The positive association between low IQ and depression
Date Posted: December 23, 2014
Categories: Depression, Emotional Intelligence
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Does your pace of life in the city impact your health?
Dec 15
Categories: Anxiety, Depression, Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Stress ...
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Around 350 million people worldwide have depression. Antidepressant medications are often prescribed to treat the condition, alongside talking therapies and lifestyle changes such as regular exercise.But a substantial proportion of people either ...
Dec 8
Categories: Depression
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Vitamin D deficiency is not just harmful to physical health - it also might impact mental health, according to a team of researchers that has found a link between seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, and a lack of sunlight.
Dec 3
Categories: Depression
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Staying positive can feel like an uphill battle. No wonder: when Philippe Verduyn and Saskia Lavrijsen asked over 200 high-school students (average age 17) to reminisce about the duration of their recent emotional experiences, they found that ...
Nov 29
Categories: Depression
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Group mindfulness treatment is as effective as individual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in patients with depression and anxiety, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and Region Skåne. This is the first randomised study to ...
Nov 29
Categories: Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Mindfulness
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Cognitive therapy, commonly known as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), aims to help people to identify and change negative, self-destructive thought patterns. And although it does not work for everyone with depression, data have been accumulating ...
Nov 17
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression
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If the extent of human suffering were used to decide which diseases deserve the most medical attention, then depression would be near the top of the list. More than 350 million people are affected by depression, making it one of the most common ...
Nov 15
Categories: Depression
GOWatch this interesting video on the evolution of our understanding of sadness and depression.
Oct 15
Categories: Depression
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When we fight the pain: judge it, try to push it away, avoid it, ignore it, it actually triggers other painful emotions, resulting in more emotional pain.We also never learn healthy ways to cope. Sitting with our emotions simply means allowing them, ...
Oct 1
Categories: Depression
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That feeling of disappointment is linked with a rather uncommon type of brain signaling, new research shows. It involves the finely tuned, simultaneous firing of two different neurotransmitters in the brain and it is the ratio of the two ...
Sep 30
Categories: Depression
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How one thinks about, and deals with, stressful events affect the level of stress and anxiety they feel. Crucially, there are three thinking and behavioural styles which tend to increase the chance someone would experience depression and anxiety: ...
Sep 25
Categories: Anxiety, Depression
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A recently published study in The Lancet estimated that 40 percent of Americans will develop diabetes in their lifetime - a trend which is largely due to obesity and inactivity. Since the 1990s, some public health professionals have turned their ...
Sep 20
Categories: Depression
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In recent weeks, the global conversation surrounding death by suicide has taken center stage, and now more than ever, we're acknowledging the effects of undiagnosed, untreated and mistreated depression on those rising numbers. Approximately two out ...
Sep 15
Categories: Adoption / Reunion Issues, Depression
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In the central nervous system, serotonergic transmission is critically regulated by serotonin reuptake through the serotonin transporter.
Sep 3
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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A new study in mice suggests that serotonin deficiency may not play as influential a role in depression as has previously been thought.
Sep 2
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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