Depression

In the winter of 1982, a young red-headed boy went to his parent’s basement. He was in the depths of depression, full of self-loathing, fear, and despair when he accessed his father’s unlocked gun cabinet. After what seemed like an eternity, he put back the weapon in which he sought escape. Later that night, as […]

New York nurses caring for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic experienced anxiety, depression, and illness–but steps their hospitals took to protect them and support from their coworkers helped buffer against the stressful conditions, according to a study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. “A critical part of

Does More Anxiety & Depression = More Consumers & Revenue?  | OPEN MINDS By Monica E. Oss The fact that the pandemic has increased the prevalence of mental health disorders and substance abuse has been widely reported. Between February and July 2020, nearly a quarter of consumers worldwide experienced depression and about

Two years af­ter mid-stage re­sults first sent their stock fly­ing, Ax­some an­nounced the FDA has ac­cept­ed their ap­pli­ca­tion for a new de­pres­sion drug and promised to give it a has­tened look. The agency has giv­en pri­or­i­ty re­view to Ax­some’s lead drug, AXS-05, for the treat­ment of ma­jor de­pres­sive dis­or­der. The agency said they will give

Patients experiencing a major depressive episode (MDE) may experience reduced visual cortical contrast suppression while retinal brightness induction remains intact, according to a study published in the Journal of Psychiatry & Neurology. The researchers assessed the visual perception of 111 patients recruited from Helsinki City psychiatric outpatient facilities with MDE (46 with unipolar MDD, 38

A new meta-analysis representing 11 countries found nearly 25% of psychiatric hospital admissions of children and adolescents were involuntary, with Black children seeing a nearly three-times higher odds of involuntary hospitalization than white children. (The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health) Despite using different PTSD checklist instruments, DSM-4 and DSM-5 criteria were largely agreeable in diagnosing

Kelsey Harriman grew up in a home without alcohol. She had her first drink at age 19 when she moved in with her boyfriend and his parents. It was a small event that overtook her life. “They asked me to drink, and I didn’t think much of it. But it triggered a demon inside me.

MARSHALL COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) Depression is more than just feeling sad and lying on the couch. Nurse Practitioner Kayla Eberhart with WVU Reynolds Outpatient Psychiatry in Glen Dale says friends and relatives tell the depressed person to “snap out of it, and stop being so sad.” She says some people will tell them their problems

Introduction Worldwide, strokes are the second leading cause of death, after cardiovascular diseases.1 In France, strokes are the first leading cause of acquired disability in adults,2 leading to more quality of life issues when compared to other vascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction.3 Post-stroke depression (PSD) is affecting one third of stroke survivors, with negative

U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said, as Americans continued their march to the South and West and one-time engines of growth, New York and California, lost political influence. Altogether, the U.S. population rose to 331,449,281 last year, the Census Bureau said Monday, a 7.4%