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On Dwayne Johnson’s new NBC sitcom Young Rock Tuesday night, the topics of depression and mental health were discussed during a scene in which Johnson’s father was giving him some great advice. After tearing ligaments in his shoulder during football practice at the University of Miami, Johnson was benched for an entire season before it […]

OTTAWA, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Collaboration for Youth Mental Health (NCYMH) says bullying because of race, gender, orientation, someone’s family, someone’s past causes serious mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, low self esteem, isolation and ultimately post traumatic stress order and the Mental Health Charity, NCYMH, launches a Daily Say NO to bullying campaign on

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Families of nursing home residents have spent the past year appealing to policymakers that COVID-19 lockdowns were having a significantly negative effect on their loved ones’ health — and a new study put some sobering numbers on the physical impact of loneliness. The proportion of residents experiencing unexpected weight loss accelerated by 150% during the

CHATHAM, N.J., March 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has received the official minutes from a Type B pre-investigational new drug (IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its development plan for TNX-601

Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke candidly in an interview published Wednesday about her struggles with low-grade depression during the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges of 2020, encouraging Americans to speak more openly about their mental health.

No evidence from a Mendelian randomization analysis supported a genetic liability associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility among patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). These findings were published in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal. Study researchers sourced data from recent meta-analyses of MDD (total: n=807,553 individuals; cases: n=246,363) and MS (cases: n=47,429; control group participants: n=68,374),

HIV raises your risk of depression, which can cause feelings of persistent sadness, hopelessness, fatigue, and other symptoms. Your doctor may prescribe medication, talk therapy, or a combination of both to help you manage depression. You may also find it helpful to join a support group. Living with HIV increases the chance that a person

“You have to win the battle against depression”, “what counts is not surrendering” and “this is not a short road” are examples of conceptual metaphors typically used to describe experiences and issues associated with disorders like depression. Such expressions allude to abstract concepts but do so using familiar terms that enable better understanding of the

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTGN), a biopharmaceutical company committed to developing a new generation of medicines with the potential to go beyond the current standard of care for anxiety, depression and other central nervous system (CNS) disorders, announced today that data highlighting the proposed mechanism