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More UK psychiatrists witness the dramatic consequences of relapse among the seriously mentally ill than their European colleagues, says a new international survey of psychiatrists released today (3nd September, 2008). This is despite major treatment advances.
According to the findings of the survey (commissioned jointly by the WFMH and Eli Lilly and Company Ltd.), over half of practising UK psychiatrists (54 per cent) have patients go to Read more…

According to the Mood Disorder Society of Canada, about 1.3 million Canadians suffer from depression.
University of Alberta researcher Ian Colman says most people are not getting the type of treatment they need.
Colman, an assistant professor from the School of Public Health, and his research team decided to perform a study Read more…

Policing is dangerous work, and the danger lurks not on the streets alone.
The pressures of law enforcement put officers at risk for high blood pressure, insomnia, increased levels of destructive stress hormones, heart problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, University at Buffalo researchers have found through a decade of studies of police officers.
UB researchers now are carrying out one of Read more…

IMPAX Laboratories, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted final approval of the Company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic version of Wellbutrin® XL 150 mg Extended-release Tablets on Wednesday, November 26, 2008. GlaxoSmithKline markets Wellbutrin® XL for the management of depression. generic ultram online buy IMPAX’s Global Pharmaceuticals Read more…

Research conducted by a team in Switzerland suggests that a family of genes involved in regulating the expression of other genes in the brain is responsible for helping us deal with external inputs such as stress. Their results, appearing in the December 11 advance online version of the journal Neuron, may also give a clue to why some people are more susceptible to anxiety or Read more…

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now an entirely new treatment option for patients suffering from depression.
Generic viagra pills no prescription Dr. Phil Janicak, a professor of psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center, was the principal investigator for Read more…

People taking prescription antidepressants appear to drive worse than people who aren’t taking such drugs, and depressed people on antidepressants have even more trouble concentrating and reacting behind the wheel.
These were the conclusions of a study released Sunday at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
University of North Read more…

New research by Aberdeen scientists suggests that Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) relates to an ancient timing mechanism in the brain dating back millions of years.
Discoveries by a University of Aberdeen-led team, involving collaborators in Edinburgh and Strasbourg, and published in the latest issue of Current Biology, shed new insights Read more…

A study of 439 U.S. and Mexican-born Latinas seeking pregnancy and postpartum services at public health clinics in San Antonio uncovered elevated levels of depression among the more "Americanized" women, report researchers from The University of Texas School of Public Health and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the most recent online issue of the Maternal and Child Read more…

Cancer patients are three times more likely to think they would be "better off dead" or to contemplate suicide than the rest of the population - a Cancer Research UK study reports online today.*
Patients were most likely to have these thoughts if they had substantial pain and particularly if they had serious emotional distress.
The study highlights Read more…

Although maternal suicide after giving birth is a relatively rare occurrence, suicide attempts often have long-lasting effects on the family and the infant. In a study published in the August 2008 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers compared two populations of mothers and found that a history of psychiatric disorders or substance abuse was a strong predictor of post-partum suicide Read more…

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Researchers have spent decades probing the causes of depression, schizophrenia and insomnia in humans. Buy generic levitra But a new study in this week’s PLoS Biology may have uncovered key insights into the origins of these and other conditions by examining a most unlikely research subject: worms.
The project, which was led by Oklahoma Medical Research Read more…

Depression causes patients with advanced cancer to die sooner than they should, say scientists at the University of Liverpool.
In a six-month study patients who were found to be depressed had a 7% increased chance of dying and this percentage increased depending on the severity of the depression. Depression is common in patients with advanced cancer and in a significant number of patients it is persistent. Read more…

The mammoth increase in the United States’ prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males.
"This jump in incarceration rates represents a massive intervention in American families at a time when the federal government was making claims that it was less involved in their lives," according to a University of Washington researcher who will present findings Sunday (Aug. 3) at the annual meeting Read more…

Researchers have pinpointed a mechanism in the brains of mice that could explain why some human mothers become depressed following childbirth. The discovery could lead to improved treatment for postpartum depression. Supported in part by the National Institute of Read more…

Autopsies usually point to a cause of death but now a study of brain tissue collected during these procedures, may explain an underlying cause of major depression and suicide. The international research group, led by Dr. Michael O. Poulter of Robarts Research Institute Read more…

More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program. While AA participants are reportedly notorious for their coffee drinking and cigarette smoking, very little research has quantified their consumption of these two products. Recent findings confirm that coffee and cigarette use among this population is greater than among the general U.S. population: most AA members Read more…

The lack of support for women suffering from postnatal depression - and the reduction in the health visiting service supporting those mothers - have been highlighted with the publication of a hard-hitting report into maternity services.
Unite/Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association raised its continuing concerns in this area as the Healthcare Commission issued its report saying that some NHS trusts could do more to make Read more…

Senate Democrats on Monday failed to advance legislation (S 3297) that combined 34 bills that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has blocked, CQ Today reports. The package included disease specific research measures, environmental protection legislation and measures aimed at bolstering foreign economies. Language from a measure (S 1375) that would encourage the study and treatment of postpartum depression was included in the package.
The Senate voted 52-40 Read more…

Buy levitra without prescription Researchers examined the levels of post traumatic stress reactivity (PTSR) of over 20,000 adult tsunami survivors by analyzing survey data from coastal Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia. The findings are from the first Read more…

Virginia Commonwealth University is part of an international research team that received a Wellcome Trust Foundation grant totaling more than $2.8 million to identify the genetic variants that have an impact on the risk for recurrent major depression.
The goal of the five-year project, a collaboration between researchers based at the University of Oxford in England, VCU in the United States, and Fudan University in Shanghai, China, is to identify genetic Read more…

Prescriptions filled for antidepressant drugs increased from 154 million in 2002 to 170 million in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Among the prescriptions (not including refills) which were written after patients talked with doctors in-person or over the phone. AHRQ Read more…

A team of Scottish researchers have shown that cancer patients offered a depression care intervention - delivered by specially trained oncology nurses with no previous psychiatric experience - showed improvements in symptoms of depression compared to patients offered usual care. The beneficial effects of the "Depression Care for People with Cancer" package (DCPC) were found to be sustained at 12 months follow-up, Read more…

New data from a study of patients with treatment-resistant depression who underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the subcallosal cingulate region (SCG or Cg25) of the brain shows that this intervention is generally safe and provides significant improvement in patients as early as one month Read more…