Depressed Jane

Research published by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme has added to the evidence base on treatment for adolescents who are clinically depressed. The researchers found that for adolescents with moderate to severe major depression, the addition of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to drug therapy and active clinical care did not improve patients’ wellbeing enough for the CBT treatment to be cost-effective.

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UroToday.com – Treatment emergent sexual dysfunction is a frequent adverse effect occurring with medication use and is a major influence for premature treatment discontinuation, which leads to treatment failure and costly disease management outcomes.

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Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. In the study, available online and in the Sept. 15 issue of Kidney International, researchers monitored 98 dialysis patients for up to 14 months.

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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: RNN), a leader in innovative therapeutics for life-threatening and life-debilitating diseases, announced that the Company has received FDA approval to begin Phase II trials for Serdaxin™, for the treatment of major depressive disorders (MDD). This trial represents the third Phase II study currently in progress at Rexahn Pharmaceuticals.

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Suffering a traumatic injury can have serious and long-lasting implications for a patient’s mental health, according to the largest-ever U.S. study evaluating the impact of traumatic injury. Researchers from the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, the University of Washington, and the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that post-traumatic stress disorder and depression were very common among patients assessed one year after suffering a serious injury.

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According to research published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, mother’s are more that twice as likely to use smacking to discipline her child if they face a mix of depression and violent arguments with a partner compared to women who only deal with one of the two factors.

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Depression is common among teenage and young adult orphans in Rwanda who head households and provide care for younger children, according to a survey conducted by researchers at Tulane University that was published last month in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the New York Times reports.

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A pilot program called the College Screening Project, a suicide prevention outreach program, was successful in identifying and treating college students with severe depression and feelings of desperation that may have led to suicide. The study, supported by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), was conducted with Emory University students over six college semesters from 2002-2005.

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Each year suicide claims the lives of over 500 Alabamians. In an effort to bring awareness to this alarming problem, the Alabama Suicide Prevention Task Force is unveiling a new suicide prevention strategic plan during National Suicide Prevention Week, Sept. 7-13. “Right now the suicide rate is higher than the homicide rate, and it is the third leading cause of death for youths between the ages of 15 and 24.

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Why do many Canadians get the winter blues? In the first study of its kind in the living human brain, Dr. Jeffrey Meyer and colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have discovered greater levels of serotonin transporter in the brain in winter than in summer. These findings have important implications for understanding seasonal mood change in healthy people, vulnerability to seasonal affective disorders and the relationship of light exposure to mood.

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