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07/28/2010 04:00 AM
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Background Music Can Impair Performance, Cites New Study
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For decades research has shown that listening to music alleviates anxiety and depression, enhances mood, and can increase cognitive functioning, such as spatial awareness. However, until now, research has not addressed how we listen to music...
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07/27/2010 02:00 AM
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People With Severe Depression 'Find It Harder To Judge Facial Expressions'
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New research shows people with severe depression find it harder to interpret facial expressions than healthy people - particularly expressions of disgust. The study, published in the August issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, was carried out by researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand...
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07/25/2010 03:00 AM
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Could A Diagnostic Blood Test Be Created For Depression?
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Psychiatry, unlike many other areas of medicine, lacks diagnostic blood tests. Blood tests have been extremely useful in helping doctors make medical diagnoses and aiding them in treatment options for conditions and diseases in most medical fields...
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07/24/2010 02:00 AM
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Discovery Of Genetic Link To Children's Emotional Problems Precipitated By Bullying
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Bullying victimization is common among children of school age, although its consequences are often anything but benign. The recent death of a Massachusetts teen by suicide prompted state lawmakers to pass one of the most far-reaching anti-bullying laws within the U.S...
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07/23/2010 04:00 AM
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A Blood Test For Depression?
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Blood tests have been extremely important tools aiding doctors in making medical diagnoses and in guiding the treatment of many diseases. However, psychiatry is one area of medicine where there are few diagnostic blood tests. New scientific fields may someday generate blood tests that can be used for these purposes...
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07/22/2010 04:00 AM
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New Links Between Cholesterol And Depression In The Elderly
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Most people know that high cholesterol levels place them at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Prior research has shown that particular types of strokes contribute to one's risk for depression, and that abnormal blood lipid levels can increase the risk of depression in the elderly...
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07/22/2010 02:00 AM
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HCV Therapy Compromised When Depression Overlooked In Patients With Hepatitis C
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Researchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland (the NORDynamIC project group) have observed that depressive symptoms in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are commonly overlooked in routine clinical interviews, and that treatment-induced depression compromises the outcome of HCV therapy. A second U.S...
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07/21/2010 05:00 AM
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When You Feel Blue, Why Does Everything Look Gray ?
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Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue...
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07/20/2010 04:00 AM
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News From The American Academy Of Family Physicians, July/August 2010
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American Academy of Family Physicians - Coca-Cola Alliance, Conflict of Interest or Ethical Relationship? In an essay addressing the recent controversy over the American Academy of Family Physicians accepting a large corporate donation from The Coca-Cola Company to fund patient education materials on obesity prevention, family physician and AAFP member Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D...
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07/16/2010 04:00 AM
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The Neural Basis Of The Depressive Self
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Depression, known to be a condition with impaired psychosocial functioning that severely impacts the quality of life of patients and families, is actually defined with specific clinical symptoms such as sadness, difficulty to experience pleasure, sleep problems etc., present for at least two weeks...
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07/16/2010 03:00 AM
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Researchers Discover Novel Therapeutic For Chronic Pain
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Columbia scientists working to combat injury-related depression, substance abuse and suicide due to unremitting, persistent pain may have discovered a new way of treating that pain: a powerful analgesic dubbed N60 that leads to neither tolerance nor addiction. Pain is a perception in the brain triggered by signals sent along nerves in the peripheral nervous system...
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07/15/2010 02:00 AM
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Brooding Russians: Less Distressed Than Americans
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Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do. But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result...
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07/14/2010 05:00 AM
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Increased Risk Of Cardiovascular Problems In Depressed Men With Erectile Dysfunction
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A new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that the presence of depressive symptoms in men with erectile dysfunction constitutes a risk factor for a major cardiovascular event. Erectile dysfunction and depressive mood are often associated, and both are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death...
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07/14/2010 04:00 AM
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Two Years Later: DIAMOND Program Continues To Get Nearly 50% Of Patients With Depression Into Remission Within Six Months
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The DIAMOND program (Depression Improvement Across Minnesota, Offering a New Direction) continues to get at least five times as many patients into remission by six months than patients receiving typical primary care treatment, according to two-year findings reported by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement...
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07/13/2010 03:00 AM
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Apathy And Depression Predict Progression From Mild Cognitive Impairment To Dementia
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A new Mayo Clinic study found that apathy and depression significantly predict an individual's progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a disorder of the brain that affects nerve cells involved in thinking abilities, to dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia...
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07/13/2010 03:00 AM
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Sexual Abuse Survivors Have Increased Lifetime Diagnoses Of Psychiatric Disorders
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New research finds that a history of sexual abuse, regardless of the victim's gender or age when the abuse occurred, correlates strongly with a lifetime diagnosis of multiple psychiatric disorders...
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07/08/2010 05:00 AM
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African-American Women's Views On Depression Care Shaped By Racism
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African-American women's beliefs about depression and depression care are consistently and systematically influenced by racism, according to a new study conducted at Oregon Health & Science University. The results are published online in the American Journal of Public Health...
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07/08/2010 02:00 AM
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Emotional Flatness Can Be Mistaken For Depression In Alzheimer's Patients
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Watching a loved one struggle with Alzheimer's disease can be a painful process, but for the patient, the experience may be a muted one. Alzheimer's patients can appear withdrawn and apathetic, symptoms often attributed to memory problems or difficulty finding the words to communicate...
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07/07/2010 05:00 AM
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The Importance Of Therapist Competence In Depression Treatment
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While studies have shown that cognitive therapy is an effective treatment for depression, it has still not been clear the role therapists' training and expertise plays in making treatment successful. A new study finds that depressed patients show more symptom improvement when their therapists more competently follow the guidelines for delivering cognitive therapy...
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07/07/2010 04:00 AM
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Teva Introduces First Generic Effexor XR(R) Capsules In The United States; Awarded 180-Day Period Of Marketing Exclusivity
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq:TEVA) announced that it has commenced commercial launch of Venlafaxine HCl ER Capsules, the Company's generic version of Wyeth's antidepressant Effexor XR®. The brand product had annual sales of approximately $2.75 billion in the United States, based on IMS sales data...
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07/07/2010 03:00 AM
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Study Compares 'Competing To Win' And Competing To Excel' In Adolescents
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Is being competitive a good or a bad thing when you're a teenager? Well, a bit of both actually: competing to win is detrimental to girls' social relationships and was linked to higher levels of depression, whereas this was much less the case for boys. However, competing to excel is beneficial to the well-being of both genders. A new study1 by Dr...
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07/06/2010 02:00 PM
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Depression Appears To Be A Cause Of Dementia
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We know that people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia also suffer from depression. Some studies have shown that people with a history of major depression are twice as likely as others to eventually develop dementia. However, nobody really knows whether depression is a symptom of dementia or a potential cause of it...
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07/06/2010 03:00 AM
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Tennis Star Cliff Richey Speaks Out On Tennis, Depression And Christian Faith
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Tennis star Cliff Richey -- the number one ranked professional tennis player in the United States in 1970 who won 45 tournament titles over a 26-year career -- sees tennis having a "resurgence" in the next five years, rebounding from loss of television profile relative to the PGA golf tour. He attributed decline to lack of investment in promotion by the USTA...
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07/06/2010 03:00 AM
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Depression May Be A Risk Factor And Not An Early Sign Of Alzheimer's Disease
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Depression is commonly reported in people with Alzheimer's disease and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment, with several studies suggesting having a history of major depression may nearly double your risk of developing dementia later in life. However, it has been unclear if depression is a symptom of the disease or a potential cause of the disease...
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07/02/2010 04:00 AM
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Brain Atrophy Responsible For Depression In People Battling Multiple Sclerosis
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Adding to all that ails people managing their multiple sclerosis is depression for which MS sufferers have a lifetime risk as high as 50 percent. Yet despite its prevalence, the cause of this depression is not understood. It's not related to how severe one's MS is, and it can occur at any stage of the disease...
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