Major Depressive Disorder

Depression can be worsened with inflammation, according to findings published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

As the work of the Mildred and Frank Feinberg Division of the Unified Behavioral Health Center for Military Veterans and Their Families continues there have been countless stories about how they have helped not just to treat veterans but improve their family lives and help them move forward better than they were before.

While treating a veteran with post traumatic stress disorder is important, it is also proving to be equally as important to ensure that their friends and loved ones are being taken care of as well. When everything comes together the results have proven to be beyond the expectations of those involved in the overall treatment process.

In previous generations post traumatic stress disorder was either not diagnosed or not acknowledged. While there is still some resistance to treatment many veterans are now receiving the kind of help that may not have been available to those who served before them.

Treating a patient after experiencing a traumatic event can be challenging for even the most seasoned medical professional. However, with the right therapy and a range of medications available many service members can complete treatment and move forward with their lives.

As service men and women continue to face combat in the war on terror the after affects of their time in the military continue to be felt. Post traumatic stress disorder is a common thread dating back to the days of Vietnam and Korea and beyond but diagnosis continues to improve today.

Study results indicate that a family-level preventive intervention appears to help improve behavioral health outcomes in military families who are affected by the wartime deployment of a family member.

Completely resolving patients’ depressive symptoms is the best chance they have for reducing the risk for depression recurrence.

Study shows depression is more than a checklist of symptoms, and should be reconsidered as a complex web of interlocking symptoms.

Study findings indicate that a family-level preventive intervention appears to help improve behavioral health outcomes in military families who are affected by the wartime deployment of a family member.

Depression and emotional symptoms can accompany multiple sclerosis. Researchers offer guidelines on optimum treatment.

Findings show heart disease patients may benefit from maintaining positive emotions.

Being depressed or tired makes people less alert, but not sleepy, a Canadian study found. That means that sleepiness and poor alertness are not the same, and that doctors should not use the terms interchangeably.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital who analyzed medical records from three healthcare systems in their state have found no evidence to indicate that prenatal exposure to antidepressants increases the risk for autism and related disorders or for ADHD.

Although opioids can improve mood for a short time, their long-term effects can trigger the onset of depression.

A new study suggests that caregivers who want to increase the use of pancreatic enzymes by young patients with cystic fibrosis should consider whether their parents need treatment for depression.

Study shows patients who respond well to placebo alone could see even better results with regular medication while also raising more questions.

Using aripiprazole, commonly known as Abilify, in combination with older patients’ existing anti-depression treatment reduced depressive symptoms

There are many conditions which pediatricians and other health care professionals are well prepared to handle, recent research has shown a considerable amount of work remains to be done for the youngest anxiety patients.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic developed the Depression Medication Choice (DMC) encounter decision aid, designed to help patients and clinicians consider the available antidepressants and the extent to which they improved depression and other issues important to the patients.

For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, depression, stress, anxiety, and anger may compound their risk of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who also have psychological symptoms like depression, anxiety, psychosis, or alcohol or drug abuse may be more likely to be admitted to the hospital with complications.

Ultra-brief pulse stimulation is nearly as effective as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for severe depression, and it as fewer side effects.

The past 12 months have brought new insight to major depressive disorder which only brings hope to a better future.

Patients with chronic total occlusion percutaneous intervention may also be at risk of developing depression. Research has shown by treating the cardiac condition it can help lesson the symptoms of the psychiatric condition as well.

Bright light treatment alone or in combination with antidepressants are effective treatment options for patients with nonseasonal major depressive disorder.

Depression appears to be a risk factor for patients who have both that condition and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These patients are more likely to be readmitted to a hospital with acute episodes of COPD, Alabama researchers report.

Depression affects 20-40 percent of heart failure patients and is often linked to loss of motivation/ interest/confidence, lower quality of life, sleep disturbances, and changes in appetite with related weight changes.

Depression may be a very early symptom of Parkinson's disease, or a risk factor for the disease.

Study results indicate that parental death during childhood appears to increase long-term risk of suicide among that parent's children, regardless of the parent's cause of death.