It shouldn’t be surprising that mental health officials didn’t zero in on Jared Loughner’s reported problems long before he opened fire Saturday in Tucson. New research shows that even top universities fail to see it when students about the age of Loughner are struggling with depression, sometimes a precursor to violence, suicide and paranoia…….click here to continue reading
This week marks the 20th anniversary since Congress first established Mental Health Awareness Week as the first week in October and because depression is one of the most common yet neglected mental health issues, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced the findings of a study on depression…….click here to continue reading
( NIH/National Institute of Mental Health ) Scientists have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain resilience to stress, vulnerability to depression and how antidepressants work. The new findings, in the reward circuit of mouse and human brains, have spurred a high tech dragnet for compounds that boost the action of a key gene regulator there, called deltaFosB. Triggering deltaFosB, which ………click here to continue reading
( Southern Methodist University ) Exercise is a magic drug for many people with depression and anxiety disorders, and it should be more widely prescribed by mental health care providers, says Jasper Smits, director of the Anxiety Research and Treatment Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. An analysis of dozens of population-based studies, clinical studies and meta-analytic reviews ………click here to continue reading
DEPRESSION should be something that is talked about as easily as the flu, according to Minister for Mental Health, John Moloney, who yesterday revealed he too suffered from a bout of the illness…….click here to continue reading
A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era…….click here to continue reading
Despite the Christmas song that claims that this is the “hap-, happiest season of all,” for some, it’s anything but. Area mental health counselors said the stresses of the holidays might trigger depression in some and grief in others. Eileen Brito, LCSW,……click here to continue reading
Results of a large study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health showed that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) might be equally effective in both patients with unipolar depression and those with bipolar depression…….click here to continue reading
BOSTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) — Chronic depression requires more intensive treatment than a single episode of depression, a U.S. mental health newsletter says…….click here to continue reading
The government is to announce a major shift in mental health policy in England with a new emphasis on tackling depression…….click here to continue reading