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Depression is a diagnosis that typically includes a variety of symptoms besides being sad. Some individuals may suffer anxiety while others could have poor attention, problems concentrating, memory issues and sleep difficulties. A new UCLA study discovers that the variety
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People with heart disease who take cholesterol-lowering statins may have a lower risk of depression than those who don’t take the drugs, according to a new study from California. It’s still not clear whether the popular medications have anything to
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Nobody doubts the benefits of exercise for physical health. What isn’t as widely known or discussed is how essential moderate exercise is to our mental well-being. I created an online survey which sought to find out what health strategies helped
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A new research which will be conducted at the Monash University’s School of Psychology and Psychiatry, may offer new hope for people suffering from insomnia and depression. Insomnia is a sleep disorder, more exactly it represents the inability of an
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Researchers found that people suffering from depression are less able to store information because their brains are less plastic and adaptable. The experiment, conducted by the Ssientists at Karolinska Institute has shown that D-serine, a substance synthesized by astrocytes, may
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Early diagnosis is considered key for autism, but minority children tend to be diagnosed later than white children. Some new work is beginning to try to uncover why – and to raise awareness of the warning signs so more parents
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One in four people with mental illness experiences violence of some type in a given year, a much higher rate than experienced by the rest of the population, a meta-analysis determined. The odds of a person with mental illness experiencing
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For adolescents, Facebook and other social media have created an irresistible forum for online sharing and oversharing, so much so that endless mood-of-the-moment updates have inspired a snickering retort on T-shirts and posters: “Face your problems, don’t Facebook them.” But
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New research suggests women who have migraine or have had them in the past are at an increased risk for developing depression compared to women who have never had migraine. The study was released today and will be presented at
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Stress has numerous detrimental effects on the human body. Many of these effects are acutely felt by the sufferer, but many more go ‘unseen’, one of which is shortening of telomere length. Telomeres are protective caps on the ends of
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Children in the U.S. whose activity choices, interests, and pretend play before age 11 fall outside those typically expressed by their biological sex face increased risk of being physically, psychologically, and sexually abused, and of suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder
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African-American children with autism are being diagnosed almost two years later than children of any other ethnic group, holding up their treatment, and in turn, their quality of life, according to research. The average white child is diagnosed around six
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