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lorrie78 submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.discover8.com)
Depression affects more than 17 million Americans every year. Depression affects significantly more women than men. In fact, women experience depression twice as often as men and they often experience it earlier, longer, and more severely. Higher rates of depression in women may be linked to biological and social differences.
True depression is more than just the occasional "blues" that most people encounter now and then. Depression affects the whole person -- mind, body, personal life, work life 
Early Brain Marker for Familial Form of Depression: Structural Changes in Brain's Cortex
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.sciencedaily.com)
Findings from one of the largest-ever imaging studies of depression indicate that a structural difference in the brain – a thinning of the right hemisphere – appears to be linked to a higher risk for depression, according to new research at Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Brain Protein May Be Target for Fast-Acting Antidepressants
piggy submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.sciencedaily.com)
It takes weeks or months for most antidepressants to kick in, time that can feel like an eternity to those who need the drugs. But new research suggests that a protein called p11, previously shown to play a role in susceptibility to depression, activates a serotonin receptor in the brain known for producing a rapid antidepressant response. If scientists could develop drugs to target this receptor, then patients might feel the effects of their treatments in as little as two days.
In addition, the findings, reported by Rockefeller University’s Paul Greengard, Jennifer L
Manic Depression News and Discussion Forum
nsujin submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.manicdepression.us.com)
Find the latest news about depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Discuss mood disorder topics with members of the health community.
Empathy Partly Based on Genes, Mouse Study Shows
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.sciencedaily.com)
The ability to empathize with others is partially determined by genes, according to new research on mice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).
Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor
piggy submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.eurekalert.org)
A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered.
The finding, reported in the Feb. 13 issue of Science, may ultimately have implications for treating drug abuse and/or depression. Many more experiments will be needed, the researchers say.
Scientists have been searching for years for naturally occurring compounds that trigger activity in the protein, the sigma-1 receptor
Older antidepressants work for Parkinson patients
piggy submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.reuters.com)
People with Parkinson's disease who also suffer from depression may find they're helped more by an older class of antidepressants than newer types of medication, a small clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health suggests.
The study found that paroxetine (brand name, Paxil), a so-called SSRI antidepressant, appears to be less effective than the "tricyclic" antidepressant nortriptyline for treating depression in patients with Parkinson's disease.
"Depression in Parkinson's disease is underrecognized, underappreciated and undertreated," lead investigator Dr
Lifestyle may link depression and heart disease
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.sciencenews.org)
The long-standing connection between depression and heart problems might be traceable to the fact that depressed people are less physically active than others, a new study of heart patients shows. A greater tendency in depressed people to smoke and to fail to take medications regularly may also play a role, researchers report in the Nov. 26 Journal of the American Medical Association
Antidepressant treatment may reduce male fertility
piggy submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.reuters.com)
Treatment with paroxetine (Paxil), which belongs to the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class of antidepressant drugs, increases DNA fragmentation in sperm, according to research presented today at the sixty-fourth annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in San Francisco.
Although the study did not directly evaluate male fertility, the fivefold increase in the number of men who developed abnormal sperm DNA while being treated with paroxetine is "troubling" and "suggests an adverse effect on fertility," co-investigator Dr
Depression and the Nobel Prize
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
Anyone who has struggled with depression—either in themselves or a loved one—will be moved by the story of Douglas C. Prasher.
Dr. Prasher, who now drives a courtesy van for a car dealer, abandoned a life of scientific research years ago. Trained as a biochemist, Dr. Prasher has struggled over the years with bouts of depression.
His story wouldn’t be notable except for a startling fact: his early research led to a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the inner workings of living cells. Dr
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.nature.com)
Since the time of ancient Egypt, societies have struggled to understand mental illness and to care for those affected by it. But, over the millennia, the idea that mental illness might have a biological cause arose only intermittently, and treatments ranged from the benign (exercise, humour and music) to the barbaric (exorcism, imprisonment and lobotomy). By the mid-twentieth century, however, several breakthroughs had been made
NIH Suspends Grant to Emory University
jerry submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has suspended a $9 million grant for a depression study led by psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff at Emory University in Atlanta. The punishment, imposed in August but only made public today, is apparently the most severe reaction by NIH so far to a Senate investigation of NIH-funded researchers who may have failed to report all of their income from drug companies.
Recipients of NIH grants are required to report income from industry consulting activities
Physicians practicing assisted suicide are asked to better screen patients for depression
jerry submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.reuters.com)
This article is particularly concerned with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which requires physicians who suspect that a patient requesting help in ending his or her live might be suffering from clinical depression to have said patient evaluated by a mental health professional. However, the proportion of such patients who actually are evaluated has dropped and continues to drop.
Last year, forty-six patients died by physician-assisted suicide in Oregon. None of them were evaluated to see if depression had affected their judgment.
Cymbalta May Cut Chronic Low Back Pain
kavin submitted, created time 2 years 6 days (www.webmd.com)
Cymbalta, a prescription drug used to treat depression, generalized anxiety disorder, diabetic nerve pain, and fibromyalgia, may ease chronic low back pain.
That's according to a study presented in Madrid at the twelfth congress of the European Federation of the Neurological Sciences.
The study included 236 adults with chronic low back pain who weren't depressed. They took Cymbalta or a placebo drug daily for thirteen weeks.
Average weekly pain scores, measured before taking Cymbalta or the placebo and again at the end of the study, showed greater improvement in the Cymbalta group
Taxanes May Increase Risk for Significant Psychological Symptoms
kavin submitted, created time 2 years 6 days (www.medscape.com)
Taxane-based chemotherapies are increasingly used for the adjuvant treatment of early and locally advanced breast cancer, but new research suggests that they confer a risk for significant psychologic symptoms. According to a study published in the August 1 issue of Cancer, patients who received taxane-based therapy had significantly worse emotional distress and slower psychologic recovery than those receiving a similar regimen without taxanes.
The researchers also observed high rates of probable clinical depression among patients who received taxane therapy
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