Fat People Not More Jolly, Study Says

Fat people are not more jolly, according to a study that instead found obesity is strongly linked with depression and other mood disorders.

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Study: 3rd Depression Drug Rarely Helps

The large group of depression sufferers who haven't recovered with two common medications stand little chance of success from a third drug, says the latest report from the nation's most ambitious study of depression treatment.

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States Screening for Postpartum Depression

The attention goes to celebrity sufferers, such as Brooke Shields, or to grim cases in which mothers kill their children. But beyond the headlines about postpartum depression, states are making strides in raising awareness of the disorder and screening more mothers for it.

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Depression Linked to Approach of Menopause

Two separate studies show a woman's risk for a first bout with depression rises sharply as she approaches menopause.

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Study: Changing Medicines May Aid Depressed

The largest study ever done on treating depression has found that patients who didn't get well with the first medicine they tried had a good chance of succeeding the second time around.

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Treating Moms' Depression May Help Kids

Treating a mother's depression can help prevent it and other disorders in her child, say researchers in a provocative study that may influence family health care.

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Study: Drugs Better for Elderly Depression

For elderly people who suffer bouts of depression, drugs work surprisingly better than psychotherapy at keeping these black spells from returning, suggests the longest study ever in patients so old.

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Regulators OK Patch to Treat Depression

Federal regulators approved the first antidepressant skin patch on Tuesday, providing a different way to administer a drug already used by Parkinson's disease patients.

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Stress therapy offer to ill jobless

From the page: -- The government is to offer therapy treatment to people who have quit work because of stress and depression in its welfare reform bill, to be published today, which aims to cut the number of people claiming incapacity benefit. --

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Mild sadness provokes depressive thinking in some recovered patients

Some individuals with a history of depression may sink back into thinking patterns associated with the condition when faced with mild stresses or sadness, increasing their risk for relapse

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Paranoia more common than thought

One in three people in the UK regularly suffers paranoid or suspicious fears, clinical psychologists have found. They found levels of paranoia were much higher than previously suspected - and almost as high as those for depression and anxiety.

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Toxic Culture: The Great 21st-Century Tradeoff

How can it be that with all of the medical and scientific advances of the past century, people continue to be afflicted by such a staggering multitude of ailments? Furthermore, exotic new illnesses and syndromes are being identified every day.

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The New American Cold War

"As a result of the Soviet breakup in 1991, Russia, a state bearing every nuclear and other device of mass destruction, virtually collapsed. During the 1990s its essential infrastructures--political, economic and social--disintegrated.

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World Cup fans fail to lift local sex industry

The hordes of beer-swilling men who have descended on Germany for the World Cup are proving a disappointment for the host nation's sex workers, preferring to party in public rather than spend time with prostitutes. This is what's wrong with sports...

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Extroverted like me: How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy.

I enjoyed reading Seth Stevenson's experiences with Paxil.

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Common antidepressant does not increase birth defects

A new study contradicts the notion that the common antidepressant, paroxetine, will increase the risk of congential abnormalities in babies when taken by their pregnant mother.

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The Rewards of Being Shy -- Hochman 2006 (613): 3 -- ScienceNOW

Even though you couldn't tell it from my interactions here on newsvine, I have always been a very shy person myself. I have always been extremely shy in social situations and today I even take medication for social anxiety disorder. This is an interesting piece on shyness.

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Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States? (PLoS Medicine)

Tom Cruise is a fool because he speaks of things he knows little about with the authority of someone who knows alot about. Maybe in his little speech on the Today Show, he should have said something more on the lines of this seed. Still, he gets no respect from me.

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Depression linked to Type 2 diabetes

Perhaps because both are caused by being overweight. Duh.

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Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline Help Send Kids To Prison

In 2003, the pharmaceutical industry passed out $16.4 billion worth of free drug samples to doctors. These so-called free samples are literally killing people. Two young lads who were lucky enough to get free samples of Zoloft are now sitting in prison.

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Depression Caused by Modern Food Production and Poor Nutrition

Studies looking at the supplementation of antidepressants with the amino acid tryptophan have made people sit up and think about nutrition.

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Hurricane Tracking Map Powered by Google

An interesting Hurricane Tracking Map for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico powered by Google

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Cyborg City

A neat little rundown of current and upcoming machines that doctors can implant in your body for different conditions. We're all becoming cyborgs.

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Music May Ease Chronic Pain

A study in June's Journal of Advanced Nursing shows that adults with chronic pain reported less pain, depressiondepression, and disability and felt more empowered after a week of listening to music for an hour a day.

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AWOL soldier says he'll face the consequences

"I only left because I did not have the medication that I had been taking for the last eight years. If you have never suffered from anxiety and depression, you have no idea how hard it is without medication."

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Spring babies 'face suicide risk'

Good news for everyone else who was born in the springtime like myself...

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Semen acts as an anti-depressant

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SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Social care | Depression is UK's biggest social problem, government told

Why is mental illness still such a taboo? 15 per cent of people in the UK are suffering some sort of mental illness and it's crippling the economy. When will the Government sit up and take notice?

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Major Clinical Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation as Depression Treatment

Based in part on promising study results presented this week at an international neurosurgical meeting, Medtronic, Inc.

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Adoptive Parents Get Depressed

Many adoptive parents feel delirious with happiness when bringing home their child.

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Kansas City Star | 04/24/2006 | In young minds, storm still rages

Yet another story to be classified under "Statement of the Obvious", right next to "Scientific Studies of the Obvious."

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Long-term stress 'can lead to depression'

Long-term stress has been shown for the first time to be a direct cause of depression, in a breakthrough that could lead to a new generation of psychiatric drugs.

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Chronic Stress May Help Cause Depression

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