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Anti-Depressants Could Increase Risk Of Fall Among Elderly

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Sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders might be behind increasing number

Giving Thanks

Beyond Postpartum (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

In the spirit of this often overlooked holiday, I wanted to share with you one of the things I am most grateful for this Thanksgiving... The people in this world who are brave enough to disregard stigma, embarrassment, humiliation, urging from their family and friends to do otherwise, and guilt, focusing on the potential to help someone else when they speak up about their depression or anxiety. Time...

Falls Among Elderly And Sedatives, Mood-Altering Drugs Linked: UBC Study

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, including sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders, according to a study led by a University of British Columbia expert in pharmaceutical outcomes research. The study, published Nov. 23 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, provides the latest quantitative evidence of...

• Some Drugs Linked to Falls Among Elderly - Ivanhoe Broadcast News

Sedatives, mood-altering drugs related to falls among elderly

Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, including sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders, according to a study led by a University of British Columbia expert in pharmaceutical outcomes research.

Sedatives, Mood-Altering Drugs Related To Falls Among Elderly: UBC Study

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, including sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders, according to a study led by a University of British Columbia expert in pharmaceutical outcomes research.The study, published Nov.

Sedatives, mood-altering drugs related to falls among elderly: UBC study

Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, including sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders, according to a study led by a University of British Columbia expert in pharmaceutical outcomes research.

Sedatives, mood-altering drugs related to falls among elderly: UBC study

Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, including sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders, according to a new study.

‘Despair’ gene linked to bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia

Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

A gene, touted as the “despair” gene, which earlier had no relation with mood disorders, has now been found to have a link with bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenic conditions, according to pharmacy scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). The researchers have identified antidepressant and anti-anxiety behaviours in tests of mice lacking the gene. Dr. [...]...

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PTSD After Childbirth (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

HEALTH CARE Published on Friday, November 20, 2009 Carondelet Health Network has received a $35,000 grant to help it identify and support mood disorders in pregnant and postpartum women. The grant was awarded through Project HOPE (Healthy Optimistic Perinatal Experience) and funded by the Child Abuse Prevention License Plate Program. “Mood disorders around childbirth impact several generations,”...

Telephone-Delivered Care For Treating Depression After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Appears To Improve Outcomes

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Patients who received telephone-delivered collaborative care for treatment of depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery reported greater improvement in measures of quality of life, physical functioning and mood than patients who received usual care, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA. The study is being released early online because of its presentation at an American...

Depression As Deadly As Smoking, But Anxiety May Be Good For You

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.

• New Study Says Depression Plays a Significant Role in Mortality - The Inquisitr
• Depression can be as deadly as smoking - Sify

'Despair' Gene Linked to Mood Disorders, Depression and Schizophrenia

Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

A gene, touted as the "despair" gene, which earlier had no relation with mood disorders, has now been found to have a li

Results Of 2009 Pfizer Index Show Unemployed Claim To Have Four Times Higher Rate Of Depression

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

The results of the 2009 Pfizer Health Index announced at the Royal College of Physicians Ireland reveal that the recently unemployed are four times more likely to claim to have depression than the general population. There is also evidence that the recession is leading to anxiety over money, is bad for self-esteem and is leading to relationship tension. The greatest impact of the recession is apparent...

Depression Patients More Apt To Receive Opioids For Chronic Pain

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

Chronic pain patients with a history of depression are three times more likely to receive long-term prescriptions for opioid medications like Vicodin compared to pain patients who do not suffer from depression, according to new research. The study, published in the November-December issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry, analyzed the medical records of tens of thousands of patients enrolled...

Why Do We Have Emotions?

The Essential Read (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

Mental illness often results from excess emotion. The overflow of emotion doesn't just drive mood disorders like Major Depression but fuels most psychological problems: phobias, anxiety, trauma, hoarding, obsessiveness, borderline personality disorder, and drug and alcohol abuse. Why (oh why) were we made to feel so much? It's as if our wiring (which, when given the options of emotion and reason,...

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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...

Biological Clocks Discovery Overturns Long-Held Theory

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

• Long-Held Theory About Biological Clocks Overturned By U-M Discovery - Medical News Today
• New pattern in our biological clock overturns long-held theory - Physorg