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Scientists at the Monash University announce the creation of a new technique for detecting and diagnosing mental and neurological illnesses, which they argue is so efficient, that it's able to detect depression in less than an hour. The new method has been dubbed with the catchy name “electrovestibulograph... |
15 October 2009
10:03 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently published a new paper arguing that monitoring the activity that teens and children have on social-networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, could lead to a decrease in the number of suicides in this age group. Victoria University School of Information Management Professor Dr. ... |
14 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Happiness is a word many of us use to describe emotional states, and its meaning is clear to everyone. But, among scientists, determining a clear definition of the word proves to be a bit of a head scratcher. Finding out where the trait comes from is even more difficult. Some schools of thought propose a genetic orig... |
26 September 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Mental conditions plaguing teenagers are often regarded by adults as being less important and serious than the ones that plague them, although that is not necessarily the case. For quite some time now, experts have been drawing attention to the fact that adolescents are living in a very stressful environment, but the... |
24 September 2009
10:28 GMT |
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A recent survey has shown the physicians prescribing depression drugs to their patients usually select between one of two antidepressants, because these are the medicines they prescribe more often, and also the cures they feel most comfortably using. Sadly, this method of attributing medication to people does not tak... |
23 September 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Over the years, studies have shown that between 14 and 23 percent of pregnant women suffer from one form of depression, in various degrees. Since 1999, the number of women treating their depression symptoms with anti-depressants nearly doubled, and reached about 13 percent in 2003. In a new paper, published in the S... |
21 September 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center have recently discovered, after a five-year study, that sleep patterns in children and teenagers play an important role in predicting depression risks years later in life. For some time, researchers have known that adults who are depressed experience rapid-eye moveme... |
13 August 2009
09:33 GMT |
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According to a new report published in the June issue of the Journal of Women's Health, women who are depressive during pregnancy run a risk of giving birth prematurely. The paper also reveals that Black patients have twice as high chances of delivering babies before nine months than White patients, although the... |
26 June 2009
04:48 GMT |
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The whole fad was started by a 2003 scientific study, which held that there must be a gene variant that made some people sail through life all depressed and sad, while others did so without any kind of second thoughts, and always enjoying the moment. The theory seemed solid, because it would have explained some diffe... |
17 June 2009
01:58 GMT |
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According to an Australian researcher, online therapy sessions against depression are just as effective in combating the disorder and its symptoms as face-to-face meetings between doctors and patients. The find may allow for the creation of new treatment options, which could potentially reach those who are too scared... |
13 June 2009
06:04 GMT |
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She’s considered one of the most beautiful women currently working in showbiz, yet Megan Fox is not free of insecurities, as she reveals in a recent interview with GQ magazine (story via ContactMusic). Like most female stars, Megan too succumbed to the pressure of always looking good, and reached a low point wh... |
9 June 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Depression is a mental condition that has become increasingly widespread over the last couple of decades, and, ever since, has entered the focus of a great number of scientific studies, all aimed at finding cures for it. A host of treatments already exists, but they are unable to cover all aspects of the disease, and... |
29 April 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Women who give birth to twins or have multiple births are more exposed to suffering from post-natal depression or other complications, a new study has found. With many of them, things get as bad as them not speaking with another adult for more than an hour a day, the research has also established, as reported by the ... |
16 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Whether we’re dieting to lose weight or not, suffering from the effects of a bad diet can happen to any of us. This is why it is imperious that we learn to read the signs and, if this truly proves to be the case, change whatever needs to be changed to eliminate the causing factors, nutritionists say for Shape m... |
27 March 2009
17:31 GMT |
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In a new paper, published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers argue that those people who have had a history of depression in their families are more likely to exhibit reduced volumes of brain matter on their right side. That is to say, scans reveal t... |
24 March 2009
11:22 GMT |
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A new scientific study comes to show a completely new angle of the way health experts look at depression. The paper says that it's not necessarily negative thoughts and emotions that make up the main characteristics of the condition, but rather sufferers' inabilities to see the bright side of things. Diffic... |
19 March 2009
09:53 GMT |
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According to a new paper published in the latest edition of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, typically sedentary children aged 7 through 11 benefit a great deal from exercising as little as 20 to 40 minutes a day. According to health experts at the Medical College of Georgia, out of the 207 kids that took part in... |
18 March 2009
11:53 GMT |
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Since alcohol abuse has first been tied to depression, doctors have thought that it's the latter that makes people pick up drinking, on account of the fact that depression has been believed to be caused by factors independent of beverages. Now, according to a new batch of studies, the opposite seems to be true, ... |
3 March 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Scientists in the UK argue that some people are simply born with whatever it is that happy and optimistic individuals have over others. In other words, their brains may be hardwired since birth to behave in the way that they do, with the same holding true for those who are gloomy all the time, and only see the glass ... |
25 February 2009
11:00 GMT |
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According to new scientific research, it's not various mental conditions that affect our sleep and make people tired all the time, but vice versa. That is to say, too little sleep or agitated rest can easily trigger “malfunctions” as far as brain health goes, and may open the way to the development o... |
19 February 2009
04:10 GMT |
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The human mind indeed works in mysterious ways, researchers from the University of Washington (UW), who have recently concluded a 7 year-long study designed to give them a new perspective on the triggering factors of depression in early adolescence, say. They learned that anti-social behavior and anxiety were the mos... |
18 February 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Teenagers who spend a lot of time in front of the TV or under the influence of other mass-media outlets are very likely to develop symptoms related to depression early in their adult life, a new study finds. As a background, the paper, published in the February edition of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, d... |
4 February 2009
05:06 GMT |
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We live today in a world that functions in extreme stress conditions, to the point that stress becomes the engine that keeps the wheels spinning, it has been often said. For middle-aged women, a new survey shows, it’s precisely this stress that leads to depression and anxiety, which are now being described as &... |
28 January 2009
13:51 GMT |
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We live in a world that keeps repeating to us that we should head to a psychologist whenever we’re in a situation that we feel gets the best of us emotionally, as well as take a bunch of pills every night before going to bed to fight depression and sleeplessness. Not so anymore – scientists believe that d... |
15 January 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Depression and anxiety are two medical conditions that are extremely difficult to treat by doctors, mostly because they have to do with a person's state of mind, and not necessarily with something going wrong inside their body. However, these diseases can also affect the body, in light of the actions people suff... |
16 December 2008
03:20 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies have shown that nostalgia also has positive effects on the human mind and is not only characterized by insomnia, anxiety and depression, among other things. Constantine Sedikides, a psychologist at the University of Southampton, says that nostalgia can also help people remember positive aspe... |
13 December 2008
05:45 GMT |
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Students from a private medical school in Brazil were part of a new scientific study, which was aimed at understanding exactly why soon-to-be doctors were so depressed during their internship years. About 481 people enrolled in the survey and submitted to periodic examinations, performed by ABC Regional Medical Schoo... |
5 December 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Researchers at John Watkins Hospital (JWH) in Baltimore recently conducted a census on more than 21 previously-published studies, totaling more than 150,000 female test subjects, from which they found that there was no significant difference in mental health between a woman who had an abortion and one who didn't... |
4 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Elected officials, occupying high-responsibility positions, should get an independent health assessment yearly, as well as full check-ups before their candidacy is accepted to various positions. Doctor Lord David Owen, a member of the UK House of Lords, said that this would make people more aware of how their leaders... |
13 November 2008
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A new scientific study shows that the handedness of a patient is crucial in understanding at least a part of his or her behavior. Apparently, all left-handed people share in common traits such as anxiety, depression and fear of making important decisions, unlike right-handers. The researchers behind this survey say t... |
4 November 2008
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Psychologists say that the network of environmental factors that cause more and more teenagers to commit suicide is far more complex than anyone thought. They base their say on a new scientific study that revealed the important role neighborhoods play in influencing adolescents to develop suicidal thoughts. Daily vio... |
27 October 2008
00:55 GMT |
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Depression and mental illness, such as bipolar disorder, have been linked with creativity, in a new study led by Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. Psychologists now believe that ruminating personalities could become more creative or stumble in the depths of depression with the... |
9 October 2008
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Although the birth of an ocean is an extremely rare phenomenon on the largest of historical scales, the geophysics is currently experiencing such an event. Even more dazzling, this occurs in one of the Earth's most inhospitable and arid regions, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.The African continent is literally ... |
1 October 2008
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Sudden infant death syndrome, also known as cot death in certain areas of the world, is a condition in which infant children up to several months of age die without warning, although not suffering of any serious known diseases. Cot death is largely mysterious even today, since there is no clear indication to what is ... |
4 July 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Have you ever felt like absolutely nothing is able to raise your interest or that the greatest thing in the world might happen right next to you and you would not even notice it? Or that everybody is against you, nobody understands, nobody cares and even the ones that you love are trying to take advantage of you? If ... |
30 June 2008
11:59 GMT |
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We live extremely stressful lives and with constantly increasing problems connected to everything from money to the price of gas, to our jobs and relationships, romantic or otherwise, it's no wonder most of us worry. A lot. In one of the few stress-free moments you do have, while taking a bath or lounging in bed... |
16 June 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Depression has slowly turned into one of the staple conditions of our times: it affects people of all ages, backgrounds, lifestyles and nationalities, with about 121 million people worldwide currently suffering from depression and fewer than 25% of them having access to effective treatment. Not only is depression amo... |
10 June 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Depression is one of the darkest and most versatile demons of our age. Statistics show that 15% of the population of most developed countries suffers from severe depression, and most of those affected by this extremely dangerous affliction are women. In fact, researchers predict that, by 2020, depression is most like... |
5 June 2008
12:10 GMT |
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Asthma is a chronic condition of the respiratory system which manifests a rapidly increasing prevalence in the developed world. Indeed, one in four urban children in modern developed societies is suffering from this disease, which involves an inflammation of the airways in response to a number of external triggers su... |
30 May 2008
03:35 GMT |
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What they say about men being from Mars and women from Venus is now an almost established fact, as is also that they have different brains and different behaviors. However, this becomes all the more obvious when it comes to them coping with stress. Women facing stressful situations are more prone to depression and an... |
13 May 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Modern life and the rapid pace at which it evolves have created many unadapted individuals. At the moment, over 121 million people worldwide experience severe depression, which is also the main cause of suicide. Annually, more people commit suicide than are killed in wars, terrorist attacks and homicides. Worldwide, ... |
6 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This drug is better known as an antidepressant. But Prozac has been found by a new study published in the journal Science to restore old brain cells to a more plastic youthful stage. "The work raises the distant prospect that it could be used to treat other conditions caused by malfunction of brain cells. One of them... |
21 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Looking for a hot babe? Then go directly to the sad girl at the party. The sexual tigress lurks inside her. A new research published in the British Medical Journal shows that women who experience from mild to moderate depressions have with up to 30% more sex than women with a more balanced psyche. The study was made ... |
24 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Those cute traits of an infant's face, such as large head and forehead, big eyes and bulging cheeks, trigger instinctive parental and protective responses in us. This has been known for long, but a new research revealed the anatomic base of this behavior. The study led by Morten Kringelbach and Alan Stein from t... |
27 February 2008
04:40 GMT |
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If the newborn is a boy, that's bad news for the mother: this has been associated with increased levels of severe post-natal depression (PND) and lowered quality of life than in the case of a newborn girl, as found by a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing.The team led by Professor Claude de Ty... |
15 February 2008
05:05 GMT |
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As if one problem is not enough, it seems to attract others as well. A new research shows that employees losing their jobs due to health issues can experience further increased depression and health deterioration than those losing their jobs due to non-health issues. It also appears that those finding quickly a new ... |
21 January 2008
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Well, a sad woman may not enjoy sex too much. A hungry one may not have energy to do it. And childbirth requires some recovering time... A new research made by a team led by Dr Frances A. Carter of the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University in New Zealand, and published in the Internati... |
8 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The skunk working next to you at the office may have an explanation: he may be depressed! A team from Tel Aviv University, in a research published in the journal "Arthritis and Rheumatism", has found a connection between depression and lowered sense of smell. "Our scientific findings suggest that women who are depr... |
7 January 2008
03:52 GMT |
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We know this is not the kind of news you'd like to hear, especially now, during the holidays, but that is what Doctor Chou Yuan-hua, from the department of Psychiatry of Taipei Veterans General Hospital claims to happen if you play video games. Actually, he says that gamers risk to damage their brain functions a... |
27 December 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Severe depression can lead to suicide, but milder cases are related not only to mental sufferance: a new National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research shows that premenopausal women with mild depression experience increased bone mass loss than their non-depressed counterparts, similar to that induced by smoking... |
28 November 2007
04:24 GMT |
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