by European Society of Cardiology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly one in four patients with heart failure is depressed or anxious, according to a study published during this week’s Heart Failure Awareness Days. Patients with heart failure were 20% more likely to develop these mental health issues during the five years after diagnosis compared to those...
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Low levels of serotonin in the brain are seen as a possible cause of depression and many antidepressants act by blocking a protein that transports serotonin away from the nerve cells. A brain imaging study at Karolinska Institutet now shows that the average level of the serotonin transporter increased...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF HEALTH) IMAGE: SHIXIE JIANG, MD, A THIRD-YEAR PSYCHIATRY RESIDENT AT THE USF HEALTH MORSANI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, WAS THE LEAD AUTHOR FOR A STUDY USING AN EMERGING FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING TECHNOLOGY, CALLED DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY, DURING REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION. ( rTMS). CREDIT: USF HEALTH/UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA TAMPA, Fla. (May...
by University College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Substance use and antisocial behavior are more likely to go hand-in-hand with poor mental health for generation Z teens compared to millennial adolescents growing up a decade earlier, finds a new UCL study. Researchers from the Center for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the UCL Social Research Institute and...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, March 15, 2021 — Beta-blockers treat various cardiovascular diseases and were not more likely to cause depression compared to other similar treatments, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal. While depression may occur during beta-blocker therapy, the research suggests beta-blockers are not the likely cause....
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO IMAGE: IN A STUDY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS CONDUCTED BEFORE AND DURING THE PANDEMIC, FINDINGS REVEALED THE AVERAGE STEPS OF SUBJECTS DECLINED FROM 10,000 TO 4,600 STEPS PER DAY AND RATES OF DEPRESSION INCREASED FROM 32% TO 61%. CREDIT: PHEELINGS MEDIA Exercise has long-been recommended as a cognitive-behavioral therapy for...
By studying health data from nearly half a million people, Professor Naomi Wray from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Queensland Brain Institute and Dr Yeda Wu from the IMB have provided clues to how the gut and brain work together. Dr Wu said the research supported a holistic approach to caring for patients with gastrointestinal diseases like peptic...
by University of Michigan Credit: CC0 Public Domain An irregular sleep schedule can increase a person’s risk of depression over the long term as much as getting fewer hours of sleep overall, or staying up late most nights, a new study suggests. Even when it comes to just their mood the next day, people whose waking...
by Lisa Marshall, University of Colorado at Boulder Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When it comes to developing drugs for mental illnesses, three confounding challenges exist: Men and women experience them differently, with things like depression and anxiety far more common in females; a drug that works for one person may not work for another; side effects...
by Frontiers Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study further highlighting a potential physiological cause of clinical depression could guide future treatment options for this serious mental health disorder. Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers show differences between the cellular composition of the brain in depressed adults who died by suicide and non-psychiatric individuals who died suddenly by other...
