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People with therapy-resistant depression have reason for hope due to new depression treatment researched at University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne.
Antidepressant research found evidence of an overall small but increased risk of treatment-emergent suicidal ideation/suicide attempt. However, the pooled random-effects risk differences of suicidal ideation/suicide attempt for each indication were all less than 1 percent.
Training school social workers to lead "talk therapy" sessions during the school day can help teens and pre-teens recognize and begin to overcome mild depression, anxiety and anger problems.
Partners of cancer survivors are susceptible to the same stresses as cancer survivors themselves over the long term, and may suffer more quality of life-related effects than survivors, such as depression.
The number of children and teenagers prescribed antidepressant medications appears to have decreased following public warnings about suicidal behavior potentially associated with the drugs.
The lack of serotonin in the brain is thought to cause depression, and bacteria found in the soil activated a group of neurons that produce the brain chemical serotonin.
Nurse care managers nearly double the likelihood of significant improvement among depressed patients.
Group Health researchers combine phone-based therapy with drug treatment for depression.
Family caregivers of people with ALS are likely to become depressed and feel burdened, but that's not the case for the people they are caring for
In a project involving more than 300 elderly people who had been discharged from hospital, 17 percent were found to have previously undiagnosed depression and of that figure, 7 percent died within two years of leaving hospital.
Antidepressant treatment appears to help stroke survivors with the kind of complex mental abilities often referred to as "thinking outside the box".
Research has demonstrated a strong connection between depression and heart disease.
Mothers who experience bouts of depression during their battles with breast cancer may find that the effects reach beyond their own psyches to those of their children.
Psychological depression appears to contribute to worse medical outcomes for patients with heart failure.
The study found that both appearance and physical disability are predictive of depression, but not anxiety, in patients with RA.
Revealing the full extent of psychological problems among people who have spent years recovering from serious burns.
Child abuse and neglect associated with increased risk of major depression among young adults
A depressed student is 1,66 times more likely to dropout than a non depressive student in the same socioeconomic bracket.
Nation's Largest Patient Group Focused on Depression Responds to New FDA Recommendations on Antidepressants.
Patients who initiate a general discussion about the need for antidepressant medication with their primary care physician are more likely to be thoroughly evaluated for depression than those who make a brand specific request or no request.
Offering additional depression screening and care may save employers about $3,000 per 1,000 workers over five years.
Antidepressants are associated with increased risk for suicide attempts and decreased risk for completed suicide and death.
New mothers are at an increased risk for mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder in the 3 months following the birth of their first child.
Depressed older adults being treated in primary care settings do better with psychosocial therapies than with antidepressant medicines.
Study to shed light on antidepressant medications, notably selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and their association with suicidal thoughts and actions (suicidality).
Researchers report an inverse relationship between antidepressant prescriptions and the rates of suicide in children and adolescents.
Brief Internet based interventions for depression are not only immediately effective, but have a significant positive long term benefit.
when it comes to the link between the personality trait of neuroticism and vulnerability for depression Genetic factors may be at play.
Although drugs that target the brain's serotonin system are widely used to treat depression, the basic biological mechanism by which they help to alleviate symptoms depression is poorly understood.
Cardiologists know that treating depression likely will benefit patients complaining of cardiovascular problems, but lack the guidance to properly diagnose or recommend treatment for depression.
