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A heart-to-heart chat with a peer has proven an effective way to prevent postnatal depression in high risk women, cutting the risk of depression by 50%, according to a University of Toronto nursing study published in BMJ Online.
Dr. Cindy-Lee Dennis, an associate professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and (more…)

CeNeRx BioPharma,
Inc., a clinical stage company developing and commercializing innovative
treatments for diseases of the central nervous system, announced that
it has initiated a Phase II clinical trial for its lead product candidate
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For patients with mild- to moderate- Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive
decline was not slowed by the administration of high-dose vitamin B
supplementation in an article released on October 14, 2008 in JAMA.
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a degenerative neurological disease that is
a common form of dementia. There has been evidence that an amino acid
naturally produced in the body, homocysteine, is present in higher
levels in cases of Alzheimer’s patients, and homocysteine’s
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The herbal medicine St. John’s wort appears to work just as well as some prescribed antidepressants for treating patients with major depression, a new review finds. However, patients in German-speaking countries might experience the best benefits.
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Women who smoke are at greater risk of developing major depressive disorder, according to new research published in the October issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Researchers from the University of Melbourne studied a group of women in Australia, who had been followed for a decade as part of the Geelong Osteoporosis Study.
The results of a psychiatric (more…)

The American Red Cross today announced a new course, Coping With Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families, is now available. The course, offered free of charge, is open to military family members of active duty, Reserve and National Guard forces, as well as veterans and their families. Presently, the course is offered in sixteen states (Ala., Ark., (more…)

Images of the brain’s fastest signals reveal an electromagnetic marker that predicts a patient’s response to a fast-acting antidepressant, researchers have discovered.
"Such biomarkers that identify who will benefit from a new class of antidepressants could someday minimize trial-and-error prescribing and speed delivery of care for what can be a life-threatening (more…)

The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario (MDAO) today launches "It’s All In Your Head!" an initiative to promote awareness of the work of the MDAO and dispel myths about mental illness. Volunteers will be in the Yonge-Eglinton subway station and the Yonge-Eglinton Centre to hand out "heady" information to commuters during the evening rush hour.
Mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder will affect one in five individuals (more…)

Students’ successes in the first grade can affect more than their future report cards. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found links among students’ weak academic performance in the first grade, self-perceptions in the sixth grade, and depression symptoms in the seventh grade.
"We found that students in the first grade who struggled academically with core subjects, including reading and math, later displayed negative self-perceptions (more…)

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Are you sick because you are depressed or are you depressed because you are sick? The answer is ‘yes’, for not only does mood impact the immune system, but the inner workings of the brain can be profoundly impacted by an active immune system. You are invited to become a charter member of the one of the most relevant annual symposiums ever offered to health care practitioners on the subject of mind and body. Frontiers in Psychoneuroimmunology (more…)

Why do many Canadians get the winter blues? Generic lexapro pills no prescription 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 (more…)

U.S. residents between ages 10 and 19 do not receive adequate medical care, according to a report recently released by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, the AP/Arizona Daily Star reports. The report found that the system of care for adolescents lacks coordination and proper design, as few physicians specialize in care for teens or provide comprehensive care that they (more…)

Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, knew there had to be a better way. He and Group Health colleagues set out 15 years ago to explore how best to engage patients with chronic diseases in effective care. With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation support, they developed the Chronic Care Model. More than 1,500 U.S. and international medical practices have adopted the Model. Now the largest roundup of evidence on how the Model performs (more…)

Learning a feeling of safety activates cellular and molecular processes that
act against depression. This has been analysed using a new animal model that
pharmacological antidepressants but that this effect is controlled by other
molecular processes. The project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF
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Romantic relationships establish special bonds between partners. Oftentimes, passionate rapport leads to permanent partnerships, and ultimately, the start of families.
Sometimes, however, one or both partners place too much emotional weight on their relationship. As a result, men or women may tend to evaluate their self-worth solely based on the outcomes of their romantic interactions. This is what (more…)

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is most effective in patients who have had four or more prior episodes of depression, according to new research from The Netherlands.
The study, published in the December issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, suggests GPs could use the number of prior episodes to determine which patients are likely to benefit most from therapy and prescribe treatment accordingly. (more…)

Valdoxan® today received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for its use in the treatment of adult patients with Major Depressive Episodes (MDE).1
Valdoxan is an innovative approach to the treatment of MDE and has demonstrated convincing efficacy in depressed patients with moderate-severe depression2, offering new hope (more…)

Depression can cause diabetes patients to suffer from higher glucose levels over time compared to those who are not depressed, finds a study of older veterans with the disease.
"Our study shows that depression is a major and important comorbidity in people with type 2 diabetes," said study co-author Leonard Egede, M.D., from the Center for Health Disparities Research at the Medical University (more…)

Mental illness is one of the last surviving stigmas in today’s liberal society. Class, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation, are all off-limits now as reasons for discrimination, social exclusion, jokes or disparaging remarks of any kind. Where these are concerned, we’ve come a long way in terms of tolerance, fairness and sensitivity to the feelings of others; as a rule, words are chosen carefully so as not to offend and legislation ensures fair (more…)

Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US (COR)) reported that top-line data from its second Phase IIa study in opioid-induced respiratory depression (RD) demonstrated that a single oral dose of 1500mg of the AMPAKINE® compound CX717 achieved statistical significance (p = 0.005) over placebo on the primary endpoint measure of spontaneous basal respiration without affecting opioid-induced analgesia. This placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized (more…)

America’s financial crises is fueling chronic stress and limiting some people’s ability to think clearly, control emotions and regulate bodily functions in a healthy manner. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Josh Klapow, Ph.D., says now is the time to take control of emotions (more…)

The news about antidepressant medications over the past several years has been mixed. The bad news from large multicenter studies such as STAR*D is that current antidepressant medications are effective, but not as effective as one might hope. Thus, there is a significant need for new treatment mechanisms for depression. On that front, there has been mixed news as well. One of the most exciting new drugs (more…)

The American College of Physicians is publishing a new guideline for the treatment of depression in Annals of Internal Medicine. ACP found no substantial differences in efficacy or quality of life among "second-generation" antidepressants used to treat depressive (more…)

There are few studies comparing the efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) and pharmacotherapy in major depressive disorder. A group of finnish investigators conducted a comparative study on the efficacy of STPP versus fluoxetine treatment in patients with major depressive disorder in a primary care setting.
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Prozac is regularly prescribed to ease the emotional pain of patients who are being treated for cancer. Buy lasix without prescription But can this common anti-depressant help to fight cancer itself?
Dr. Dan Peer of the Department of Cell Research and Immunology at Tel Aviv University is proving that it can. A study he and his colleagues recently (more…)