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It’s not unusual for young people to experience “the blues” or feel “down in the dumps” occasionally. Adolescence is always an unsettling time, with the many physical, emotional, psychological and social changes that accompany this stage of life. Unrealistic academic,
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A team of researchers has discovered that the protein that forms plaques in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease also accumulates in the eyes of people with Down syndrome. The new findings in Down syndrome show that the toxic protein, known
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Depression in the elderly is very common. It can be triggered by social isolation and the emotional reaction to the loss of loved family members or friends. Depression in the elderly can make them withdraw from all social contact. ‘Depression
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The U.S. Air Force Suicide Prevention Program (AFSPP) has reduced suicide rates significantly since it was launched in 1996, according to a new study that examined almost three decades of data. “The enduring public health message from 12 years of
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The rate of those of us having mental issues involving anxiety seems to decline a bit as we advance in age. On the other hand, if we have depression, it can be harder to treat in seniors. So say two
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As I mentioned in part I of this blog, there is a strong association between insulin resistance, diabetes and mental health. Caught and treated early, insulin resistance is reversible in >90% of patients, and there is a clear improvement in
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THE American poet Carl Sandburg depicted Chicago at the beginning of the last century as the “City of the Big Shoulders”, “Tool maker” and “Hog Butcher to the World” – epithets befitting its place in the first half of that
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Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders where the person experiences states or episodes of depression and/or mania, hypomania, and/or mixed states. Left untreated, it is a severely disabling psychiatric
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A number of neurodegenerative disorders present with a combination of psychiatric, cognitive, and neurological symptoms. Consistent with the existence of the concept of nonmotoric cerebellar functions, preliminary evidence points to cognitive and psychiatric disturbances in patients with diseases affecting the
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More than one-third of teenagers with treatment-resistant depression – many of whom had been depressed for more than two years – became symptom-free six months after switching their medication or combining a medicine switch with cognitive behavioral therapy during a
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During the year following hospitalization for a traumatic brain injury, a majority of patients experienced major depression, according to a study in the May 19 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on mental health. Charles H. Bombardier, Ph.D., of the
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An intervention in primary care settings that allowed a choice of cognitive behavior therapy, medication, or both, along with computer-assisted treatment support for patients with common anxiety disorders, resulted in greater improvement in anxiety symptoms and functional disability compared to
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