major depressive disorder

Treating Depression Without Drugs

  Treating Depression Without Drugs – BlazerCast for June 29, 2010: UAB is the first medical provider in the state to offer a new, cutting-edge treatment for depression. Repetitive Transcranial M…   Treating depression and anxiety can aid pain relief Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one approach. It is an established treatment for anxiety and depression. CBT is based on the idea that thoughts, feelings, and sensations are all related. Patients who learn coping skills from a CBT therapist can … Read more on Chicago Tribune (blog) Read more... ...

Recognizing the Signs of Depression

Recognizing the Signs of Depression Wyoming had the top suicide rate in the nation last year, and numbers earlier this year from the Wyoming Department of Health indicated that could be the story this year, too. As National Suicide Prevention Week wraps up, awareness and education will … Read more on Sheridan Media (press release) Too much sitting leads to feelings of depression: study A new study finds a link between depression and sitting. If you feel down in the dumps after a long day of sitting at your desk, a new study confirms it: the longer a person sits, the more likely he or she is to have symptoms of depression, researchers … Read more on New York Daily News Read more... ...

Depression Treatment Centers

  Depression Treatment Centers – http://www.aplaceofhope.com/intensedepression.html For more details about depression treatment centers visit the above website.   VA's opiate overload feeds veterans' addictions, overdose deaths In 2009, new VA regulations required clinicians to follow an “integrated approach” to helping veterans in pain, including a stronger focus on treating the root causes of pain rather than using powerful narcotics to reduce symptoms. … Last year … Read more on Center For Investigative Reporting Read more... ...

Varenicline Helps Smokers With Stably Treated Depression

...  helps smokers with stably treated depression Varenicline successfully promoted durable smoking cessation without exacerbating depression or anxiety in a randomized, phase IV, industry-funded study of patients with stably treated major depressive disorder. Smoking cessation, defined as carbon … Read more on The Oncology Report Doc Talk: Depression can be treated with medication, therapy Approximately 15 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with a major depressive disorder in their lifetime, which means that they will have at least one major depressive episode lasting for two or more weeks. Depression is more than having a case of … Read more on Kansas.com Read ...

Chantix Doesn't Make Depression Worse

...  researchers looked at smoking abstinence and changes in mood and anxiety in 525 adult smokers ages 18 to 75 with stably treated or past major depressive disorders and no current cardiovascular events. They smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day and … Read more on MedPage Today Korea Approves NeuroStar TMS for Treating Depression MALVERN, PA, August 14, 2013 – Neuronetics, Inc., the established market leader in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation technology for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder, announced today that the South Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety … Read more on WebWire (press release) Read ...

Mental-Health Coverage to Get a Big Boost Under Obamacare

...  coverage to get a big boost under Obamacare But less than 20 percent of children and adolescents with mental-health problems receive the treatment they need. ?One in 20 Americans lived with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression. We are reminded of … Read more on Washington Post Major Depressive Disorder: Long-Term Course, Treatment, and Complications Conversion to bipolar disorder is another complicating variable in long-term treatment of MDD. Nearly 20 percent of adults first diagnosed with MDD will develop bipolar disorder during the course of three decades of follow-up. Higher rates of … Read more on Psychiatric News Read ...

Depression Treatment Options and Results

...  treatment options and results – A radical new brain operation, a procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation, is being used on patients suffering severe depression. The procedure has been perfo…   Diagnosing Self-Destruction The distribution of suicide, the frequency at which people are killing themselves in the United States, is not related to the rates at which they have major depressive disorder, the rates with which they have substance use disorder, the rates with … Read more on KUHF-FM Read ...