News tagged with depressed women
A mother's criticism causes distinctive neural activity among formerly depressed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Formerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticized by their mothers that are distinctly different from the patterns shown by never depressed controls, according ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Researchers find key to gender differences in processing stress
This is a stressful season in a stressful time, and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that women are more prone to emotional stress and and depression than their cool male counterparts. Tracey Shors, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 03, 2010 |
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Depression linked with accumulation of visceral fat
Numerous studies have shown that depression is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, but exactly how has never been clear.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Omega-3s ease depressive symptoms related to menopause
Omega-3s ease psychological distress and depressive symptoms often suffered by menopausal and perimenopausal women, according to researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine. Their study, published in the ...
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Discrimination takes its toll on Black women
Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women's mental health. It undermines their view of themselves as masters of their own life circumstances and makes them less psychologically resilient and more prone ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Walking back to happiness
(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique exercise programme which has been proven to help women living with depression has been unveiled by researchers from The University of Nottingham.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Depression affects how women with PMDD respond to stress, pain
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.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 30, 2010 |
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New mums beat the blues and increase wellbeing with physio exercise, study reveals
In a world first study of its kind, 161 postnatal women with no previous depressive symptoms were divided in two separate groups to test the effect of a physiotherapist-led exercise and education program on wellbeing.
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Crying baby draws blunted response in depressed mom's brain
Mothers who are depressed respond differently to their crying babies than do non-depressed moms. In fact, their reaction, according to brain scans at the University of Oregon, is much more muted than the robust ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Women who miscarry continue to have mental health problems
The depression and anxiety experienced by many women after a miscarriage can continue for years, even after the birth of a healthy child, according to a study led by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers and ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Emotions should be taken seriously
Health workers trained to take emotions more seriously may prevent depression among patients, a recent study at the University of Stavanger finds.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Psychiatric disorders are common in adults who have had anorexia
The study was initiated in 1985. A total of 51 teenagers with anorexia nervosa were studied, together with an equally large control group of healthy persons. The groups have been investigated and compared several times as ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Treatments for postnatal depression assessed
Giving antidepressants to women with postnatal depression early in the course of the illness is likely to result in the greatest improvement in symptoms, according to new research from the University of Bristol, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Treating Depression in Pregnancy
A new report from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is published by Elsevier in the September-October 2009 issue of General Hospital Psychiatry, explores ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Sad mothers have small babies
Clinical depression and anxiety during pregnancy results in smaller babies that are more likely to die in infancy, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The study, which focuse ...
Aug 25, 2010 |
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