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Family stress and child's temper extremes contribute to anxiety and depression in children and young people
Small children who grow up in a family where the mother has psychological distress, the family is exposed to stress or is lacking social support, are at higher risk of developing anxious and depressive symptoms in early adolescence.   view more (2008-06-23)

A COMPARISON OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER.
A major multicenter French study compared two psychotherapy approaches in obsessive compulsive disorder. The study was designed to compare cognitive therapy (CT) with intensive behavior therapy (BT) in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and to study their change process. Sixty-five outpatients... view more (2001-11-07)

Depression model leaves mice with molecular scar
In addition to triggering a depression-like social withdrawal syndrome, repeated defeat by dominant animals leaves a mouse with an enduring "molecular scar" in its brain that could help to explain why depression is so difficult to cure.   view more (2006-03-01)

Antidepressants may lower risk of recurrent heart attack in depressed heart attack patients
In depressed patients who have experienced a heart attack, use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), was associated with a reduced risk of death and recurrent heart attack, according to an article in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of... view more (2005-07-05)

Violence at work significantly boosts clinical depression risk
Employees subjected to real or threatened violence at work run a major risk of becoming clinically depressed, indicates research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.   view more (2006-08-10)

Finding may eventually help tailor treatment for depression
When a treatment works for one person's depression, it does not always work for another person's. Findings from the University of Iowa may one day help doctors have a better idea of who will benefit from specific antidepressants, increasing the likelihood of successful treatment.   view more (2007-11-08)

Study suggests anesthetic agent may have rapid antidepressant effects
A single intravenous infusion of a drug known as ketamine, which is a general anesthetic agent, may relieve symptoms of depression within two hours and remain effective for up to one week.   view more (2006-08-08)

Youth's social problems contribute to anxiety and depression
Socially successful children tend to have fewer symptoms of anxiety or depression, while children with problems such as anxiety and depression tend to have difficulties forming relationships and being accepted by friends.   view more (2008-03-25)

Can Long-term Treatment With Antidepressant Drugs Worsen The Course Of Depression?
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry releases a review by Giovanni A. Fava (University of Bologna) which is likely to stir a lot controversy and be disliked by the Big Pharma. The possibility that antidepressant drugs, while effectively treating depression, may worsen its course has received... view more (2003-03-17)

Depression and cardiovascular disease
Depression has long had a popular link to cardiovascular disease and death. However, only during the last 15 years scientific evidence supporting this common wisdom has been available (Glassman et al., 2007a). Since the early 1990s studies have reported prevalences of major depression between 17%... view more (2007-10-16)

Chronic exposure to stress hormone causes anxious behavior in mice: can lead to mood disorders
Neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School and its affiliate Mclean Hospital have shown that long-term exposure to stress hormone in mice directly results in the anxiety that often comes with depression.   view more (2006-04-18)

Study links manic depression with brain tissue loss
People with bipolar disorder - or manic depression - suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found.   view more (2007-07-20)

Omega-3 fatty acids affect risk of depression, inflammation
A new study suggests that people whose diets contain dramatically more of one kind of polyunsaturated fatty acid than another may be at greater risk for both clinical depression and certain inflammatory diseases.   view more (2007-03-30)

Hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome works for "at least five years"
Hypnotherapy seems to be an effective long term treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), lasting for "at least five years," conclude researchers in this month's edition of Gut. IBS is a very common disorder and makes up half a gastroenterologist's workload. Conventional treatment of... view more (2003-10-20)

Team treatment for depression cuts medical costs
A team approach to treating depression in older adults, already shown to improve health, can also cut total health-care costs, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. The study appears in the February issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.   view more (2008-02-07)

Adolescents exposed to violence suffer post traumatic stress and depression
Adolescents who either witness or are victims of violence are prone to post traumatic stress disorder and depression, finds research in Injury Prevention. The study was carried out in South Africa, where 60 deaths in every 100,000 are murders - 10 times the rate in the USA. Four private high... view more (2001-11-27)

Pioneering Project Underway to Combat Depression
An innovative scheme is underway in the West of Scotland to combat depression. The new project, lead by a University of Glasgow researcher, adds structure to NHS care by integrating GP, patient and secondary care in the treatment of depression, and employs a novel electronic referral system that... view more (2005-01-13)

Taste test may identify best drugs for depression
New research has shown that it might be possible to use taste as an indicator as to whether someone is depressed, and as a way of determining which is the most suitable drug to treat their depression.   view more (2006-12-06)

Early behavior problems appear to lead to peer rejection and friendlessness
Behavior problems in the early grades appear to lead to peer rejection and a lack of friends in elementary school. This, in turn, can lead to early adolescent depression and loneliness.   view more (2007-07-20)

Smoking marijuana impairs cognitive function in MS patients
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who smoke marijuana are more likely to have emotional and memory problems.   view more (2008-02-14)

Can Antidepressant Drugs Prevent Recurrence Of Depression? The News Is Depressiong.
Prolonging antidepressant drug treatment to prevent recurrence of depression does not appear to be an optimal solution for many patients concludes a review of Giovanni A Fava, Chiara Ruini (University of Bologna) and Nicoletta Sonino (University of Padova). The chronic and recurrent nature of major... view more (2004-02-16)

Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
Some of the costs of prescribing antidepressant drugs over the last decade could have been used to deliver psychological treatments of proven effectiveness, finds a study published online by the BMJ today.   view more (2005-03-16)

Brain imaging reveals breakdown of normal emotional processing
Brain imaging has revealed a breakdown in normal patterns of emotional processing that impairs the ability of people with clinical depression to suppress negative emotional states.   view more (2007-08-17)

Depression may play a bigger role in readjustment than previously thought in troubled vets
Depression may be an unrecognized readjustment problem for recently returning veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a study released today at the American Psychological Association 115th Annual Convention.   view more (2007-08-20)

New study has surprise findings on childhood depression
A child's social environment may have only a modest effect on whether very young children become depressed, according to new Australian research.    view more (2005-06-01)
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