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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, is launching a new effort in the Real Men Real Depression campaign – Spanish-language materials to inform the Latino community about depression and to encourage men
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Postpartum depression has gotten a lot of press recently, in part due to Brooke Shields’s book and Tom Cruise’s misinformed comments about it. A certain mystery seems to surround this illness. Women fear it, understandably. Just at the time when
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Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and heart disease is by far the leading cause of death in the United States (it’s currently estimated that one in three Americans will die of some form of heart disease). Research
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and other study sites have found that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) – a non-invasive technique that excites neurons in the brain via magnetic pulses passed through the scalp – is a
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Premenopausal women with even mild depression have less bone mass than do their nondepressed peers, a study funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows. The level of
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Black and Hispanic adults with depression may not do as well on drug therapy as whites do, a study suggests. Researchers found that among nearly 2,700 U.S. adults receiving an antidepressant for major depression, African Americans and Latinos had lower
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In theory, psychiatric advance directives provide a way to improve medical decision making during a mental health crisis. Directives indicate, in advance, what treatments a patient prefers or who should make decisions if he or she becomes incapacitated. However, two
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Low levels of vitamin B12 could speed mental decline in older people, a new study suggests. Among a group of men and women aged 65 and older, those whose levels of two B12 activity markers indicated higher blood levels of
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The study is the country’s first nationally representative research into common mental disorders and was concluded as part of an international World Health Organisation (WHO) study. Of the 14 countries in the WHO study, South Africa had the second-highest substance-abuse
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Mental illness is widespread and often undiagnosed, with the World Health Organisation estimating that 450-million people worldwide suffer from mental illness. So what is mental illness? It is “any diagnosable mental, behavioural, or emotional disorder that interferes with, or limits
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New research suggests African-Americans and Latinos may require an accentuated treatment regimen for depression than what is effective for whites. Drawing from data in the nation’s largest real-world study of treatment-resistant depression, scientists report the study reveals that the lower
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Psychotropic drugs are often prescribed for unlicensed indications in people with mental health problems and behavioural challenges arising from developmental delay or arrest. Common indications include the management of sleep disturbances, increased arousal and self-injurious behaviour, and problems related to
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