Let Me Tell You More About My Depressed, Miserable Existence
By Depressed Jane on July 29, 2007
A specific genetic variation may be tied to an increased risk for severe premenstrual depression, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Mental Health have found. Known medically as premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, this psychiatric condition affects roughly 8 percent of women in their childbearing years. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 29, 2007
A new study has revealed more about how the medication ketamine, when used experimentally for depression, relieves symptoms of the disorder in hours instead of the weeks or months it takes for current antidepressants to work. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 27, 2007
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine a three-year, $500,000 grant to develop a novel intervention strategy for simultaneously treating congestive heart failure and major depression. The study is designed to obtain the necessary feasibility and clinical data required to plan a large-scale trial, which will compare the impact of a “blended” depression/heart failure care management programs vs. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 25, 2007
There’s depression, and then there’s double depression. Sound bad? It is, according to Thomas Joiner, Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor and the Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology, who has identified hopelessness as a distinguishing feature of double depression in a new paper published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The finding could help therapists diagnose and treat the mood disorder. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 25, 2007
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.Those are the findings of a new study by researchers at the Universities of Montreal and Oslo; the study is published in the July/August 2007 issue of the journal Child Development. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 24, 2007
USA Today on Thursday examined the practice known as placentophagy, in which the placenta of a pregnant woman is saved, dried and emulsified, then placed in gelatin capsules and taken by the mother in the months after childbirth. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 23, 2007
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing and granted a Priority Review for the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) of ABILIFY® (aripiprazole) for the treatment of adults with major depressive disorder as adjunctive to antidepressant therapy (ADT). [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 22, 2007
The commonly held belief that mothers suffering from post natal depression will not be able to breastfeed has been challenged by research from the University of Leicester, which also suggests that the manner in which current breastfeeding promotion strategies are communicated may contribute to feelings of guilt and fears of inadequacy by mothers suffering from depression. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 21, 2007
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) recommended contraindicating Acomplia (rimonabant) from sanofi-aventis, in patients with ongoing major depression or who are being treated with antidepressants, because of the risk of psychiatric side effects. Doctors in the EU have already been warned about this since June 2006 but the Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has now recommended upgrading this warning. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
By Depressed Jane on July 20, 2007
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), UK, advocates that antidepressants should only be given to adolescent patients with depression if accompanied with psychological therapy. A new study published in www.bmj. [click link for full article]
Popularity: unranked [?]
