Care Management Reduces Depression And Suicidal Thoughts In Older Primary Care Patients
By Depressed Jane | June 24, 2009
Depression in older adults too often goes unrecognized and untreated, resulting in untold misery, worsening of medical illness, and early death. A new study has identified one important remedy: Adding a trained depression care manager to primary care practices can increase the number of patients receiving treatment, lead to a higher remission rate of depression, and reduce suicidal thoughts.
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Gene Theory For Depression Is Now Discredited
By Depressed Jane | June 24, 2009
A study that attempted to replicate the “seminal” study that laid the foundation for psychiatry’s “serotonin theory” of depression, claiming a genetic- serotonin impairment underlying depression, has been debunked by the data from 14 similar studies claiming a genetic underpinning to depression.
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What Is The Risk Of Obesity While Taking Antidepressant Drugs?
By Depressed Jane | June 24, 2009
Cross-sectional studies have reported an association between major depressive episode (MDE) and obesity. The objective of this longitudinal analysis was to determine whether MDE increase the risk of becoming obese over a 10-year period. Data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS) were used, a longitudinal study of a representative cohort of household residents in Canada.
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Psychotherapy Of Depression Changes Biological Parameters?
By Depressed Jane | June 24, 2009
A group of German investigators demonstrated that the early increase in phosphorylated CREB (pCREB) is related to treatment response and does not depend on pharmacological interventions or brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plasma levels. For the first time, cellular biological markers could be associated with response to psychotherapy.
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What Is The Risk Of Obesity While Taking Antidepressant Drugs?
By Depressed Jane | June 24, 2009
Cross-sectional studies have reported an association between major depressive episode (MDE) and obesity. The objective of this longitudinal analysis was to determine whether MDE increase the risk of becoming obese over a 10-year period. Data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS) were used, a longitudinal study of a representative cohort of household residents in Canada.
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Clinical Data, Inc. Announces Approval Of Generic Name Vilazodone, First In A New Class Of Experimental Treatments For Depression
By Depressed Jane | June 22, 2009
Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDA) announced today that the United States Adopted Name Council (USAN) has approved the generic name vilazodone hydrochloride.
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What Is Mental Health? What Is Mental Disorder?
By Depressed Jane | June 18, 2009
Mental health refers to our cognitive, and/or emotional wellbeing - it is all about how we think, feel and behave. Mental health, if somebody has it, can also mean an absence of a mental disorder. Approximately 25% of people in the UK have a mental health problem during their lives. The USA is said to have the highest incidence of people diagnosed with mental health problems in the developed world.
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Stanford Medical Center Announces $100,000 Planning Grant For Community Response To Teen Depression And Suicide
By Depressed Jane | June 18, 2009
Enhancing the response to teen depression and suicide is the focus of a new planning grant announced on June 12 by the Stanford Medical Center. The $100,000 grant, funded by Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Hospital & Clinics, will support collaboration among Palo Alto-area providers of health care resources for teens.
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How Much Chronic Depression With Medical Disorders Affect Work Performance?
By Depressed Jane | June 18, 2009
A group of Australian researchers investigated in medical disorders the effects of comorbid dysthymic disorder as compared to major depressive disorder (MDD) on health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and disability days in the general population. In a population-based study 4,181 individuals were assessed for the presence of dysthymic disorder and depression, utilizing the Composite International Diagnostic Interview.
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Analysis Does Not Support Association Between Genetic Marker, Stress And Risk Of Depression
By Depressed Jane | June 18, 2009
Contrary to a previous report, an analysis of 14 previous studies does not find an association between a serotonin transporter gene variation, stressful life events, and an increased risk of major depression, according to an article in the June 17 issue of JAMA. The authors did find that the number of stressful life events is associated with depression.
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