The festive season is supposed to be a joyous occasion but for some it can be a living hell. Helen Crane looks at how to deal with depression at new year……click here to continue reading
The festive season is supposed to be a joyous occasion but for some it can be a living hell. Helen Crane looks at how to deal with depression at new year……click here to continue reading
Perhaps it’s not surprising, but for members of the U.S. armed forces, combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan increases the risk of depression, according to a new study…….click here to continue reading
The wife of NI First Minister Peter Robinson is to quit politics after suffering bouts of depression…….click here to continue reading
Linking the Great Depression to the Tucson budget crisis. That’s how Tucson’s City Manager Mike Letcher began a press conference outlining his proposals for closing his $32 million budget hole…….click here to continue reading
MINNEAPOLIS - (AP) - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton says he has struggled with mild depression for years and relapsed in his recovery from alcoholism while serving in the U.S. Senate…….click here to continue reading
The current issue of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter provides an option to treat depression when medication and therapy have failed — magnetic stimulation therapy. The therapy, called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), involves using brief powerful electromagnetic pulses to alter brain activity. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the therapy for patients ……click here to continue reading
A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that depressed patients are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion. The study challenges previous notions that individuals with depression show less brain activity in areas associated with positive emotion. Instead, the new data suggest similar initial levels of activity, but an inability to sustain them ………click here to continue reading
Routine screening for postnatal depression in primary care - as recommended in recent guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) - do not appear to represent value for money for the NHS, concludes a study published on bmj.com. The results suggest that both the NICE guidance and widespread current practice should be reviewed. More than one in 10 women suffer ………click here to continue reading
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 24 (UPI) — Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are hallmarks of depression and may explain why the Grinch hated Christmas, a U.S. psychologist suggests…….click here to continue reading