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(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain cases of major depression are associated with premature aging of immune cells, which may make people more susceptible to other serious illness, according to findings from a new UCSF-led study. http://phys.org/news221236763.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:00:01 EST news221236763 Adolescents who spend more time listening to music are far more likely to have major depressive disorder, while young people who spend more time reading books are far less likely to have such a diagnosis, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published in the April edition of the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. http://phys.org/news221153970.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:20:02 EST news221153970 Children of mothers with major depressive disorder showed improvement in their own psychiatric symptoms in the year after their mothers’ depression responded to treatment, according to a study appearing in the online edition of The American Journal of Psychiatry. http://phys.org/news219488470.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:01:46 EST news219488470 Emory University experts predict that rates of depressive disorders among men will increase as the 21st century progresses. http://phys.org/news218175159.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:50:01 EST news218175159 For many, the changing of the seasons means cozy dark evenings of winter and enjoying holiday light displays. But perhaps for you, the shortening of the days signals a time when you feel down, sad or withdrawn. You may notice that you sleep more and eat more, and even gain weight. You may feel a lack of energy, or have problems with your memory. You may cry at unexpected times. You may feel hopeless and even lose the will to live or think of suicide. If these symptoms interfere with everyday life, you may have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). http://phys.org/news217256891.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:08:42 EST news217256891 The link between deficits of omega-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids (AGPO-3) and the onset of depressive disorders is not new in the medical field. However, what has not been known until now is the brain mechanism by which diet can condition mental health to a certain extent. Research undertaken by scientists in Bordeaux (France) and at the Faculty of Medicine and Odontology of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) and published in Nature Neuroscience, provides new clues to understanding this phenomenon. http://phys.org/news216036513.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:30:02 EST news216036513 Deficits in emotional memory processing associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) are shown to be reversible by distinct antidepressants, shows researchers at Karolinska Institutet in an animal study. http://phys.org/news214596054.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:01:18 EST news214596054 A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy--using meditation—provides equivalent protection against depressive relapse as traditional antidepressant medication. http://phys.org/news210875091.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:29:39 EST news210875091 A large genetic study of people with major depression has found that a duplicated region of DNA on chromosome 5 predisposes people to the disorder. The gene involved plays an important role in the development of nerve cells, adding to evidence that disruptions in neurotransmission networks form a biological basis for depression. http://phys.org/news210446925.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:31:23 EST news210446925 (PhysOrg.com) -- A study of adolescents who had a major depressive disorder found that nearly all recovered from their episode after treatment. But within five years, nearly half of them had relapsed, and females were at much higher risk of another major episode, researchers at Duke University Medical Center found. http://phys.org/news207850982.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:24:19 EST news207850982 (PhysOrg.com) -- Current treatments for depression don't help working-class and poor patients as much as they help middle-class patients improve their ability to function at work, according to a recent University of Illinois at Chicago study. http://phys.org/news207498137.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:22:35 EST news207498137 (PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have found a gene that seems to be a key contributor to the onset of depression and is a promising target for a new class of antidepressants, they report Oct. 17 in the journal Nature Medicine. http://phys.org/news206540551.html Medicine & Health Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:22:58 EST news206540551 The drug reboxetine is, overall, an ineffective and potentially harmful antidepressant, according to a comprehensive study of the evidence published in the British Medical Journal today. http://phys.org/news206161810.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:20:01 EST news206161810 New research from Rhode Island Hospital found that reduced levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a protein in the brain that encourages growth of neurons, may be a trait marker for individuals with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) (seizures that are psychological in origin). The findings are published in the October 4, 2010, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://phys.org/news205430390.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:00:08 EST news205430390 Interviews with members of more than 5,000 representative U.S. households as part of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication found that nearly 40 percent of those with major depressive disorder may actually have subthreshold hypomania, defined as a discrete period of increased energy, activity, and euphoria or irritability that is not related to impairment in daily activities. http://phys.org/news201194111.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:15:29 EST news201194111 Blood tests have been extremely important tools aiding doctors in making medical diagnoses and in guiding the treatment of many diseases. However, psychiatry is one area of medicine where there are few diagnostic blood tests. http://phys.org/news199010138.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:50:01 EST news199010138 Persons with alcohol problems are finding comfort in speaking about their situation to clergy, a new study shows. http://phys.org/news198325996.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:14 EST news198325996 Depression is one of the most common forms of psychiatric disorder. It can occur at any time of life and it may affect children and adolescents as well as the elderly. However, depression can usually be suitably managed with the help of cognitive behavioral therapy. http://phys.org/news195482714.html Medicine & Health Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:00:03 EST news195482714 Excessive sleepiness is more common in the U.S. than in Europe, which raises concerns for public health and safety, according to a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. http://phys.org/news195195940.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:10:01 EST news195195940 (AP) -- Federal regulators have accepted an application for a depression drug marketed by Clinical Data Inc., the company said Monday. http://phys.org/news193938577.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 May 2010 17:20:03 EST news193938577 During the year following hospitalization for a traumatic brain injury, a majority of patients experienced major depression, according to a study in the May 19 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on mental health. http://phys.org/news193412157.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 May 2010 14:50:01 EST news193412157 More than one-third of teenagers with treatment-resistant depression - many of whom had been depressed for more than two years - became symptom-free six months after switching their medication or combining a medicine switch with cognitive behavioral therapy during a multicenter study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers. http://phys.org/news193318651.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 May 2010 13:00:03 EST news193318651 Scientists have found an important clue in the quest to understand why people who suffer from depression in later life are harder to treat and keep well in the long term. http://phys.org/news192188831.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 May 2010 11:00:09 EST news192188831 Rates of mood and anxiety disorders appear to decline with age but the conditions remain common in older adults, especially women, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://phys.org/news192123905.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 May 2010 17:30:02 EST news192123905 (PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers have developed a non-invasive biomarker that may serve as a type of early warning system for doctors and patients. http://phys.org/news189972383.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:06:48 EST news189972383 As science slowly, but continually, unravels the causes of disorders, it increasingly teases apart biological threads that, when spooled together, begin to take on the warp and weft of separate disorders. http://phys.org/news189161222.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:47:29 EST news189161222 Obesity appears to be associated with an increased risk of depression, and depression also appears associated with an increased risk of developing obesity, according to a meta-analysis of previously published studies in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://phys.org/news186683606.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:33:49 EST news186683606 Conventional antidepressant treatments generally require three to four weeks to become effective, thus the discovery of treatments with a more rapid onset is a major goal of biological psychiatry. The first drug found to produce rapid improvement in mood was the NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist, ketamine. http://phys.org/news186664231.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:30:01 EST news186664231 The next advance in treating major depression may relate to a group of brain chemicals that are involved in virtually all our brain activity, according to a study published today in Biological Psychiatry. The study is co-authored by Drs. Andrea J. Levinson and Zafiris J. Daskalakis of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). http://phys.org/news186661144.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:10:01 EST news186661144 A study in the March edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry senior-authored by Jerome C. Wakefield, a professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University with Mark Schmitz of Temple University and Judith Baer of Rutgers University, empirically challenges the effectiveness of psychiatrists' official diagnostic manual in preventing mistaken, false-positive diagnoses of depression. http://phys.org/news186236927.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:40:02 EST news186236927