Ivy's PPD Blog (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Usually, I don’t post twice in one day, but I got all excited stumbling on a Parenting.com article that talks about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Perinatal Mood Disorders Inpatient Program, an inpatient psychiatric unit, that opened last fall. This kind of facility is the very first inpatient psychiatric unit of its kind in this country [...]
Parenting.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
An inpatient psychiatric unit specifically dedicated to women suffering perinatal (prenatal and postpartum) mood disorders opens and gets new moms the help they need.
Beyond Postpartum (Free subscription) | yesterday
So a couple of days ago- just a few short weeks since I discovered the PPAnxiety piece in Cookie , I opened my mailbox to see another feature story on perinatal mood disorders! This time, Parenting magazine does a great piece on postpartum depression in their November issue . It even mentions our local medical guru, Dr. Zachary Stowe . I love that the piece focuses on the treatment programs for women...
Perinatal Pro (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
S.P.A.R.K.S Center, developed by a core of community leaders passionate about preventing, detecting, and treating women who develop perinatal mood disorders, is making astounding inroads and setting high standards for community based PPD programs. Founded by Esther Koenigsburg to end suffering and offer accessible affordable services, SPARKS has rapidly acquired the reputation for expedient, compassionate...
Care For Women (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Statistics and medicine always some link between them in the Western medical philosophy, the numerical analysis paradoxically, making it easier to identify and generalize the patients. Stocks are divided by sex, age, and then still demography, all in an effort to find out which groups have a higher risk of developing that disease. U They are numbers used to analyze whether the remedy will be effective...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment. TMS therapy is the first FDA-approved, non-invasive antidepressant device-based treatment clinically proven for treatment of depression. Psychiatrists at Rush University Medical Center were among the first to test the technique...
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Treatment, not incarceration, should be the first option for veterans who commit nonviolent drug-related offenses, a group advocating alternatives to the nation’s “war on drugs” said Thursday in a new report.The Drug Policy Alliance report also called on government agencies to adopt overdose prevention programs and policies for vets who misuse substances or take prescription medicines,...
Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Researchers at Northwestern University say they've found evidence that the collectivist-individualist dimensions of culture coevolve with genetic risk for anxiety and mood disorders. Specifically, they argue that collectivist culture may evolve as an effective buffer in populations more genetically susceptible to these conditions. Here, we demonstrate for the first time a robust association between...
Dialectical Migrations (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
I was going to post a video on STRENGTHS BASED LEADERSHIP by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie but decided I wanted to watch the above video by TOUCHED WITH FIRE author Kay Redfield Jamison because I thought it was more interesting. She ties mood disorders with creativity. This connection is controversial. I tend to think there is a connection possibly, but I also think in the midst of an episode one can...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The odds triple for premature child delivery in pregnant women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medication, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Washington, University of Michigan and Michigan State University found that a combination of medication use and depression - either before or during pregnancy - was strongly linked to delivery before 35 weeks' gestation....
Nature (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
A recent paper in the Journal of Neuroscience has shown that inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDACs) — enzymes that affect the acetylation status of histones and regulate the remodelling of chromatin — have antidepressant actions.Although currently used antidepressants rapidly modulate monoaminergic systems in
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
New research shows people who feel depressed tend to recall having more physical symptoms than they actually experienced. The study indicates that depression -- not neuroticism -- is the cause of such over-reporting. Psychologist Jerry Suls, professor and collegiate fellow in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, attributes the findings to depressed individuals recalling experiences...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Pregnant women with significant symptoms of depression tend to have a stronger biological reaction to the seasonal flu vaccine than do women with lower depression levels, according to a new study. The finding provides an argument in favor of flu vaccination during pregnancy, researchers say, because it suggests that the immune systems in depressed pregnant women are not functioning typically.
France24 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Children and teenagers that took what specialists call "second generation" anti-psychotic medicine were at risk for obesity, according to a study in a US journal out Wednesday. Children and teens in the United States diagnosed with psychotic and bipolar disorders, as well as mood disorders, are often prescribed second-generation antipsychotic medications such as aripiprazole, olanzapine,...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Prozac works wonders for some depressed people, but not for others. In some cases, patients derive little benefit and at worst, it can lead to bizarre hallucinations and fits of rage. Researchers and doctors remain puzzled as to what causes the wide range of reaction to Prozac and similar antidepressants. The answer, Tel Aviv University researchers believe, can be found in a patient's genes.
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ferminstow | 10/22/2009
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backpainmedication | 10/11/2009
It’s surprising how clearly we can recall getting hurt. Years later, we can recount our first fall from a too-tempting tree, a bee-sting, the birth of a child. We can even tell humorous stories about those events because the pain was transient – it passed. But many illnesses and conditions can make pain a daily visitor, interfering with our jobs, family lives, even sleep. Even ancient people tried...
switbd | 10/10/2009
University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns a long-held theory about our internal clock. Understanding how the human biological clock works is an essential step toward correcting sleep problems like insomnia and jet lag. New insights about the
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