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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 [...]

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 [...]

When a person suffers from biochemically-induced depression, counseling and psychotherapy treatments from even the greatest doctors are doomed to fail. That’s because words have no power to cure the biochemical disruption in the brain, which causes the affliction. For many, depression is known as a direct result of tragic external events. However, research studies have [...]

Antidepressants are basically a class of medicines for the treatment of depression. They generally changes the composition of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Antidepressants can be classified on the basis of how they affect the chemicals presents in our body, which are the main cause of depression. On the basis of these chemicals, the antidepressants can be [...]

By Lindsey Kay.
For BrainBlogger.
It is well known that depression results from the combination of many different factors. Environmental effects, such as stressful life events, are a trigger in many patients for the development of major depressive disorder (MDD) and the milder disorder, dysthymia. It is also true that the same major stressors will not produce [...]

Depression represents one of the most common comorbidities in patients with epilepsy. However, the mechanisms of depression in epilepsy patients are poorly understood. Establishment of animal models of this comorbidity is critical for both understanding the mechanisms of the condition, and for preclinical development of effective therapies. The current study examined whether a commonly used [...]

Essay By Dr. James Potash, M.D.
For ABC-news.
New Research Clarifies More Than Ever Basis of ‘Comfort Food’.
Is ice cream an antidepressant?
Some patients with depression will eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream at night before they go to bed. They feel comforted - at least briefly - by the high-calorie treat. Of course, it [...]

Herbal remedies for depression have been used for a very long time. They have also been proven to be very effective too. Most of the focus is on St. John’s Wort which has proven to be just as effective as prescription antidepressants without the side effects. However, St. John’s Wort should not be taken with [...]

Depression is quite a common condition. Most people across the globe have to deal with feeling depressed at least once or twice in a lifetime. In the United States alone, figures show that over 20 million people are suffering from some form of depression, anxiety and stress.
Depression that is onset by traumatic experiences like job [...]

Drugs used to treat depression are some of the most prescribed drugs on the market today. These particular drugs work on balancing or helping the brain to create more neurotransmitters which are basically chemicals that help to relay messages from one nerve to another. The body uses the amino acids found in protein to produce [...]