- Depression In Elderly: Women More Susceptible Than Men
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Older women are more prone to depression and are more likely to remain depressed than older men, according to ... than older men, indicating that women live longer with depression than men. This factor, along with the higher likelihood of women ... depressed, collectively contribute to the higher burden of depression among older women. Major depression affects about one to two ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2008 - 10:30am - 0 attachments
- Identified: Chemical Signature Of Manic Depression
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Manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, is a psychiatric condition characterized by alternating mania and depression, affecting about one in every hundred people worldwide. Although it ... work are poorly understood. People with manic depression have a distinct chemical signature in their brains, according to a ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2008 - 2:40pm - 0 attachments
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reduces Cognitive Deficits Of Sleep Deprivation
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... (rTMS), which has already shown promise in treating depression and other disorders," said Sarah H. Lisanby, M.D., senior author of ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2008 - 10:01am - 0 attachments
- Can Professors Say The Truth?
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Kaiping Peng, a friend of mine who is a professor at Berkeley, recently said to me that professors have an unusual place in our society: They are expected to tell the truth. Hardly anyone else is, he said. But what happens when they do? The most impres ...
Article - Seth Roberts - Dec 19 2007 - 3:25pm - 0 attachments
- MS Society Response To Robert Cook Sentencing
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... - Symptoms range from loss of sight and mobility, fatigue, depression and cognitive problems. There is no cure and few effective ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 1 2008 - 9:31am - 0 attachments
- VGLUT3 Protein Removal Causes Deafness And Seizures
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... by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and by several institutes of the National Institutes of Health, ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2008 - 4:29pm - 0 attachments
- Music Therapy Gets Some Respect As Depression Treatment
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... 121 million people world-wide are believed to suffer from depression. This can be seen in disturbed appetite, sleep patterns and overall ... Four of these reported greater reduction in symptoms of depression among people who had been given music therapy than those who had ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2008 - 7:28pm - 0 attachments
- Counter-Intuitive: Sleep Helps Us By Weakening Brain Connections, Say Researchers
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... to evaluate synaptic potentiation, or strengthening, and depression, or weakening, following sleeping and waking times. In one set of ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2008 - 4:01pm - 0 attachments
- New Study Shows Biologic Therapy Enbrel(R) (etanercept) Effective In Treating Psoriasis In Children And Adolescents
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... of obesity, type 2 diabetes, liver disease(5) and clinical depression(6). "Biologics have dramatically improved how we manage adult ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 16 2008 - 7:30pm - 0 attachments
- MS Society Responds To Health Select Committee Report
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... - Symptoms range from loss of sight and mobility, fatigue, depression and cognitive problems. There is no cure and few effective ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 9 2008 - 7:30pm - 0 attachments
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