Depression Blog Posts

From WikipediaBipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder (historically known as manic–depressive disorder or manic depression) is a psychiatric diagnosis for a mood disorder. Individuals with bipolar disorder experience episodes of a frenzied s...

Once again I'm stuck with another night of insomnia. I've been getting only about 2 hours of sleep every night, and haven't been feeling too well. I don't know if it's due to stress, but my anxiety... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs...

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 "Patients with treatment-resistant major depression saw dramatic improvement in their illness after treatment with ketamine, an anesthetic, according to the largest ketamine clinical trial to-date led by researchers from the Icahn School of Med...

Here I am, working on finishing Book #21, and thinking about all that is going on. The class I helped teach is graduating today. I can tell which of the male students were crushing on me by their invitations to graduation and Grad Night. I’ve h...

A cardinal symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD) is the disruption of circadian patterns. However, to date, there is no direct evidence of circadian clock dysregulation in the brains of patients who have MDD. Circadian rhythmicity of gene expres...

Suicide, strongly associated with psychiatric conditions, also correlates with environmental pollution, likely due to quality of life factors which impact mood disorders. This ecological study evaluated the effect of the presence of a coal-fired elec...

Hope everyone has a happy Mother’s Day! My mother is doing a little bit better at the hospital. If you’re not on my Facebook profile (and you should be as I don’t bite!), I was given some shitty news from my stepfather that turned o...

Today, you got the great headlines about Is there the couple in in in in between postpartum basin as well as the ‘love hormone’?. We goal you can suffer it. UNC researchers have been rising the 5-year investigate directed during bargain t...

 "Certain types of anti-depressants (mirtazipine and fluoxetine (prozac) have been linked to an increase in the risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine. Awareness of this l...

For nearly a decade, doctors have used implanted electronic stimulators to treat severe depression in people who don’t respond to standard antidepressant therapy. Now, preliminary brain scan studies conducted by researchers at Washington Univ...

My mother is in the hospital. I’ve known she was in there for a while, hence why I planted the Zinnias and picked her up a pink tote bag with a full bottle of Sunshine perfume. Today I was told she has 24-48 hours to live. I’ve already ma...

It’s here!  Episode 2.  If I sound too excited every time a new episode comes out, whether it’s for the hCG Diet Interviews, or the hCG Diet Community Video Project, it’s because I really am that excited- I feel like … Conti...

Late-life depression is associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and, most predominantly, vascular dementia, according to the results of a new meta-analysis published today in the British Journal of Psychia...

We're having so many conflicting issues lately, and they're hard to put into words.James asked us the other day if we were depressed. The only answer we had was that we weren't sure, and sometimes we can't even tell if whatever malaise we've been fee...

The standard of care for clinical depression has significant limitations: traditional drugs that focus on monoamine neurotransmitters can take several weeks to be effective, and many patients never respond to any form of treatment. Several clinical t...

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Some of you are probably wondering where I've been hiding the last little while. Well, I'm actually back to work. I went back over a week ago, and it's been keeping me quite busy. I'm still trying to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we...

Is your glass half-empty or half-full? How you answer this age-old question about positive thinking may reflect your outlook on life, your attitude toward yourself, and whether you're optimistic or pessimistic and it may even affect your health. H...

We have previously demonstrated that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces depressive-like behavior by activating indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase (IDO; O'Connor et al, 2009c). IDO degrades tryptophan along the kynurenine pathway. Using mass-spectrometry (LC-M...