DEPRESSION IN THE NEWS
Gratitude: Letting Other People Know They Matter Benefits Us
Psychology Today takes a look at gratitude, one of the strengths of character most closely associated with life satisfaction.
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Depressed Mood Increases The Perception Of Pain
From Science Daily, this article takes a look at a new study led by University of Oxford researchers that examines the interaction between depression and pain.
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Treating Depression With Omega-3
his piece from Science Daily examines a new study led by Dr. Francis Lesperance of the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier at the Universite de Montreal (CRCHUM) which found that the use of Omega-3 supplements is effective among patients with major depression who do not have anxiety disorders.
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Being Depressed And Hostile Increases Mortality
Medical News Today takes a look at a new study conducted on a sample of 20,625 employees of the French national gas and electricity companies demonstrates that being depressed and hostile increases the mortality risk.
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Before You Quit Antidepressants...
From The New York Times, this article takes a look at a new study on antidepressants published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Some Common Mineral Supplements Don't Help Or Cause Harm
This piece from Lawyers Wellbeing Blog takes an in depth look at a number of mineral supplements.
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‘Bad Guy’ Actor ‘Joey Pants’ Takes On Mental Illness
The New York Times profiles actor Joe Pantliano's new book on depression and his No Kidding Me Too foundation.
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Head Case
This article from The New Yorker takes a look at the many aspects of depression and asks the question: "Can psychiatry be science?"
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From Anxiety To Depression And Back Again
Medical News Today takes a look at the back and forth tendencies of the medical world's focus from anxiety to depression and back again.
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New Drugs For Fighting Depression
From the Winston-Salem Journal, a panel of medical experts hosted by the Brain Awareness Council at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center say that a wave of new treatments and drugs are on the way to help fight depression.
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Manufacturing Depression
This article from The Observor, the account of how misery has been pathologised in the interests of drug companies is vital reading.
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Depression's Upside
This article from The New York Times Magazine takes a look at Charles Darwin's depression and explores the possible hidden benefits.
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The Depressing News About Antidepressants
From Newsweek, this article takes a look at the scientific research concerning the placebo effect factor.
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The Wrong Story About Depression
This article from The New York Times Magazine takes a look at the popular media mischaracterization of a recent of a recent study concerning the placebo effect.
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Attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings May Reduce Depression Symptoms
From Science Daily, a team of researchers has found that study participants who attended AA meetings more frequently had fewer symptoms of depression--along with less drinking--than did those with less AA participation
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Psychodynamic Therapy Brings Lasting Benefits
From Science Daily, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association, Psychodynamic psychotherapy is effective for a wide range of mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic and stress-related physical ailments.
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Treating Depression By Stimulating The Brain's Pleasure Center
This article from Science Daily takes a look at Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), a form of targeted electrical stimulation in the brain via implanted electrodes, is now undergoing careful testing to determine whether it could play a role in the treatment of patients who have not sufficiently improved during more traditional forms of treatment.
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Depression Saps Endurance Of The Brain's Reward Circuitry
From Medical News Today, a new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that depressed patients are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion.
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Tips To Fight Depression And Winter Blues
From The Dallas Morning News, a series of tips to help fight depression.
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Antidepressants May Change Personality Leading To Reduced Depression
From Medical News Today, researchers have reported the first placebo-controlled evidence that antidepressant medications can substantially change patients' personalities.
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Men Are From Mars
From Science Daily, a new study using functional magnetic images of men and women under stress shows neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to stressful situations.
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How To Find Mental Health Care Even When Money Is Tight
From The New York Times, this piece takes a look at options for receiving different forms of mental health care treatments even when money is an issue.
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How To Find Mental Health Care Even When Money Is Tight
From The New York Times, this piece takes a look at options for receiving different forms of mental health care treatments even when money is an issue.
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The Less Final Option
From the ABA Journal, Law News Now, a profile of one female attorney's struggle with depression.
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Kierkegaard on the Couch
An insightful opinion piece from The New York Times regarding spiritual and psychological disorders.
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Depression Stalks The Legal Profession
From The National Law Journal, takes a look at lawyer assistance programs across the country who are seeing the demand for their services grow.
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Researchers Say Healthy Diet Protects Against Depression In Middle Age
From Medical New Today, a new study led by researchers in the UK found that an overall healthy "whole food" diet protected middle aged people against depression
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For SAD Sufferers, Cognitive Behavior Better Than Light Therapy At Preventing Recurrence
A new study from University of Vermont psychologist Kelly Rohan suggests that cognitive behavior therapy is better at preventing recurrences of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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After Cancer, Ambushed By Depression
This first person narrative is from a man that beat an aggressive case of prostate cancer and is now confronted by depression.
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Antidepressant Use Nearly Doubles
WebMD.com takes a look at a new study from the New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University which found that the use of antidepressants is up and the use of Psychotherapy is down.
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Depression Gene? Maybe Not
A new study by The Journal of the American Medical Association dismisses the notion that a "depression gene" makes a person facing stressful life events more likely to develop depression.
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Brain Is A Co-Conspirator In A Vicious Stress Loop
This article from the New York Times takes a look at new research which suggests that the sensation of being highly stressed can rewire the brain in ways that promote its persistence.
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When Treating Depression, Entire Family Called On
From NPR.org, this piece discusses the role that family plays in the depression, addressing everything from how it effects other family members to the how family can help with treatment.
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Depression's Effect On Pleasure Is Real
Loss of interest in previosuly enjoyable activities is a common sign of depression and it's a neurological response that researchers can actually see in the brain. This article from HealthScout.com takes a look at this phenomenom.
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Doctors Don't Always Spot Depression
This article from Time magazine takes a look at a recent review of medical studies published in the journal Lancet. While looking at 41 studies involving more than 50,000 patients, it was found that medical practioners miss true cases of depression about half of the time and misdiagnose it in healthy people 19% of the time.
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The Mood Of Depressed People Improves with Weight Loss
From Medical News Today, new research from Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior found that after a 6 month behavioral weight loss program depressed patients lost 8% of their initial weight and reported significant improvements in their symptoms of depression.
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Processing In The Brain's Reward Pathways May Be Affected By Childhood Adversity
This piece from Medical News Today takes a look at new research that shows that childhood adversity is associated with diminished neural activity in brain regions implicated in the anticipation of possible rewards.
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Gene Theory For Depression Is Now Discredited
From Medical News Today, a study that attempted to replicate the "seminal" study that laid the foundation for psychiatry's "serotonin theory" of depression, claiming a genetic- serotonin impairment underlying depression, has been debunked by the data from 14 similar studies claiming a genetic underpinning to depression.
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New Family-Focused Model Of Depression Care Needed
From Medical News Today, health and social service professionals who care for adults with depression should not only tackle their clients' physical and mental health, but also detect and prevent possible spillover effects on their children, says a new report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine.
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Internet-Based Therapy Effective In Treating Depression
From Medical News Today, this article takes a look at a discovery that could lead to new treatment approaches for depression, researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have shown that internet-based therapy programs are as effective as face-to-face therapies in combating the illness.
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Down Times, Depression Taking Hold Among More Lawyers
The Wall Street Journal Blog discusses what seems to be an unusually strong and longer lasting unhappiness that seems to currently be taking hold of some lawyers
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Depression Among Lawyers: Chicken Or Egg?
Law.com Legal Blog Watch discusses whether the legal profession attracts individuals prone to depression or if law is more likely than other professions to cause depression.
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Depression Linked To Accumulation Of Visceral Fat
From Medical News Today, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have shown that depression is linked with the accumulation of visceral fat, the kind of fat packed between internal organs at the waistline, which has long been known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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Treating Depression When Medication Fails
From U.S. News and World Report, this article takes a look at treating depression as a complex, chronic disease that needs to be addressed through lifestyle changes.
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Depression Linked To Belly Fat
From UPI.com, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have linked the accumulation of bell to depression.
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Chronic Stress Genetically Alters Immune Sysytem
This piece from PsychCentral.com discusses a recent study conducted by Gregory Miller Ph.D., and published in Biological Psychiatry, that the white blood cells of those experiencing chronic stress change so they become less responsive to the anti-inflamation properties of cortisol.
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Protein Found Linking Stress And Depression
This piece from Science Daily takes a look at new information regarding stress leading to the production of a certain protein involved in major depression and susceptibility to suicidal thoughts.
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Meditation Provides Hope For People With Depression
This piece from Science Daily takes a look at a small scale study that suggests that people with depression may benefit from a new form of therapy that combines ancient forms of meditation with modern cognitive behaviour therapy.
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Depressed People Have Trouble Learning 'Good Things In Life'
From Medical News Today, this piece takes a look at a new study which suggests that people with depression may have a problem appreciating positive life experiences.
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Recession Depression Escalation
The Priory Hayes Grove medical group warns of an increase in depressive episodes during these difficult economic times according to this piece from Medical News Today.
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Depression Increases Risk For Heart Disease
Medical News Today profiles research done by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis that suggests that depression increases the risk for heart disease more than genetics and environment.
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After Abuse, changes In The Brain
From the New York Times, this article takes a look at a study from Nature Neuroscience in which researchers from Montreal found changes in the brains of people who had been abused at a young age which made them more biologically sensitive to stress.
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New Treatment Approach Needed For Management Of Depression With Bipolar Disorder
This article from Science Daily takes a look at a study published by The American Journal of Psychiatry in which a team of researchers make recommendations for treating bipolar disorder.
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Stress Related Disroders Affect Brain's Processing Of Memory
This piece from Science Daily explaines that researchers using functional MRI have determined that circuitry in the area of the brain responsible for processing memory is dysfunctional in patients suffering from stress related psychiatric disorders.
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After Abuse, changes In The Brain
From the New York Times, this article takes a look at a study from Nature Neuroscience in which researchers from Montreal found changes in the brains of people who had been abused at a young age which made them more biologically sensitive to stress.
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Protein Found Linking Stress And Depression
This piece from Science Daily takes a look at new information regarding stress leading to the production of a certain protein involved in major depression and susceptibility to suicidal thoughts.
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New Treatment Approach Needed For Management Of Depression With Bipolar Disorder
This article from Science Daily takes a look at a study published by The American Journal of Psychiatry in which a team of researchers make recommendations for treating bipolar disorder.
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Stress Related Disroders Affect Brain's Processing Of Memory
This piece from Science Daily explaines that researchers using functional MRI have determined that circuitry in the area of the brain responsible for processing memory is dysfunctional in patients suffering from stress related psychiatric disorders.
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Improving Mood And Serious Mental Illness With Physcial Activity
This article from Medical New Today takes a look at a study from Indiana Uniersity which suggests that even meager levels of physcial activity can improve the modds of people with serious mental illness.
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Stimulating Recovery From Chronic Stress Disorders
This article from Science Daily takes a look at a novel approach to stimulating recovery from chronic stress disorders by using the body's fight or flight mechanism.
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Neuroscientists Find That Men And Women Respond Differently To Stress
This piece from Medical News Today takes a look at new research that finds that the male brain reacts to stress by activating the fight or flight response while the female brain reacts by activating the limbic response which is associated with emotional responses.
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Why Are Some People More Susceptible To Depression Than Others?
This piece from Science Daily takes a look new research which explores the role of epigenetics in the susceptibility to depression.
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Heart And Blood Vessels Damaged By Depression, Anxiety
This article from Medical News Today takes a look at new research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that shows that a large protion of the increased risk of heart attack associated with depression is because depression can lead to poor health habits like smoking and inactivity.
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Depression Treatment Study
This piece from Science Daily profiles a study from the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology that suggests that Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy could be as effective as anti-depressant medication.
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Feeling Down During The Holidays Can Be Tough
From WebMD, this story gives a series of specific tips fro dealing wit depression during the holiday season.
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Lack Of Exercise Explains Depression-Heart Link
This article from The New York Times takes a look at the medical link between depression and heart attacks.
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Learning How Not To be Afraid
This article from Science Daily profiles a study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that conducted experiments in which they conditioned mice to feel safe in stressful situations. Their experiments showed that the mice developed a conditioned inhibition of fear, which Kandel calls "learned safety."
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Depression Patients’ Brain Circuitry Makes Them Vulnerable to Relapse
National Institute of Mental Health researchers have produced direct evidence that people prone to depression have abnormal mood-regulating brain circuitry. This makes them vulnerable to relapse when levels of certain key brain chemical messengers plummet.
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Millisecond Brain Signals Predict Response To Fast-Acting Antidepressant
This piece from the National Institute of Mental Health highlights the discovery of an electromagnetic biomarker that could minimize trial-and-error prescribing.
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Antidepressants Need New Nerve Cells To Be Effective
From Science Daily, this piece profiles a study by researchers at UT Soutwestern Medical Center that finds that the brains of mice must create new nerve cells in order for antidepressants and exercise to reduce depression-like behavior.
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Brain Study Could Lead To New Understanding Of Depression
From Medical News Today, this article takes a look at a study from the National Institute of Neurological Dosorders and Stroke that was published in the journal, Cerebral Cortex that identifies the area of the brain associated with proneness to guilt. Other studies have established that this area of the brain is overactive on those suffering from depression.
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Those Suffering From Physical Symptoms Of Depression Are At Greater Risk Of Heart Disease
This piece from myheartcentral.com takes a look at a groundbreaking study from Assistant Professor Jesse C. Stewart at the Department of Psychology at Indiana University-Purdue University that links the phyical symptoms of depression such as loss of appetite, sleep problems and fatigue can be at greater risk for heart disease.
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Hunger Hormone May Have Antidepressant Effect
This artilce from Science Daily takes a look at new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center that suggests that stress causes the release of the hunger hormone ghrelin which causes stress and anxiety levels to reduce but also increases hunger.
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Huffinton Post Features LWD Guest Article By Bruce E. Levine
Bruce E. Levine's featured LWD article, Depressed Lawyers: A Little Help For My Friends, also appears on the Huffington Post.
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Study Finds Changes To DNA In Suicides And Those With Major Depression
A new study from research funded by Canadian Institutes of Health has found that brain tissue of those who died of suicide has altered DNA in the brain cells.
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Ending Moderate Drinking Tied To Depression
This article from Science Daily takes a look at a new study from the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at chapel Hill. The study concludes that stopping drinking a moderate amount of alcohol may cause depression and stunt the brain's ability to create new neurons.
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Smiling Through
Former Talk Show Host Dick Cavett penned this opinion piece for the New York Times. In it he discusses his personal bout with depression and his time in treatment. Now he gives talks to caregivers and people in treatment for depression.
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Inflamation, Depression and Antidepressant Response
This short piece from sciencedaily.com takes a look at the clinical parallels between depressive symptoms and the symptoms of certain inflamatory disorders.
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Depression A Dark Secret For Men From msnbc.com, this article discusses the tendency for men to deal with depression through denial and the blaming of others. Read the story
Burning Incense May Moderate Depression This article from psychcentral.com discusses a new study from The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal which found that burning frankincense activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain that alleviate anxiety and depression. Read the storyAttorney Interrupted Law.com: Small Firm Business takes a look at the tragic story of Hermes Villarreal, a South Texas attorney who took his own life after a bout with acute depression Read the story
Florida Lawyers Assistance
This article from the the Florida Bar News describes how Florida Lawyers Assistance Inc., an organization known for assisting attorneys with substance problems, is increasingly lending help to attorneys with mental health illness. Read the story
Workplace Depression is Undertreated
From medicalnewstoday.com, the Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine recently published a series of new studies that suggest workplace depression may be a much bigger problem - with more serious social and economic impacts - than employers realize. Read the story
Depression DiversityThis piece from Science Daily takes a look at a new study from the University of Michigan Depression Center that discusses the numerous biological differences in those with depression. Read the story
High Rates Of Physical Illness
This article from medicalnewstoday.com takes a look at a new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry that found that people with recurrent depression have high rates of common physical illnesses. Read the story
Coming Of Age On Antidepressants
From the New York Times, this article takes poses an interesting question about the use of strong psychotropic drugs during adolescence. Read the story
Pharmaceutical Options For Depression
In this piece from psychcentral.com, Rick Nauert Ph.D. discusses the different types of depression medications including their uses and effectiveness. Read the storyThe Conflict Of Reward In Depression
This article from sciencedaily.com explores the brains reaction to rewarding experiences and how it differes in the minds of the depressed and non-depressed. Read the story
Depression, Anxiety Are Linked to Obesity, Unhealthy Habits
This artricle from Medicalnewstoday.com explores the link between depression and obesity. Read the story
Unsubstantiated Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression Perpetuated by Media
This article from Medicalnewstoday.com addresses a new study which found that the theory that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance is often presented by the media even though there is little scientific evidence to support it. Read the story
Are Antidepressants Faith-Based Treatment?
From Alternet.org, this piece explores the effectiveness of antidepressants as well as the factors involved in how that information is passed along to the public. Read the story
Why Serotonin Can Cause Depression And Anxiety
This artricle from Medicalnewstoday.com explores the various roles played by serotonin in regulating mood and personality. Read the story
Middle-Age Blahs Are Universal
From psychcentral.com, a new study suggests that depression and unhappiness are more common during the middle-age for all cultures. Read the story
Gene Protects From Depression After Childhood Abuse
From psychcentral.com, a new research study suggests some forms of a gene that controls the body's response to stress hormones appear to protect adults who were abused in childhood from depression. Read the story
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