CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER Women with prolonged mental health problems up to three years after childbirth may be suffering from irregular immune system responses, according to new research by Cedars-Sinai investigators. The findings are published in the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. “We found that women who had clinically elevated symptoms of depression, anxiety, and/or post-traumatic stress disorder...
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Timing of Food Intake a Novel Strategy for Treating Mood Disorders?
Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW September 26, 2022 Shift workers who confine their eating to the daytime may experience fewer mood symptoms compared to those who eat both day and night, new research suggests. Investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, created a simulated nightwork schedule for 19 individuals in a laboratory setting. Participants...
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When severe infection causes long-term mood disorders: Researchers identify promising treatment path
by Pasteur Institute Section of a mouse brain observed using a fluorescence microscope. Credit: Institut Pasteur/Mariana Alonso and Pierre-Marie Lledo The brain is able to detect and regulate localized or systemic inflammation by using two communication pathways. The first, humoral, makes use of specific brain structures that enable circulating inflammatory mediators to enter the brain....
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Fatigue, mood disorders associated with post-COVID-19 syndrome
MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER, Minn. – Patients diagnosed with post-COVID-19 syndrome, also known as “PCS,” “COVID-19 long-haul syndrome” and “Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS COV-2,” experience symptoms such as mood disorders, fatigue and perceived cognitive impairment that can negatively affect returning to work and resuming normal activities, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The study reports on the...
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Researchers discover potential treatment for rare degenerative disease
by Yale University Yale pharmacology professor Barbara Ehrlich and her team have uncovered a mechanism driving a rare, lethal disease called Wolfram Syndrome and also a potential treatment. Their findings appear in the July 6 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Wolfram Syndrome—a progressive degenerative disease that affects about one in 500,000...
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Body clock linked to mood disorders
Disruption to the body’s internal clock may put people at increased risk of mood disorders, scientists say. A clock ticks in nearly every cell of the body. And they change how the tissues work in a daily rhythm. A Lancet Psychiatry study of 91,000 people found a disrupted body clock was linked with depression, bipolar disorder and...