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New Clues About the Link Between Stress and Depression

Oct. 2, 2020 — Researchers have identified a protein in the brain that is important both for the function of the mood-regulating substance serotonin and for the release of stress hormones, at least in mice. The ...

Insomnia Treatment Offers Relief

Sep. 23, 2020 — Insomnia causing sleepless nights, daytime fatigue and poor health outcomes is a cycle worth busting, experts say, with depression, anxiety and stress a common co-occurrence. A study of more than 450 ...

Low Level Alcohol Use During Pregnancy Can Impact Child's Brain Development

Sep. 25, 2020 — A new study finds any alcohol use during pregnancy, even low levels, is associated with subtle, yet significant behavioural and psychological effects in children including anxiety, depression and ...

People React Better to Both Negative and Positive Events With More Sleep

Sep. 15, 2020 — New research finds that after a night of shorter sleep, people react more emotionally to stressful events the next day -- and they don't find as much joy in the good things. This has important health ...

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Nurture Trumps Nature in Determining Severity of PTSD Symptoms

Oct. 1, 2020 — Researchers previously identified a host of genetic risk factors that help explain why some veterans are especially susceptible to the debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder ...

Yoga and Meditation Reduce Chronic Pain

Oct. 1, 2020 — A mindfulness-based stress reduction course was found to benefit patients with chronic pain and depression, leading to significant improvement in participant perceptions of pain, mood and functional ...

Antipsychotics for Treating Adult Depression Linked With Higher Mortality

Sep. 30, 2020 — Researchers have reported an increased mortality risk in adults with depression who initiated augmentation with newer antipsychotic medications compared to a control group that initiated augmentation ...

How the Brain Balances Emotion and Reason

Sep. 28, 2020 — Navigating through life requires balancing emotion and reason, a feat accomplished by the brain region 'area 32' of the anterior cingulate cortex. The area maintains emotional equilibrium by relaying ...

Amyloid Deposits Not Associated With Depression in the Elderly

Sep. 23, 2020 — Researchers have suspected that amyloid beta deposits might also underlie the cognitive decline seen in older people with depression, however a new study has found that abnormal amyloid beta deposits ...

Novel Neuroimaging Study on Dissociative Symptoms Reveals Wounds of Childhood Trauma

Sep. 25, 2020 — Brain imaging analyses can uncover changes in functional connections between brain regions linked to dissociative ...

ADHD Study Reveals Unique Genetic Differences in African American Patients

Sep. 22, 2020 — Researchers have shown there may be key genetic differences in the causes of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) between African Americans and people of European ancestry, which may play ...

Mental Illness Treatment Varies Widely Among American Adolescents Within and Across Zip Codes

Sep. 21, 2020 — After a mental illness episode, less than half of children received any therapy within three months, and 22.5% of children received only drug ...

Ten Minutes of Massage or Rest Will Help Your Body Fight Stress

Sep. 18, 2020 — Study shows that short, easy-to-apply relaxation techniques can activate the body's regenerative system for fighting stress -- offering new perspective on how we can treat stress-related ...

Study Links Rising Stress, Depression in U.S. to Pandemic-Related Losses, Media Consumption

Sep. 28, 2020 — Experiencing multiple stressors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic -- such as unemployment -- and COVID-19-related media consumption are directly ...