Depression

Certain characteristics in patients with cancer, such as symptoms of depression and anxiety, were independently associated with chemotherapy-induced nausea (CIN), according to results of a longitudinal study recently presented at a medical conference. Younger age, an income higher than $30,000, higher comorbidity burden, as well as a greater likelihood of stomach disease and blood disorders […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Psychiatric nurse practitioner, Dr. Cristi Bundukamara, is changing the landscape for mental health care by launching her own proprietary mobile app and online course programs featuring a unique care model, The Mentally STRONG Method, as the foundation. With May being Mental Health Awareness Month and June being

HOUSTON – (May 19, 2021) – A new study from researchers at Rice University has found that bodily inflammation after the death of a spouse can predict future depression. “Inflammation and future depressive symptoms among recently bereaved spouses” will appear in the June 2021 edition of the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. Lead author Lydia Wu, a Rice

Suzy Ishkontana hardly speaks or eats. It’s been two days since the 7-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of what was once her family’s home, destroyed amid a barrage of Israeli airstrikes. She spent hours buried in the wreckage as her siblings and mother died around her. Children are being subjected to extensive

Anxiety, depression, stress. These represent everyday real-life struggles for women at child-bearing age and beyond. As a society, everyone expects happiness when bringing a newborn into the world, but the reality for many women is far from that. That is why it is so important to talk about maternal mental health during the perinatal and

GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP)– A recent annual survey of Franklin County and North Quabbin’s 8th, 10th, and 12th graders is showing students reporting symptoms of depression has increased ten percent since 2019. The Communities that Care Coalition has been conducting the survey for nearly two decades. The Coalition works with local schools to collect and provide

The World Health Organization statistics reveal that about 300 million people of the global population have depression. Credit: ryan melaugh. Canadian biotech Cybin has received approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of the West Indies Hospital in Jamaica for a Phase II trial of its psilocybin formulation, CYB001, to treat major

Daughter’s final messages to Clay mom inspires suicide prevention, depression awareness  CNYcentral.com

The treatment is called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and involves the use of magnetics, according to Dr. David Kent. BOISE, Idaho — A Meridian psychiatrist has begun experimenting with an alternative treatment for depression. The treatment is essentially an “exercise” the brain does until it is healthy again. Conventional treatment for depression is usually one

Intravenous ketamine may be safe and effective in adolescents with treatment-resistant depression, according to a small study in the American Journal of Psychiatry. As previously demonstrated in adults, a single ketamine infusion dramatically reduced depressive symptoms in adolescents after 24 hours relative to those who received a control infusion. These improvements lasted for at least