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Defeating Depression In Later Life - America is aging. The first of the baby boom generation are now eligible for Medicare; by 2030, 72 million 1 in 5 Americans will be over 65. As boomers are learning, getting older means greying hair or losing hair; it means increased wrinkles and slowed metabolism. But depression, described by Winston Churchill as "the black dog," absolutely isn't either normal or a natural part of later life...

No Evidence Of Increased Risk Of Depression In Severely Obese Teens - According to a new study, severely obese adolescents are no more likely to be depressed than normal weight peers. The study, which has been released online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, did find that white adolescents may be somewhat more vulnerable to psychological effects of obesity...

Happiest Places Have Highest Suicide Rates Says New Research - The happiest countries and happiest U.S. states tend to have the highest suicide rates, according to research from the UK's University of Warwick, Hamilton College in New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco...

Researchers Find Antidepressants May Not Improve All Symptoms Of Depression - Even people who show a clear treatment response with antidepressant medications continue to experience symptoms like insomnia, sadness and decreased concentration, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found after analyzing data from the largest study on the treatment of depression. "Widely used antidepressant medications, while working overall, missed these symptoms...

Childhood Abuse And Adolescent Depression Biologically Linked - Kate Harkness has found that a history of physical, sexual or emotional abuse in childhood substantially increases the risk of depression in adolescence by altering a person's neuroendocrine response to stress...

New Mental Health Foundation Report Shows Benefits Of Local Authority-Funded Adult Learning In Tackling Depression And Anxiety - UK charity the Mental Health Foundation has today warned that spending cuts for adult learning courses could prove a false economy in terms of tackling the burden mental health problems place on the economy and society...

Targeting Depression Can Help Diabetes Patients Improve Overall Health - Frequently, depression and diabetes go hand in hand. And depression can be a major obstacle for people living with diabetes, making it less likely they'll stick to a medicine schedule or exercise regimen...

New Drug Offers Hope For Depression - An estimated 19 million Americans suffer from depression, and though the symptoms might be recognizable, the brain chemistry that underlies them is incompletely understood...

Early Studies Show Anti-Depressants Boost Brain Cells After Injury - Anti-depressants may help spur the creation and survival of new brain cells after brain injury, according to a study by neurosurgeons at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Jason Huang, M.D...

Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth Suicides Lower In Supportive Environments - Young people who are gay, lesbian or bisexual are 20% more likely to commit suicide in communities that are less supportive of homosexuality compared to those who live in supportive environments, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, PhD, from Columbia University in New York revealed in the journal Pediatrics...

Adults Who Have Lost A Loved One Due To Suicide Needed For Complicated Grief Study At Pitt - Researchers from the Late-Life Depression Evaluation and Treatment Program at the University of Pittsburgh are seeking adults ages 18 to 95 who have experienced the loss of a loved one due to suicide and are having emotional difficulties coping with grief...

New Data Show No Negative Long-Term Effect In Cognitive Function In Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Treated With NeuroStar TMS Therapy(R) - In an open-label study of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who had not benefitted from prior antidepressant medication and were treated with Neuronetics' NeuroStar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy, no negative effects in cognitive function were observed following six-month follow-up...

GPs Need To Understand That There's More To Depression - GPs need more confidence in helping people to manage their depression a new survey reveals. Despite 96% of GPs usually or always making an attempt to determine the severity level of depression at diagnosis, only 11% are very confident at discussing what this means for treatment choices with their patients, and only 20% always try to...

Pharmacists - Key In Mental Health Care Delivery, Australia - A media report today showing that more than half of Australians suffering disorders such as anxiety and depression still go without treatment highlights the need for the greater involvement of other health-care professionals such as pharmacists in the treatment of patients with mental illness...

Suicides Rise When Economy Does Badly, And Fall When It Does Well - A country's suicide rate follows the opposite path to its economic cycle - when the economy rises fewer people commit suicide, when it falls the number of suicides rises, a new CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) study published in the American Journal of Public Health reveals...

Drinking And Dying In Russia: Stanford Research Casts Sober Light On Russia's Mortality Crisis - With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians were faced with more than the demise of a political system. Working-age men began dying in droves, and the country saw a 40 percent surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. The killer was often alcohol - that much was clear...

Traumatic Brain Injury Shows Strong Link To Depression, But Treatments Lack Study - Vanderbilt researchers conducting an extensive analysis of studies on traumatic brain injury (TBI), report today that 30 percent of TBI patients, or approximately 360,000 patients each year, will also suffer from depression after their injury...

Omega-3 Consumed During Pregnancy Curbs Risk For Postpartum Depression Symptoms - Fish has long been considered in myriad cultures to be "brain food," but only recently has bona fide science begun to support this deep-rooted belief. Researchers now know that the omega-3 fatty acids found in oily fish such as salmon and herring may play a critical role in both development and maintenance of the brain and nerves...

DOD Grant To Determine Common Genetic Link Among Gulf War Illness Patients - For nearly two decades following the 1991 Gulf War, doctors noticed a trend in many of veterans of that conflict: an unexplainable cluster of symptoms including but not limited to chronic fatigue, memory loss, and depression. It wasn't until 2008 that a scientific panel from the U.S...

New Target For Developing Effective Anti-Depressants - For the first time in a human model, scientists have discovered how anti-depressants make new brain cells. This means that researchers can now develop better and more efficient drugs to combat depression. Previous studies have shown that anti-depressants make new brain cells, however, until now it was not known how they did it...

Feeling Blue? Talk To Your GP, UK - Age UK Publishes Key New Depression resource for Older People. Age UK has launched a new interactive booklet called 'Feeling Blue?' to provide help and guidance to people tackling depression in later life. More than a quarter of people over 65 suffer from depression (1), but many don't get the help or treatment they need...

Depression Alliance Calls Time On The Depression Epidemic Amongst People With Long Term Conditions, UK - Depression Alliance is calling on politicians of all colours to exert their collective energy on how the NHS reforms can address the epidemic of depression in people with long term conditions...

Treatment For Depression A Long-Term Solution - Ian Colman, an epidemiologist in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, recently completed a study that suggests that treatment of depression may have long-term benefits...

BPS Grant Helping Depressed Men Stay 'Young At Heart', UK - A horticultural project for men who are at risk of depression and possible suicide living in Barking and Dagenham was launched this spring, with the support of a British Psychological Society Public Engagement grant and the North East London NHS Foundation Trust...

Older Adults Needed To Study Treatments For Chronic Lower Back Pain And Depression - To help older adults living with low back pain and depression, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Late Life Depression Program, affiliated with the Aging Institute of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, are seeking participants for a clinical trial that will study the effectiveness of medication combined with counseling...