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Stress from having fewer daylight hours can result in Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.)
October 31, 2008 /

Friday, October 31, 2008 Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) It is the end of Daylight Savings Time and the beginning of shorter days and longer nights. For many people, especially women, this annual change of seasons also triggers a change in mood, leading to feelings of fatigue, depression and anxiety — more severe than just winter blues. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, about half a million Americans suffer from winter-onset depression, or Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. Although more common in northern regions where the winters are longer, the condition plagues residents in southern regions, too.
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Fall Back; Turning your clocks back may just help your heart.
October 31, 2008 /

your heart. It’s time to turn your clocks back this weekend Friday, October 31, 2008 New York — Turning your clock back on Sunday may be good for your heart. Swedish researchers looked at 20 years of records and discovered that the number of heart attacks dipped on the Monday after clocks were set back an hour, possibly because people got an extra hour of sleep. Matt Dunham/Associated Press An Extra hour of sleep cited as making all the difference in curbing heart attacks Swedish researchers say that the hour gained when setting our clocks back leads to fewer heart attacks over the next few days. The opposite effect is…
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Protection Against Depression? Latest Study Suggests Sprituality
October 25, 2008 /

24 Oct 2008 Those who worship a higher power often do so in different ways. Whether they are active in their religious community, or prefer to simply pray or meditate, new research out of Temple University suggests that a person’s religiousness – also called religiosity – can offer insight into their risk for depression. Lead researcher Joanna Maselko, Sc.D., characterized the religiosity of 918 study participants in terms of three domains of religiosity: religious service attendance, which refers to being involved with a church; religious well-being, which refers to the quality of a person’s relationship with a higher power; and existential well-being, which refers to a person’s sense of meaning…
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Patients Suffering From Chronic Pain Feel Anxious Or Depressed As A Result Of Their Pain
October 24, 2008 /

Despite treatment efforts, chronic pain management is failing one in three (n = 377) patients suffering from severe chronic pain, and three in five (n = 336) patients feel moderately or extremely anxious or depressed as a result of their pain. Whilst eight in ten (n = 377) chronic pain patients are taking prescription medication, one in two (n = 307) of these patients are suffering the additional burden of side effects. These are the findings released today from the interim data from PainSTORY (Pain Study Tracking Ongoing Responses for Year), the first survey of its kind to provide in-depth insight into how chronic pain impacts the lives of…
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Women Who Have Eating Disorders In Pregnancy Have More Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression.
October 23, 2008 /

New research finds that women who have bulimia in pregnancy have more symptoms of anxiety and depression compared to pregnant women without eating disorders. (Credit: iStockphoto/Sharon Dominick) Pregnant Women With Bulimia Have More Anxiety And Depression Study Finds ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2008) — Women who have bulimia in pregnancy have more symptoms of anxiety and depression compared to pregnant women without eating disorders. A new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) shows that they also have lower self-esteem and are more dissatisfied with life and their relationship with their partner. The findings come from the world’s first major population study of psychosocial factors in bulimia (bulimia nervosa)…
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Women Who Have Eating Disorders In Pregnancy Have More Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression.
October 23, 2008 /

New research finds that women who have bulimia in pregnancy have more symptoms of anxiety and depression compared to pregnant women without eating disorders. (Credit: iStockphoto/Sharon Dominick) Pregnant Women With Bulimia Have More Anxiety And Depression Study Finds ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2008) — Women who have bulimia in pregnancy have more symptoms of anxiety and depression compared to pregnant women without eating disorders. A new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) shows that they also have lower self-esteem and are more dissatisfied with life and their relationship with their partner. The findings come from the world’s first major population study of psychosocial factors in bulimia (bulimia nervosa)…
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Latest Discovery On Why People Develop Seasonal Affective Disorder (Sad)
October 19, 2008 /

ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2008) — Why do many Canadians get the winter blues? In the first study of its kind in the living human brain, Dr. Jeffrey Meyer and colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have discovered greater levels of serotonin transporter in the brain in winter than in summer. These findings have important implications for understanding seasonal mood change in healthy people, vulnerability to seasonal affective disorders and the relationship of light exposure to mood.
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Generalized Social Phobia is Characterized by Fear & Avoidance of Social Situations
October 19, 2008 /

ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2008) — Magnetic resonance brain imaging reveals that patients with generalized social phobia respond differently than others to negative comments about themselves, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “It is fear of being judged negatively by others, as well” the authors write as background information in the article. “It is the most common anxiety disorder in the general population, with the lifetime prevalence estimated at 13.3 percent, and it is associated with a high risk for depression, alcohol and drug abuse and suicide.” Previous studies have found differences in the way brains of affected individuals…
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Lost Common Sense about Depression: Relationships
October 14, 2008 /

Bruce E. Levine Lost Common Sense about Depression: Relationships Both research and experience have long informed mental health professionals of a strong link between depression and relationship dissatisfaction. So why is psychiatry losing that awareness? One major reason is the disappearance in psychiatry of psychotherapy (talk therapy), in which it becomes obvious just how important our significant relationships are to our mental health. According to the August 2008 Archives of General Psychiatry article “National Trends in Psychotherapy by Office-Based Psychiatrists,” the percentage of patient visits to a psychiatrist involving any psychotherapy fell to 28.9% in 2004-2005 (from 44.4% in 1996-1997), and the percentage of psychiatrists using psychotherapy with…
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FDA CLEARS NeuroStarÂ® TMS THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION
October 11, 2008 /

FDA CLEARS NeuroStar® TMS THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION First and Only Non-systemic and Non-invasive Treatment Cleared for Patients Who Have Not Benefited From Prior Antidepressant Treatment Malvern, PA, [October 8, 2008] – Neuronetics, Inc., a privately-held medical device company and a leader in the field of neuromodulation, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its NeuroStar TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) Therapy system for the treatment of depression. NeuroStar TMS Therapy® is specifically indicated for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adult patients who have failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from one prior antidepressant medication at or above the minimal effective dose and…
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