Cognitive tasks show that these patients have difficulty with the ability to plan ahead, display self-control, sustain focus despite distractions, and suppress inappropriate behavior. Imaging showed decreased activity in two brain regions responsible for those tasks. Because depression has traditionally been defined as a mood disorder, doctors commonly prescribe antidepressants that target serotonin (known as selective serotonin...
Tag: <span>Depression</span>
Post
Poor sense of smell linked to increased risk of depression in older adults
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE In a study that followed more than 2,000 community-dwelling older adults over eight years, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have significant new evidence of a link between decreased sense of smell and risk of developing late-life depression. Their findings, published June 26 in Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, do not demonstrate that loss...
Post
Brain imaging-based biomarker of depression identified
by Elsevier Brain imaging maps and a functional deviation map of the two depression subtypes across brain regions. Credit: Biological Psychiatry Major depressive disorder (MDD) is not only among the most common mental illnesses, affecting more than 8% of Americans, but it is also extremely variable from one person to another. Researchers have recently begun making strides toward understanding...
Post
7 Ways That Exercise Can Help With Depression
Written by Tracy Asamoah, MD | Reviewed by Sanjai Sinha, MD Updated on January 30, 2023 Key takeaways: Exercise can be an effective complementary treatment for mild to moderate depression. Regular exercise offers mental health benefits –– like reducing stress and improving mood –– that may ease depression symptoms. Your fitness routine should not replace...
Post
We May Finally Know Why Magnetic Stimulation on The Brain Can Ease Depression
HEALTH 28 May 2023 By DAVID NIELD (Flavio Coelho/Moment/Getty Images) Stimulating the brain with magnetic fields can help relieve the symptoms of depression in some people, but scientists haven’t been sure precisely why it works. A new study offers some insight: The process reverses brain signals going in the wrong direction. These neural streams of activity going in the...
Post
Disrupted gut microbiome involved in depression, finds research
by Dr. André Schmidt and Professor Claudio De Simone, Medical Xpress Uncinate fasciculus (UF) tract DTI tractography. (A) Virtual dissection of UF. Green lines at the coronal slice represents the ‘AND’ gates for the virtual dissection. Virtually dissected left and right UF shown in sagittal view. (B) Fractional anisotropy (FA) of UF. The factorial ANOVA...
Post
Casual cannabis use by adolescents found to raise risk of depression, suicidality
by Columbia University Irving Medical Center Mean Number of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition, Text Revision)13 Cannabis Use Disorder Criteria Met by Degree of Adolescent Cannabis Use. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2023). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.11294 A Columbia University study has found that teens who use cannabis recreationally are two to four times as likely to...
Post
This Utah biotech company has implanted brain chips in 50 people — and its owner wants to cure blindness, paralysis and DEPRESSION
By ROB WAUGH TECH CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 07:34 EDT, 30 April 2023 | UPDATED: 07:36 EDT, 30 April 2023 It sounds like the stuff of science fiction – but a company in Utah has already implanted brain chips in dozens of patients. Blackrock Neurotech, based in Salt Lake City, has the grand ambition of curing physical paralysis, blindness, deafness and depression. The...
Post
Depression found to affect the care and survival of patients with breast cancer
by Wiley Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a recent study, having depression before or after a breast cancer diagnosis was associated with a lower likelihood of survival. The findings are published in the journal Cancer. For the study, Bin Huang, DrPH, of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, and his colleagues analyzed data from the Kentucky Cancer Registry...
Post
Researchers find a source of depression linked to a single enzyme
by Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Credit: Cell Metabolism (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.02.017 Researchers at Wuhan University in China have found a previously unknown mechanism linking gut bacteria, estradiol, and depression in women. The study, “Gut-microbiome-expressed 3b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase degrades estradiol and is linked to depression in premenopausal females,” is published in the journal Cell Metabolism. Previous research has determined...