Embargoed Jan./Feb. Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ES QUALITY OF DEPRESSION CARE Quality of care for depression is improved when patients participate actively in the patient-physician encounter and when physicians explore and validate patient concerns. This analysis of data from a randomized trial that included 152 primary care physicians found that physician...Psychosocial factors associated with higher levels of inflammatory markers
...res that assessed the psychosocial risk factors of depression and chronic stress. Cynical distrust was measured...y positive association with the CRP level, whereas depression was associated only with the IL-6 level." "Associations of psychosocial factors with inflammatory m...UIC receives grant to find new drugs for bipolar disorder
...with bipolar disorder can quickly go from mania to depression and back again. Safe, selective GSK-3 inhibitors are needed as both pharmacological tools and as therapeutics for application to a variety of central nervous system disorders, including several bipolar disorders, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's...Treatment for homeless youth pays off in long run, study finds
...am significantly reduced their substance abuse and depression and increased their social stability, including the number of days living off the streets, compared to those who received standard treatment. "Homeless youth are often seen as difficult to engage and difficult to treat," said Natasha Slesnick, lea...Binge drinking, gender and clinical depression
Alcohol consumption and depression have a complicated relationship. New findings indicate that depression is primarily related to binge drinking. The relationship between major clinical depression and al...Journal Sleep: Link between insomnia and hypersomnia, depression in children
...ith either insomnia or hypersomnia. "We know that depression is associated with sleep problems. But what this ...ble'. Youths having both of these had more severe depression than youths with just one sleep problem. This means that we should carefully ask depressed youths a...Child abuse and neglect associated with increased risk of depression among young adults
...ected during childhood have a higher risk of major depression when they become young adults, according to a repo...rchives journals. Child abuse has been linked to depression in clinical populations and community surveys, according to background information in the article. ...Psychological treatments improve outcomes for back pain sufferers
... approaches improve psychological outcomes such as depression and health-related quality of life, they also reduce patients' experience of pain. "Because this analysis was both more inclusive and more conservative than previous reviews, we have the best evidence to date that these interventions are helpful,"...Doubts cast on organophosphate poisoning as cause of Gulf War Syndrome depression
... that organophosphate poisoning causes symptoms of depression among Gulf War veterans and farmers, who are expos...c variant were significantly more likely to report depression than those without, the findings showed. These new findings suggest that the association of this g...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, December 2006
...stically significant improvement in both cough and depression scores after 3 months of treatment. In addition, i...score correlated significantly with improvement in depression score. This study appears in the December issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American ...Patients' requests for antidepressants can influence physician evaluation of depression
...ian are more likely to be thoroughly evaluated for depression than those who make a brand-specific request or no... physician prescribing habits regarding both major depression and the psychological condition known as adjustment disorder, which involves depression and anxiety ...November/December 2006 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... Hispanic patients perceptions of the efficacy of depression treatment do not match current treatment guideline... care physician could be helpful in treating their depression and that supportive talk with their doctor is an effective treatment. Three quarters thought that m...First-time mothers at increased risk for postpartum mental disorders
...d risk for mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder in the 3 months following the... increased risk for mental disorders. Postpartum depression is a serious mental health problem for women and their families, with an estimated prevalence of abo...Postpartum depression is a major public health problem that requires more resources
... one in seven mothers will experience some form of depression that impairs their ability to function. Many of th... University of California, San Diego. Postpartum depression not only affects the mother. It touches the father, other children in the family and most importantl...Antidepressants associated with increased risk for suicide attempts, decreased risk for death
...chiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Major depression is one of the most important risk factors for suic...n the article. However, medications used to treat depression have also been linked to suicidal attempts and behavior, especially among children and adolescents t...Enhanced depression care may be cost-effective for employers
Offering additional depression screening and care may save employers about $3,000...on to its toll on patients' health and well-being, depression is estimated to cost tens of billions of dollars in the United States each year, according to backgr...Benefits to employers outweigh enhanced depression-care costs
...to offer programs that actively seek out and treat depression in the workforce, suggests an analysis funded by t...ng a minimal level of enhanced care for employees' depression would result in a cumulative savings to employers of $2,898 per 1,000 workers over 5 years. Even tho...Researchers suggest new direction for development of psychotropic drugs
... functionality, including cognitive impairment and depression in people with schizophrenia. Because of limitations in animal models of complex psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, investigators were often not discouraged by negative results in key tests, particularly if other data seemed encouraging. Ro...Measuring brain activity for emotional markers that may indicate risk for developing alcoholism
...sion. Specifically, individuals with a history of depression have demonstrated lower levels of electrical activ...ASPD) had effects on regional asymmetry. "Major depression and antisocial behavior are both problems that commonly co-occur with alcoholism," explained Hayden,...Panic attacks are linked to poor outcomes for diabetic patients, Group Health study finds
...er, to see whether patients who have panic without depression would also have poor diabetic outcomes. "Panic ...their patients with diabetes, looking for signs of depression or panic disorders, she added....