12.20.2013 by Salynn Boyles Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Anxiety was found to increase stroke risk in a dose-dependent manner independent of depression and cardiovascular risk factors in a new study. Researchers reported that people with the most anxiety symptoms had a 33% increase in stroke risk compared with those with the fewest symptoms after controlling […]
Ritu Bhatnagar, MD, MPH THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE Volume 19, Number 11, 2013, pp. 860–861 ª Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/acm.2012.0602 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be a chronic and disabling condition with detrimental effects on an individual’s psychological, medical, social, and occupational functioning.1 PTSD has been conceptualized as a dysregulated […]
Published: Nov 14, 2013 | Updated: Nov 15, 2013 By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ObesityWeek/42913 Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Food addiction, as defined […]
Published: Nov 11, 2013 | Updated: Nov 12, 2013 By Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/SFN/42852 Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. SAN DIEGO — Young […]
NOVEMBER 4, 2013 POSTED BY AMANDA SCHAFFER Full Story: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/do-our-bones-influence-our-minds.html In the mid-nineteen-nineties, a young French geneticist and physician named Gerard Karsenty became curious about a mysterious protein, called osteocalcin, that is found at high concentrations in the skeleton. He worked with mice that had been engineered to lack the substance, expecting to find problems […]
Posted on November 12, 2013 by Amen Clinics Full Story: http://www.amenclinics.com/dr-amen/blog/2013/11/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-cause-hallucinations/ While the general debate around vitamin D supplementation continues, new studies steadily emerge, demonstrating the very serious health implications that may result from deficiency. Vitamin D’s nickname as the “sunshine vitamin” leads some people to assume that exposure to sunlight will provide all the D we need. […]
Megan Brooks November 06, 2013 Full Story: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/813896 Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the second leading cause of disability worldwide and a major contributor to the burden of suicide and ischemic heart disease, new data indicate. The findings highlight the importance of including depressive disorders as a global health priority, researchers say. The findings, published online November […]
Iron supplementation improved global cognitive scores, intelligence quotient among anemic children, and measures of attention and concentration, as well as age-adjusted height among all children and age-adjusted weight among anemic children.
Baek D, Park Y. Abstract Associations between n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), inflammation, oxidative stress and the risk of depression have been suggested. We hypothesize that erythrocyte n-3 PUFAs are inversely associated with biomarkers for inflammation and oxidative stress in Koreans with and without depression. Study participants comprised 80 cases diagnosed with depression based on […]
French children don’t need medications to control their behavior. Published on March 8, 2012 by Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. in Suffer the Children Full Story: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/suffer-the-children/201203/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for […]
A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Hirayama S, et al. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2013 Mar 17. doi: 10.1111/jhn.12090. [Epub ahead of print] Affiliation Department of Early Childhood Education and Care, Kurashiki City College, Okayama, Japan; Daigokyou, Kyoto, Japan. Abstract BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed behavioural disorder of childhood, affecting […]
Tiffany Field, Ph Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies Volume 17, Issue 4 , Pages 397-403, October 2013 Summary The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of yoga (physical activity) versus social support (verbal activity) on prenatal and postpartum depression. Ninety-two prenatally depressed women were randomly assigned to a yoga or a […]
Published: Oct 14, 2013 | Updated: Oct 16, 2013 By Charles Bankhead Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ACG/42247 Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. SAN DIEGO — Psychological comorbidity had a significant […]
Effects of chocolate on cognitive function and mood: a systematic review Andrew Scholey A systematic review was conducted to evaluate whether chocolate or its constituents were capable of influencing cognitive function and/or mood. Studies investigating potentially psychoactive fractions of chocolate were also included. Eight studies (in six articles) met the inclusion criteria for assessment of […]
Acupuncture appears to be equal to counseling and may offer an additional nonpharmacologic treatment option for patients with moderate to severe depression…
Sept. 12, 2013 By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES Dr. James Greenblatt, a Boston-area psychiatrist, had a puzzling case: a teenager arrived in his office with severe obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and an array of digestive problems. “Mary’s parents had been running around for many years and she’d had a […]
Psychiatrists, Instead of Being Embarrassed by Placebo Effect, Should Embrace It, Author Says By John Horgan | March 12, 2013 Scientific American: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/03/12/psychiatrists-instead-of-being-embarrassed-by-placebo-effect-should-embrace-it-author-says/ Walter Brown, a professor of psychiatry at Brown and Tufts, first caught my attention in the mid-1990s when I was researching my December 1996 Scientific Americanarticle “Why Freud Isn’t Dead,” on lack of progress […]
May A. Beydoun Abstract Evidence that depressive symptoms are inversely related to n–3 (ω3) fatty acids is growing among United States adults. We assessed whether self-reported depressive symptoms were inversely associated with n–3 fatty acid intakes by using a cross-sectional study in 1746 adults (aged 30–65 y) in Baltimore City, MD (2004–2009). The 20-item Center […]