Biomedical treatment is the commonly used model for the treatment of depression. The core of psychiatric treatment is pharmacotherapy and the core of contemporary psychological treatment is cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Mild-to-moderate depression...
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Scientists are about to conduct a study on a hallucinogenic chemical in mushrooms that would be worked as a possible new treatment for depression, anxiety and drug dependence.
The move follows an unusual research which showed that the compound,...
Depression may be linked to unnecessary thoughts that coils beyond control in older people. Late-onset depression first emerges at age 60 and causes poor executive functions. It leads further to poorer memory, bad thinking and reduced...
Resonance vibrations create impact on the mental state such as tears come in your eyes when you hear any sad songs. Through the same process, simple forms of mantra may change the emotional state of mind to normal state.
Bharat Thakur, the founder of...
Childhood depression may lead you to develop smoking habits in future. According to Dr. Solja Niemela of the University of Turku in Finland, one of the researchers, childhood depression may lead to the twenty per cent increased risk of being a...
A study listed out more than sixty-five complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) for controlling depression.
According to 2002 National Health Interview Survey, 81.7 per cent of adults with self-reported anxiety or depression used CAM last year...
Laziness with no depression may cause Parkinson's disease. Lindsey Kirsch-Darrow of the University of Florida, the author of the study, said that apathy and depression, both, need better treatment. The 'Neurology' published the report of the...
P2RX7 is a new gene that is responsible for major depressive disorders in humans. It has showed no association with seratonin. The American Journal of Medical Genetics has published the detail of the research.
Till recently, depression was said to be...
Amanda Geary, a nutritional therapist, has developed an idea meal for the British mental health charity 'Mind'. Geary is also the founder of the 'Food And Mood Project'.
This is a pasta with pesto and oily fish, avocado and mixed-seed salad. Fruits...
Even mild stress may increase the risk of depression again if a person had previous history of depression. There are number of cases where patients, eventually relapse after recovering from depression.
Zindel V. Segal of University of Toronto and...
Depression in teenagers may lead them to take sexual risks that pose the chance of pregnancy.
Students with symptoms of depression are at more risk to have sex. They do not want to use condoms under the sway of drugs or alcohol.
The journal...
Romantic breakup may trigger woman's brain. It may be seen in the MRI scans. Arif Najib, of the University of Tubingen Medical Center in Tubingen, Germany has come out with this research that unsettled heartache coils into true clinical depression for...
Clozapine is the most effectual drug for the treatment of psychotic depression. The researchers of the University of Rochester Medical Centre have concluded a study, which showed that clopazine, has some side effects. This may cause some long-standing...
Depression may lead to heart disease is a previous conception but here is a new one that heart surgery may lead to depression.
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a report that reveals the connection of cardiac surgery to...
If the depression patients have not recovered from two of the general treatments, they are at a little chance of successful treatment from a third medication. During the study, only sixteen percent of the patients showed the reduced symptoms of...
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