Depression Increases BY Ages
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May 05, 2009
Older adults who are depressed are more likely to stay depressed as they age, especially those who rate themselves as sick, a study presented here at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting found...[read article]
Depression Prevalent Even After Birth Resulting From Assisted Reproduction
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May 02, 2009
Women who conceive with assisted reproductive technology (ART) have a higher incidence of depression following delivery compared with women who spontaneously conceive.Those are the results of a longitudinal study of 87 subjects, 48 with ART pregnancies and 39 who conceived spontaneously. Sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics were similar in the two groups...[read article]
Depression After ICU Stay May Be Multifactorial
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April 29 , 2009
Depression is common after an ICU stay and a number of factors including use of benzodiazepines may contribute to the symptoms, researchers report in an April 10th on-line paper in Critical Care Medicine...[read article]
Vilazodone Eases Major Depressive Disorder Quickly, Effectively
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April 23 , 2009
Vilazodone, the first of a new class of antidepressants known as indolalkylamines, has been shown in a phase III trial to be effective and well tolerated for the treatment of major depressive disorder, with a rapid onset of effect...[read article]
Benzodiazepines Linked to Post-ICU Depression
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April 23 , 2009
Intensive care unit (ICU) patients with adult respiratory-distress syndrome (ARDS) and other forms of acute lung injury (ALI) may need sedation to endure the stress of mechanical ventilation, but the benzodiazepine doses often used in this situation may be setting patients up for clinical depression after discharge...[read article]
Depression May Respond to Olanzapine-Fluoxetine Combination
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April 23 , 2009
An analysis of five clinical trials of treatment-resistant depression indicates that olanzapine and fluoxetine in combination (OFC) are more effective than either agent alone,As reported in the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Dr. Madhukar H. Trivedi of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and colleagues studied data on three...[read article]
Depression Common in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes
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April 22 , 2009
The prevalence of depression and use of antidepressant medication is approximately twice as high among patients with type 1 diabetes as in controls without diabetes, according to findings published in the April issue of Diabetes Care....[read article]
Antidepressants May Contribute to Suicides in Elderly People
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April 22 , 2009
The results of a postmortem study indicate that elderly people who commit suicide usually do not have antidepressant medications in their systems at the time of death.According to the report, antidepressants were found in less than one-in-four victims overall, and in even fewer of those in the oldest age group, 85 years and older....[read article]
Depression Linked to Heart Failure
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April 19 , 2009
Depression is linked to increased incidence of heart failure (HF) after diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), regardless of antidepressant medication (ADM) treatment, according to the results of a cohort study reported in the April 21 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology....[read article]
Symbyax And Edluar now Aproved By FDA
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April 02 , 2009
FDA Approved Fluoxetine HCl/Olanzapine (Symbyax)as therapy for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and Faster-Acting Sublingual Formulation of Zolpidem Tartrate (Edluar) Approved for Insomnia....[read article]
Varenicline Side Effects No Worse in Patients With a History of Depression
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MARCH 20 , 2009
Subjects with a history of depression taking varenicline are more likely than those without a history of prior depression to report common side effects associated with the drug. However, these patients are not more likely to experience worsening mood, more intense neuropsychiatric symptoms, or less success quitting smoking....[read article]
Stepped-Care Prevention of Depression and Anxiety May Be Helpful in Elderly
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MARCH 18 , 2009
Stepped-care prevention of depression and anxiety may be helpful in elderly individuals, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial reported in the March issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry....[read article]
Causal Relationship Between Alcohol and Depression May Start with Alcohol Abus
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MARCH 12 , 2009
An association between alcohol abuse and depression has long been recognized, and 1 popular theory was that depressed individuals tend to self-medicate with alcohol. However, researchers are now drawing quite a different conclusion; that it is more likely that alcohol abuse leads to depression than the other way around...[read article]
Depression and Antidepressant Use Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death
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MARCH 10 , 2009
Higher levels of symptom distress in women with breast cancer predict higher levels of anxiety and depression, which often coexist in these patients, according to a study presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relationships ...[read article]
Meaning and Depression in Breast Cancer
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FEB 25, 2009
Higher levels of symptom distress in women with breast cancer predict higher levels of anxiety and depression, which often coexist in these patients, according to a study presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relationships ...[read article]
Susceptibility to PTSD, Anxiety, Depression Hereditary
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FEB 24, 2009
The genetic makeup of some individuals makes them substantially more vulnerable than others to develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression.A unique study that tracked individuals from 12 multigenerational families exposed to a massive ...[read article]
Lack of Exercise and Other Bad Behaviors Explain the Link Between Depression and CVD
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FEB 23, 2009
Researchers who set out to pick apart the bonds that link depression and cardiovascular disease (CVD) say that health behaviors and not complex biological processes largely account for the increased risk of cardiac events in people with depression [1]. Physical inactivity, in particular, likely accounts for the bulk of the risk ...[read article]
Newer Antidepressives Help Patients' Driving Performance
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FEB 23, 2009
Partially remitted depressed inpatients treated with the newer antidepressants reboxetine or mirtazapine show better driving simulator performance than they do prior to therapy, according to German researchers ...[read article]
Depression in Centenarians Often Unrecognized
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FEB 21, 2009
Although people over 100 years of age appear to be as prone to depression as younger individuals, only about a third of those affected are diagnosed, investigators reported today at the annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in National Harbor, Maryland....[read article]
Tricyclic Superior to SSRI in Treatment of Depression in Parkinson's Disease
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FEB 20, 2009
Results of a randomized trial show that the tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) nortriptyline was efficacious in treating depression in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients vs placebo, while paroxetine controlled release (CR), a selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), was not. ...[read article]
Initial Treatment With Placebo Not Harmful to Teens Participating in Antidepressant Trials
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FEB 20, 2009
Initial treatment with placebo in teens participating in antidepressant trials is not harmful, and in fact, adolescents who receive placebo prior to active treatment fare as well as those who receive immediate active treatment, a new study suggests. ...[read article]
SSRI Antidepressant Treatment May Reduce Male Fertility
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FEB 20, 2009
Treatment with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) paroxetine (Paxil) increases sperm DNA fragmentation, according to research presented today at the 64th annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in San Francisco. ...[read article]
Bereavement-Related Depression Identical to Other Depression Types
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FEB 19, 2009
Major depression related to bereavement is essentially identical to major depression brought on by other stressful life events, suggesting that it should not be excluded from standard depression diagnoses, new research suggests..[read article]
Sertraline Seen as Good First-Line Therapy for Acute Major Depression in Adults
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FEB 18, 2009
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) sertraline may be a candidate as the initial antidepressant of choice for adults with major depression, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry...[read article]
Case Histories of Severe Depression With Imatinib and Dasatinib
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FEB 15, 2009
Seven patients receiving the tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) imatinib (Gleevec, Novartis) or dasatinib (Sprycel, Bristol-Myers Squibb) have experienced severe and treatment-related depression, according to clinicians from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, whose letter on the subject was published in the January 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology....[read article]
Non-Invasive Treatment For Depression
Dr. Phil Janicak, a professor of psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center, was the principal investigator for the clinical trials of TMS..
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FEB 13, 2009
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now an entirely new treatment option for patients suffering from depression. Dr. Phil Janicak, a professor of psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center, was the principal investigator for the clinical trials of TMS..
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