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Till now, we believed psychological disturbances to be the main reason behind depression. At the same time, food items, at least some of them, were considered to be one of the tools that help fight depression. However, it is now
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Low mood or mood swings is something that every individual experiences in his/her life, at some point of time or the other. Being cheerful all the time is something next to impossible. However, if you feel that you are feeling
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John Kenneth Galbraith once said that all academic disciplines have their disputes, much cherished by participants, and regularly combining differences in method with deep personal dislike. I continue this debate reluctantly, because I have no personal acquaintance of Dr. Frances,
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Are you letting bad mood ruin your day? For some people the feeling of gloominess or depression is due to neuro-chemical or hormonal imbalance and for others it’s the daily stress or upsetting events that wear down one’s emotional reserves.
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One of the most important distinctions in all of psychiatry is often also the most difficult to make- is the patient’s depression part of a bipolar or a unipolar course of mood disorder. This is so consequential a decision because
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Are women – but not men – hard-wired to be fat-phobes? Female brains react in a negative way when they view photos of overweight individuals, even when they’re of a normal weight themselves, according to a study from Brigham Young
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Existing drugs used to treat depression and other mood disorders might be useful to limit brain damage following a stroke because they promote the growth of new nerve cells in the brain, according to a study in mice. The research
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Lana, a 38 year-old publicist in Los Angeles, California, was diagnosed with genital herpes in 1997. Since then, she has “kind of been hiding” from the dating scene. Let’s face it: How do you drop that bomb on a potential
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When the Patient Voices series recently featured Tourette’s syndrome, an odd and little understood disorder that causes jerking movements and tics, dozens of readers had questions for the Consults blog. Here, one reader wonders whether Tourette’s is related to autism
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Everyone becomes down or sad at times. Life events, or just a bad day can sometimes make us upset, and small things like bad traffic can make us irritable. But when a person experiences constant feelings of sadness and irritability,
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This week in Baltimore a post-doctoral student who studied neuroscience and the effect of drugs on the brain at Johns Hopkins University died from an overdose of an injected narcotic drug. The person who died was apparently experimenting with multiple
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Every single day I think about the time I tried to kill myself. It is one of my strongest and most detailed memories. I mention it in passing in my talks as if it is just a point of reference,
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