A unique new therapy that applies electrical stimulation to a major nerve emanating from the brain is showing promise for major depression. In a recently completed clinical trial, trigeminal nerve stimulation achieved an average of a 70 percent reduction in symptom severity over an 8-week study.
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July 24, 2010
Major depression associated with impaired processing of emotion in music?
Previous studies have found that the processing of faces and voices is negatively biased in major depression. Naranjo and colleagues were the first to investigate possible effects of major depression on the recognition of emotion in music. According to the authors: as music is not directly linked to interpersonal communication, comparing a musical task with [...]... Naranjo, C., Kornreich
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July 7, 2010
Depression Appears To Be A Cause Of Dementia
We know that people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia also suffer from depression. Some studies have shown that people with a history of major depression are twice as likely as others to eventually develop dementia. However, nobody really knows whether depression is a symptom of dementia or a potential cause of it...
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June 16, 2010
Sleep Markers Support New Animal Model of Depression
By Hannah Dunbar(Hannah Dunbar is an Oral Roberts University student providing a guest post reviewing a study of a mouse model of depression.) Sleep disturbances are one of the most common clinical features in major depression. Patients commonly report problems with insomnia and daytime fatigue and sleepiness. These sleep symptoms have been the source of study in sleep laboratories. Several
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May 20, 2010
Getting Fit with Wii–Ranking Exercise MET Values
Regular exercise has been shown to be helpful in the prevention and management of a variety of clinical neuroscience conditions including: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, major depression and anxiety disorders. However, motivating people to get involved in a regular exercise program is a significant challenge. Wii Sports and Wii Fit Plus may provide the motivation edge for some patien
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January 26, 2010
The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling?
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years. Today five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or an anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it
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January 8, 2010
Whither Melancholia?
After formulating and signing "Melancholia: A Declaration of Independence," an international cadre of psychiatrists recently launched a campaign to have the upcoming DSM-V recognize melancholia as a distinct syndrome rather than as a specifier for the mood disorders of major depression and bipolar disorder.
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January 6, 2010
Few Americans With Major Depression Receive Adequate Treatment
Many U.S. adults with major depression do not receive treatment for depression or therapy based on treatment guidelines, and some racial and ethnic groups have even lower rates of adequate depression care, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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Utilization of depression treament: demand is high but access is low
by Joye C. Anestis We have spent a considerable amount of time here at PBB discussing the treatment of major depression. If you're a regular reader, you know that effective depression treatments are well-documented, and consumers have a variety of...
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December 19, 2009
Elderly Most At Risk For Major Depression Identified By Study
University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression. The researchers, led by Jeffrey M. Lyness, M.D., professor of Psychiatry at the Medical Center, reported their findings in an article in the December issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry...
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