by Rachel Lit, Stanford University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The benefits of meditation have long been touted: relief from stress and anxiety, and an increased ability to focus. Stanford looks at how meditation prompts our body and brain to make these adjustments. What happens in the brain? “Meditation is an intentional practice to cultivate awareness using concentration,”...
by Jim Dryden, Washington University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For older adults with clinical depression that has not responded to standard treatments, adding the drug aripiprazole (brand name Abilify) to an antidepressant they’re already taking is more effective than switching from one antidepressant to another, according to a new multicenter study led by Washington...
by Pasteur Institute A small group of neural stem cells isolated from mice and cultured in vitro observed under a confocal microscope. (LaminB1 in green, Sox2 in red) Credit: Perception and Memory Unit—Institut Pasteur The process of aging is often related to the onset of neurological symptoms such as cognitive decline, memory loss or mood...
by Hiroshima University Credit: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels Just as computer devices acting differently can hint at the possibility of malware lurking in the background, changes in brain patterns that shape trust behavior can warn of depression even if symptoms are still in stealth mode, a study found. Brain scans revealed that shrunken gray matter volumes in...
by Samantha Laine Perfas, Harvard University The father needed answers. He’d recently completed a six-week Mass. General program designed to help parents whose children were struggling with ADHD. He had read the material—and re-read it. He’d tried to connect with his daughter. But nothing was working. She was frustrated. He was frustrated. Their relationship felt broken. I...
by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers Credit: Shutterstock A good night’s sleep can solve all sorts of problems—but scientists have now discovered new evidence that sleeping well may make you less vulnerable to infection. Scientists at the University of Bergen recruited medical students working in doctors’ surgeries to hand out short questionnaires to patients, asking about...
by University of Bristol Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A link between depression and changes in counts of several types of immune cells in the blood has been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol’s MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. These findings, published in Molecular Psychiatry, suggest that changes to different components of our immune system—both the innate and...
by Impact Journals LLC Hypothetical interaction between telomere shortening and inflammation induced by IL-6 leading to early subjective depressive symptoms and cognitive complaints in relatively healthy elderly. Credit: 2023 Han et al. A new research paper titled “Relationship between telomere shortening and early subjective depressive symptoms and cognitive complaints in older adults” has been published in Aging. Telomere...
by University of South Australia Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or the leading medications. Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the review is the most...
Kelli Whitlock Burton November 07, 2022 An internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (iCBT) program specifically designed for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) significantly reduced depressive symptoms compared to usual treatment, new research shows. Participants in the randomized controlled trial who received iCBT either alone or in combination with weekly emails from therapists reported benefits that persisted up to a year after...
