Exercise - The Miracle Anti-Depressant Drug!

Exercise - The Miracle Anti-Depressant Drug!

A recent study has discovered that exercise is as effective at combating depression as anti-depressant tablets.
The study, conducted by the American Medical Institute, involved the testing of 100 subjects, all of whom were clinically diagnosed as having ’severe depressive illness’. Of these 100 people, 25 were given a course of anti-depressant tablets, 25 were given [...]

Exercise And Antidepressants Use The Same Biochemical Pathway.

Exercise And Antidepressants Use The Same Biochemical Pathway.

Researchers conducting a study in mice have discovered that the brain must create new nerve cells for either exercise or antidepressants to reduce depression-like behavior. In addition, the researchers found that antidepressants and exercise use the same biochemical pathway to exert their effects.
These results might help explain some unknown mechanisms of antidepressants and provide a [...]

Brain activity in depression demystified making way for better treatment.

There are people who are practical and move on with time. Then there are the ones who cry over the wounds time leaves on their soul and remain depressed for quite a long time. While we can do nothing but empathise with them, sometimes it is really hard to understand that why a person is [...]

Stress may raise breast cancer risk in young women.

Stress may raise breast cancer risk in young women.

By Anne Harding.
For NEW YORK (Reuters Health).
Young women who experience more than one stressful life event are at greater risk of developing breast cancer, but a general feeling of happiness and optimism may help guard against the disease, Israeli researchers report.
The findings shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that optimism is all you need to prevent [...]

Number of depressed young Yemenis is increasing.

Number of depressed young Yemenis is increasing.

By Bashir Al-Selwi.
For The Yemen Times.
“I’m in a dark tunnel alone. No one can imagine what happens to me every day,” describes 23-year-old Sana’a University student Khader Al-Selwi, who was diagnosed with depression five years ago.
“I can’t work and I dislike living anymore. I hope to die today before tomorrow because it’s better than living [...]

New wave of drug deaths hits Southwest Florida.

New wave of drug deaths hits Southwest Florida.

By Gabriella Souza.
Source: News-Press.
Patrick Mullins held his best friend’s body in his arms, watching his face turn blue.
That memory is fresh on Mullins’ mind. The 24-year-old remembers that night three years ago when he drove to his best friend’s apartment high on prescription drugs, realizing his friend had overdosed on methadone and was probably dead.
“I [...]

Antidepressants Tied to Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Antidepressants Tied to Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

By Will Dunham.
Source: ABC News.
A class of drugs used by many people to treat depression may increase chances of gastrointestinal bleeding, although the risk remains low, Spanish researchers said on Monday.
The research looked at antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and found that bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract is more common [...]

Persistent depression seen with taxane-based chemo.

Persistent depression seen with taxane-based chemo.

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 [...]

Scientists ID Pathway That Makes Antipsychotic Drugs Work.

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 [...]

The Power of the Core-Breathing For Joy of Exercise For Depression.

The Power of the Core-Breathing For Joy of Exercise For Depression.

Creating your exercise as an emotional experience between your mind to be in your body, as you are doing a single exercise takes discipline base on concepts and methods and good value judgment to determine how the exercise is effecting your physical and emotional mental experience. Taking a view point that depression is a learned [...]

Short-term Therapy May Help HIV-Related Depression.

Short-term Therapy May Help HIV-Related Depression.

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 [...]