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A UNC School of Medicine study has provided the first direct evidence that a low dose of electric current can enhance a specific brain pattern to boost creativity by an average of 7.4 percent in healthy adults, according to a
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Although rural living has been tied to higher risk of depression, a new U.S. study finds that country life may have differing effects on women of different races and ethnicities. African American women living in rural areas were at lower
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African-American women who live in rural areas have lower rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) and mood disorder compared with their urban counterparts, while rural non-Hispanic white women have higher rates for both than their urban counterparts, according to an
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More than 80 percent of people with depression in the general population aren’t eligible for clinical trials of antidepressant drugs, according to a study in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer. At least five
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We all feel emotion, we all get upset, can feel low, angry and overjoyed, but when do these emotional responses become something of a medical concern? When are these feelings inappropriate, too intense, or lasting too long? When is the
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Persistent depression may double the risk for stroke in adults aged 50 years and older, and stroke risk remains elevated even when symptoms remit, suggesting a cumulative etiologic mechanisms linking depression and stroke, new research shows. “Multiple prior studies” have
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Those suffering from depressive symptoms have an increased risk for physical diseases, especially for arthrosis and arthritis. These findings were reported by researchers from the University of Basel and the Ruhr-University Bochum. Their results, based on data from 14,300 people
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Caroll Marlow, 71, said she has been rescued from clinical depression by researchers at Washington University who want to help people older than 60. After more than 40 years of living with depression, she said, experiences and feelings that are
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Can a stroll help ease depression? That question preoccupied Dr. Madhukar H. Trivedi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, after several of his patients, all suffering from serious depression, mentioned that they
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When Lucy Johnstone began working in mental health nearly 20 years ago, bipolar disorder – or manic depression as it was known then – made up a small fraction of her workload. ‘Now, every other referral is someone with suspected
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A former Minnesota nurse who advised depressed people over the Internet about the best way to tie ropes to hang themselves and encouraged one to webcast the event, was found guilty on Tuesday of inciting two suicides. William Melchert-Dinkel, 48,
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – nearly half of U.S. kids meet the criteria of a mental disorder and almost one in four report having a mood disorders, anxiety or behavior that interferes with daily life, the researchers say Americans. Fifty percent of
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