Let Me Tell You More About My Depressed, Miserable Existence
By Depressed Jane on April 27, 2006
Women age 60 years or younger are more likely than other patients to be depressed during hospitalization for heart attack, according to a study in the April issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Depression is common in patients with cardiovascular disease, including acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), according to background information in the article… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 27, 2006
Women age 60 years or younger are more likely than other patients to be depressed during hospitalization for heart attack, according to a study in the April issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Depression is common in patients with cardiovascular disease, including acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), according to background information in the article… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 26, 2006
While half of young women aged 20-29 felt they would “just get over” depression and relied heavily on support of friends and family, the vast majority of women aged 60-69 reported taking medication and not seeking support, according to a new national survey. Overall, findings show that most women are neither aware of the age-dependent circumstances that can put them at risk for depression, nor do they adopt a comprehensive treatment approach that can increase the chances of becoming well… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 22, 2006
Two leading national mental health charities, Depression Alliance and SANE, have come together during National Depression Week to welcome the inclusion of depression indicators for the first time in the national Quality and Outcomes Framework (“QOF”) of the GMS (General Medical Services) contract… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 20, 2006
Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, say there is good evidence of a link between bipolar disorder and mitochondrial dysfunction in brain nerve cells. You can read about this study in Molecular Psychiatry.Nobody is yet sure about the cause of bipolar disorder… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 9, 2006
Elderly patients with lesser versions of depression, a group many times larger than those with major depression, are more than five times as likely as healthy patients to descend into major depression within one year, according to a study published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study’s authors believe that perhaps millions of elderly patients who do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of major depression are indeed depressed, suffering and not being treated for it… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 7, 2006
Depressed monkeys not only look and act like depressed people, but their central nervous systems have the same characteristics, a finding that could lead to more effective testing of depression treatments.”Brain scans of depressed female monkeys revealed the same underlying neurobiological changes that are found in the brains of depressed people,” said Carol A… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 7, 2006
Depressed monkeys not only look and act like depressed people, but their central nervous systems have the same characteristics, a finding that could lead to more effective testing of depression treatments.”Brain scans of depressed female monkeys revealed the same underlying neurobiological changes that are found in the brains of depressed people,” said Carol A… click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 6, 2006
Women with no history of depression may be at an increased risk of new onset depressive symptoms and disorders as they transition to menopause, according to two studies in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.As background information in the articles, the authors write that although the transition to menopause has long been considered a time of increased risk for developing depressive symptoms, there is little scientific evidence … click link for more info.
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By Depressed Jane on April 2, 2006
Reactions of two brain regions to reading negative words indicate which depressed patients will be helped by cognitive behavior therapy. This finding appears in an article in the April 2006 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP), the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association… click link for more info.
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