Immigration, lack of partner support are postpartum
...actors in predicting whether women will experience depressive symptoms soon after giving birth, says a Universit...dicts which mothers are at high risk of developing depressive symptoms in the early postpartum period. Their study, published in the fall issue of Acta Psychiatri...Rush University Medical Center testing magnetic stimulation for depression
...ween 18 and 70 years old. suffering from a major depressive disorder. able to provide written documentation that they have been unsuccessfully treated previously with antidepressant medication. Patients who have been diagnosed with bipolar illness (manic depression) or obsessive-compulsive disorder are n...New studies on Ritalin and Alzheimer's Disease highlight ACNP Annual Meeting
...n children may lead to a higher risk of developing depressive symptoms in adulthood. Lemons, Lilac Among Top 10 Smells That Could Predict Alzheimer's Disease: Finds that for patients with minimal to mild cognitive impairment, a 10-smell odor identification is a better predictor of Alzheimer's Disease t...New study shows early ritalin may cause long-term effects on the brain
...n children may lead to a higher risk of developing depressive symptoms in adulthood. This work, released at the annual American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) conference in Puerto Rico, is among the first to examine the effects of early Ritalin exposure in rats on behavior and brain function during...Shire receives US FDA approval of EQUETRO (TM) for bipolar disorder
... treatment. EQUETRO showed improvement in treating depressive symptoms in mixed patients who suffer both significant depression and mania at the same time. Having a new drug treatment option that is effective for bipolar disorder without causing significant weight gain or blood sugar changes is a very important...Mice with depression-like behaviors reveal possible source of human depression
...itors and regulates the hormone. People with major depressive disorder release excessive amounts of adrenal hormones, including glucocorticoid, possibly because their brains sense stress differently, according to the researchers. "We wanted to find out if depression stems directly from the inability to sense g...News briefs from the journal Chest, January 2005
...treatment preferences, but that a higher burden of depressive symptoms was significantly associated with a preference against CPR, although it was not associated with preference for mechanical ventilation. Researchers conclude that clinicians should recognize the influence depression may have on patient treat...Depression caused by common treatment for hepatitis C may affect outcome
...and colleagues, observed that patients who develop depressive symptoms during interferon-alpha plus ribavirin therapy were significantly less likely to have cleared the hepatitis C virus from their blood following six months of treatment. "Hepatitis C infection affects three to five million Americans, and is ...Collaborative care, training boosts adolescent depression treatment in primary care clinics
...ession (31 percent vs. 42 percent), reported fewer depressive symptoms, improved quality of life, and greater sa...f youth suffer from clinical depression. Impairing depressive symptoms are reported by 28 percent of high school students during the past year. Research has ident...Program effective at reducing depression in teens
...adolescents report periods during the past year of depressive symptoms leading to impairment, according to backg...e patients, aged 13 through 21 years, with current depressive symptoms. The participants were from 5 health care organizations purposively selected to include ma...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...in, had less trouble falling asleep, and had fewer depressive symptoms than younger members of their racial group. Even after the researchers corrected for differences in the number of months the patients had lived with their pain, and for differences in gender, marital status and education, the effects remaine...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... of adolescents and young adults will experience a depressive episode by age 24, yet fewer than 20 percent recei... young adults aged 16 to 29 years with significant depressive symptoms, more than one quarter (26 percent) of the participants said they did not intend to accept ...Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
...ate depression in adults aged 20 to 45 showed that depressive symptoms were reduced almost 50 percent in individ...ee or five days per week experienced a decline in depressive symptoms by an average of 47 percent after 12 weeks. Those in the low-intensity exercise groups show...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
... out how important it is to identify patients with depressive symptoms early and provide the appropriate treatment or support," Jiang said. While this and other studies have demonstrated links between depression and worse outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease, the mechanisms behind the correlation ...Treating depression helps slow physical decline in older adults, study shows
...ollowed 1,801 patients age 60 and older with major depressive symptoms for 12 months. Participants in the IMPACT study, the largest clinical trial of late-life depression reported to date, were from 18 primary care clinics across the United States. "Patients with late-life depression often experience a downw......come single mothers have a very high prevalence of depressive symptoms. This research, led by Ann Peden, ARNP, ... more than 75% scored in the mild to high range of depressive symptoms based on well-know measurement scales. Results support previous research in this area tha...