While studies have linked depression to a higher risk of death from heart disease, new research suggests that it may contribute to deaths from a range of causes.

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While the symptoms of bipolar disorder can be disabling on their own, most patients with the condition also are afflicted with a variety of other psychiatric, substance use…

An intensive form of talk therapy, known as transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), can help individuals affected with borderline personality disorder (BPD) by reducing symptoms and improving their social functioning, according…

Knowing pharmacokinetics can improve efficacy, help avoid adverse effects.

Where do you turn for help in dosing an antidepressant for a child with major depressive disorder? You might…

Marriage provides greater psychological benefits to depressed people compared to people who are not depressed before they walk down the aisle, a new study reveals. This remains true even though…

Depression following myocardial infarction is associated with poor cardiac prognosis. It is unclear whether antidepressant treatment improves long-term depression status and cardiac prognosis.

Mothers of young children who feel they lack emotional support or help in caring for their children have more than three-times the risk of mental health problems compared to…

A simple personality test could help doctors detect dementia with Lewy bodies, a form of dementia often confused with Alzheimer’s disease, sooner, according to a study published in the…

It is estimated that more than 20 million people in the United States suffer with depression. Depression is a medical condition that effects the brain by an imbalance of brain chemicals. Everyone feels “blue”…

In Appalachia, diabetes hits hard. Depression does, too. Together, they form a difficult pair to beat.

To help patients fight back, a team of Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine…

There is a prevalence of insomnia seen in psychiatric illness although insomnia itself can be a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. That’s according to research presented here on at the…

You run in the morning, train for your next marathon at night despite a nagging injury, and head to the gym to weight train in your free…

In people with mild cognitive impairment, up to one drink of alcohol a day may slow their progression to dementia, according to a study published in the May 22, 2007,…

Hospitals that use a simple strategy of enhancing communication with family members of patients dying in the intensive care unit can greatly reduce post-traumatic stress…

Some ethnic minorities could be twice as likely as white and Native American people to prefer counseling and prayer to medication for treating depression, according to a national Internet…

The increase in the number of diagnosed cases of autism in recent years has sparked concern that environmental toxins may cause this complex disorder. However, a new…

Psychiatric researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine will report important new findings from a study of patients with bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia at the…

Older patients with major depression whose primary care physicians team with depression care managers are 45% less likely to die within a 5-year time period than older…

When all variations of bipolar disorder, or the entire “bipolar spectrum disorder,” are considered, the estimated lifetime prevalence in the general population is approximately 4 percent, investigators report in the Archives…

When Jo Adams was referred to the counsellor at her GP’s surgery, she expected to be given help for her severe depression. But that was not…

The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of…

New research indicates that young children with autism have a difficult time recognizing ordinary words and more of their brains are occupied with this kind of task compared to…

Eating pistachios may reduce your body’s response to the stresses of everyday life, according to a Penn State study.

“A ten-year follow-up study of young men showed that those who had…

As the sports world prepares for this weekend’s National Football League draft and the excitement of promising young players entering the league, a new study from the University of Michigan Health System…

At least one-third of the time, the symptoms of bipolar disorder first appear in childhood or adolescence. However, in children, it can be difficult to distinguish bipolar symptoms from those…