If no treatment is helpful to fight depression, a brain implant may help. But it can take long duration to show the benefits of the implant. According to the researchers of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the vagus nerve...
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The researchers at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit may have found a link between Migraine and risk of depression. The report is published in the journal Neurology. They found that both, Migraine and Depression worsen each other.
The research team...
A new study has found something that is actually a very old concept. It says that listening to music is a great way to become stress free. It can reduce pain and change the state of depressive mind. so now just develop a habit to listen to music for an...
According to a Finnish study, depressed kids are more likely to become smokers in adult age. The Finnish study is first of its kind to establish a link between childhood depression and adult smoking. The study was presented at the American Psychiatric...
Huston based Cyberonics has reported about positive trial results regarding the development of an anti depression device. It is called as the VNS Therapy System. The device works by stimulating the vagus nerve. It delivers intermittent electrical pulses...
Does a heavy use of cell phones envisage depression? A survey confirms the statement that the students who use cell phones excessively may be under depression.
The survey was conducted on South Korean high schools students. It showed that the...
About eighteen million people in US go through stress, depression and anxiety every year. Countless of them are not able to detect the actual cause of this torment. You can just find here five such myths and the root causes for the rising strain,...
The Cleveland Clinic and Brown University researchers are studying a brain surgery to stop tremors in Parkinson's disease patients. It can also treat major depression with potentially serious risks.
The surgery, 'deep brain stimulation', uses...
The symptoms of depression vary from child to adult and from boys to girls. About three million youngsters experience the depression. Transition to middle schools and from middle to higher institutions creates difficult time for many of them. At the...
According to researchers at Florida State University, persons who happen to depressive and self-critical usually have been abused some time in their childhood. The Journal of Affective Disorders recently published these findings.
Verbally abused...
As the experts say about persons with mental sickness problem, usually it starts by the age of fifteen in about fifty percent of the patients. However, here is a news about child depression when the age was under fifteen. An eight year old boy hanged...
In its latest report, the mental health charity, 'Mind' claims that doctors in u.K. lack knowledge regarding how to treat postnatal depression. About seventy percent women were given anti depressant medication. About twenty percent were offered...
Almost seventy-five percent of patients do recover from depression. Lexapro have demonstrated itself very efficient in treating major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). It belongs to selective serotonin reuptake...
Chocolate is believed to have antidepressant qualities, yet it is not proved. The study, saying this, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. It has a review on all the research findings produced in past to link chocolate and mood.
According...
Medications and therapies sometimes don't provide complete relief to the people suffering from depression. Now the medical experts are looking for a small shock of electricity to the brain as helping tool to reduce depression.
This experimental...
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