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Emotional recovery is delayed in patients with breast cancer who receive “taxane-based” chemotherapy, researchers from Ohio State University in Columbus report in the journal Cancer.
Dr. Lisa M. Thornton and colleagues studied 35 women who received taxane as part of chemotherapy, comparing them to 83 matched patients receiving chemotherapy without taxane.
“As expected, patients in the taxane [...]

New findings that antipsychotic drugs may not work as scientists have assumed could lead to changes in how the drugs are developed and prescribed, say Duke University Medical Center researchers.
Antipsychotic drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other mental health problems target the D2 receptor inside cells. The Duke researchers found that the biochemical pathways that [...]

A short 20-week course of psychotherapy may improve depression and anxiety symptoms for gay men living with HIV, according to a study published in the July issue of AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
Depression and anxiety are more common in people living with HIV than the general public, and gay men who are HIV-positive may doubly [...]

By Amy Norton.
For Reuters.
The hormone supplement DHEA is touted as an anti-aging panacea, but a new study suggests that it does nothing for healthy older adults’ brain power or general well-being.
DHEA, or dehydroepiandrosterone, is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands that is converted into other steroid hormones, including testosterone and estrogen. People’s levels of [...]

New research from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrates the importance of brain serotonin for offspring survival.
The study, “Serotonergic Transcriptional Programming Determines Maternal Behavior and Offspring Survival,” appears in the September 2008 issue of Nature Neuroscience. It uses Pet-1 mutant mice, genetically altered mice carrying a mutation in a gene that directs the [...]

By Sharon Jayson.
From AbcNews.
A comprehensive study of suicidal thinking among college students found more than half of the 26,000 surveyed had suicidal thoughts at some point during their lifetime. The web-based survey conducted in spring 2006 used separate samples of undergraduate and graduate students from 70 colleges and universities across the country.
Of the 15,010 undergraduates, [...]

The Back-to-School Blues is very real according to Mary Muscari, associate professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and author of Not My Kid: 21 Steps for Raising a Nonviolent Child and Let Kids be Kids: Rescuing Childhood. Children deal with a loss of freedom as their summer vacation comes to an end. [...]

By Liz Spikol.
Source: The Trouble With Spikol.
From the BBC:
Depression link to poor driving.
People on anti-depressants may have impaired driving skills, a small US study suggests.
Researchers put 60 people through a driving simulation to test steering, concentration and reactions.
North Dakota University found those on high dose anti-depressant courses had poorer driving skills.
But it was not clear [...]

By Alan Mozes.
Taking prescription antidepressants while still highly depressed could impair driving ability, a new study suggests.
“We already know that depression causes concentration problems,” said study author Holly J. Dannewitz. “And now it appears that people taking antidepressants who also have relatively higher depression scores fare significantly worse when attempting to perform a computerized simulation [...]

Asian-American individuals, whose families experience a high degree of interpersonal conflict, have been found to be thrice as likely to attempt suicide than Asian-Americans overall in a new study.
Experts at the University of California, Davis say that the risk is tripled even among those who have never had a diagnosis of depression.
“Because of the great [...]