therapy has been discouraged by clinicians because high doses can worsen glycemic control in patients with diabetes," said Dr. Gloria Vega, a professor of clinical nutrition ...A message from nature to muskrats: 'Dont chill out'
...n_diego/home.htm Based on the premise that DMR is depressed with hypothermia, the research team predicted a parallel reduction in diving heart rate. Beat-to-beat changes in heart rate during submergence were also analyzed to determine if the pattern of bradycardia normally observed during diving is affected ...UT Southwestern researcher, colleagues report drug therapy eases chronic depression
...Zoloft - can enhance the lives of many chronically depressed patients. The team's findings also showed that discontinuing treatment to patients courts relapse and loss of psychosocial skills. Dr. John Rush, an internationally known depression researcher who is vice chairman of research in psychiatry at UT Sout...Elderly patients denied best treatment for fear of side effects
... difficulties for older people. Patients who are depressed before treatment begins, patients who lack autonomy and those living in institution are at risk of toxicity and the treatment may be less effective. "Perhaps this is because they are more fragile and need more care than elderly women who lead indepe...Is there a common genetic link for depression and cardiovascular disease?
...-3-T alleles in depressive patients, as 17% of the depressed patients, but only 3% of the controls, had the same allelic combination of those two genes, that were previously shown to increase the risk for myocardial infarction. As these combined alleles are present only in a subset of patients, one might argue...Psychiatry receives grant establishing Conte Center to study molecular and cellular mood mechanisms
...ychomotor activity and mental states often seen in depressed patients. Dr. Tom Wilkie, associate professor of pharmacology, is focusing on the ability of regulators of G protein signaling (RGS) proteins in regulating mood and motivation. Scientists from Harvard University and Yale University will collaborate ...USF study: Nicotine antagonist relieves depression in children with Tourette's
...icial effect appeared to be stabilizing mood. The depressed patients treated with the placebo showed no benefi...ggest that another way antidepressants may improve depressed moods is by blocking acetylcholine's excess activation of nicotine receptors," said investigator Pau...Cocaine harms brain's 'pleasure center,' addict study finds
...caused by cocaine use. Researchers have found that depressed cocaine users have more severe addiction and menta...d other depressive disorders. This may explain why depressed cocaine users are less likely to respond to some depression treatments. In all, Little says, "We cou...Symposium on how 'nature and nurture' impact child development
...iological alterations witnessed in the children of depressed mothers. Important parallels to the preclinical l...ibe the clinical implications for the treatment of depressed mothers including its role as a primary preventive care measure for children exposed to the untoward...Researchers find possible link between pre-natal alcohol consumption and diabetes
...can accompany fetal alcohol syndrome may be due to depressed vasopressinergic brain systems....Virginia Tech inventions, creations can improve lives
...phyte-infected forage treated with the supplement, depressed immune function is reversed and enhanced. The enhanced immune function continues to the feedlot finishing phase even though no supplement is fed in that phase. Giving the supplement to pigs exposed to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome to ...Many pregnant women may have depression, but few getting treatment, study finds
...ation-based evidence has also shown that babies of depressed mothers do worse at birth, and beyond, than other ... that the vast majority of currently or previously depressed women -- 86 percent of those with current symptoms, 88 percent of those with lifetime history of dep...Nitric oxide has important role in fever regulation, new study says
...volved in that. When inducible nitric oxide is not depressed after a while, we continue to have fever because induction of this enzyme correlates with maintaining fever. For the fever to go down, it has to go down," says Dr. Kozak, who has followed the path of fever/inflammation for more than 20 years. This s...Heart drug might help fight chronic fungal infections
...n general are easy to get rid of, in patients with depressed immune systems or with conditions like cystic fibr...ing, some fungi can be pretty nasty in people with depressed immune systems. In laboratory experiments, low doses of amiodarone combined with fluconazole killed ...Depression in African-American men may be barrier to high blood pressure control
...etween depression and high blood pressure, but the depressed men were five times more likely to abuse alcohol, ...of care for hypertensive patients. "People who are depressed are more likely to use alcohol or drugs and less likely to take their medication or follow a low-sal...Gene helps determine whether the stresses of life push you into depression, Science study says
...e gene are two and a half times more likely to get depressed than people with the most protective version of th...t year when a person falls into a permanently sad, depressed mood. A depressed person loses interest in activities and no longer derives pleasure from life. Thei...Gene more than doubles risk of depression following life stresses
...rt gene variant appears to predict who will become depressed following life stress about as well as a test for bone mineral density predicts who will get a fractured hip after falling, it's not yet ready for use as a diagnostic test, Moffitt cautioned. If confirmed, it may eventually be used in conjunction wit...Could a specific protein contribute to erectile dysfunction for the diabetic and obese?
...sis that in diabetic-obese Zucker rats, there is a depressed erectile response caused by increased action of the vasoconstrictor pathway involving PKC in a key sensitization process. A New Study The authors of a new study entitled "Altered Penile Vascular Reactivity and Erection of the Zucker Rat: A Role fo...Stanford research finds gene variations that alter antidepressant side effects
...ind, the researchers analyzed DNA samples from 246 depressed patients who were randomly assigned either paroxetine (marketed as Paxil) or mirtazapine (marketed as Remeron) for eight weeks. All of the patients studied in 18 U.S. outpatient clinics were 65 years of age or older. Side effects are particularly rel...