Distinguishing A Bad Mood From Depression In Teenagers, From The Harvard Mental Health Letter (Medical News Today)

The teenage years are a time of emotional highs and lows. So how do you distinguish normal teenage mood swings and rebellion from actual depression? The September 2008 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter highlights some ways to tell. Although depression can occur at any age, it affects teens more than younger children.

Improve Recognition of Adolescent Depression (Psych Central)

While it is normal for teenagers to experience emotional highs and lows, distinguishing between normal teenage mood swings and actual depression is critical for effective care. The September 2008 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter highlights some ways to make the identification. Although depression can occur at any age, it affects teens more [...]

UC team studies link between Parkinson's disease and depression (EurekAlert!)

( University of Cincinnati ) A patient who receives a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease might become depressed, and understandably so. But does the depression then exacerbate the progression of Parkinson's? That's one of the questions a team of University of Cincinnati researchers is studying, with the help of a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

UC team studies link between Parkinson's disease and depression (PhysOrg)

A patient who receives a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease might become depressed, and understandably so. But does the depression then exacerbate the progression of Parkinson's?

HealthWatch: Kids' Moods Vs. Depression | Over-Eating Triggers (NBC 5 Chicago)

Topics: How Parents Can Differentiate Bad Moods, Depression | New Research About What Triggers Over-Eating

Depression drug Cymbalta eases chronic back pain (News-Medical-Net)

A drug used to treat depression has been found to also be effective in reducing chronic low back pain.

Distinguishing a Bad Mood from Depression in Teenagers (Newswise)

The teenage years are a time of emotional highs and lows. So how do you distinguish normal teenage mood swings and rebellion from actual depression? The September 2008 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter highlights some ways to tell.

Symptoms of Depression Increase Stroke Risk --- HealthandAge (HealthandAge)

Previous studies that have looked at the relationship between depressive symptoms and stroke in the elderly population have been contradictory. Investigators from the Netherlands studied 4424 men and women who were at least 61 years of age and older.

Sex Differences Seen in Response to Common Antidepressant (Newswise)

Women with depression may be much more likely than men to get relief from a commonly used, inexpensive antidepressant drug, a new national study finds. But many members of both sexes may find that it helps ease their depression symptoms.

Animal therapy for mental health (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

MANILA, Philippines?In Norway, on the way to the countryside, we passed by a ?farm clinic? where horses and other farm animals are used to assist in the treatment of mental disorders such as depression, excessive anxiety and even frank psychosis.

Noelle McCarthy : Obama the orator has already made history

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." ...

Obama speech hits major EPI themes on the need for economic change

In accepting the Democratic presidential nomination last night, Sen. Barack Obama spoke eloquently and passionately about the failures of the long-dominant U.S. economic philosophy, which has contributed to the ...

Tropical systems all too interesting

The past week has been one I have found interesting. We began with Tropical Storm Fay and were in the cone of possibility, but it reversed itself and went the other way.

The way we ate

David Veart: ``While our culinary dexterity as slice, bikkie and cake makers may not be as sexy as bronzed Mediterranean peasants conjuring a delicious meal out of a rocky hillside, it is ours.'' Old ...

America's First Black Corporate Professionals Worked for Pepsi

The speakers are surviving members of Pepsi-Cola's first African-American marketing team in the 1940s: Allen L. McKellar, Harvey C. Russell, Charles E. Wilson, and Julian C. Nicholas.

11-Month-Old Colombian Baby Weighs 62 Pounds

Colombian doctors are trying to determine why an 11-month-old baby already weighs nearly 62 pounds.

Man Charged In Fatal L.I. Hit-And-Run

Learn about the most common cancers that could affect you and what you can do to prevent them.

Changing times mean changing energy attitudes

Our citizens born before the Great Depression remember a Southern Maryland without electricity, with poor roads, steamboat travel, one-room schools and a self-sufficiency born of the necessity of the economic ...

After Collecting 30,000 signatures in NY, PSL's La Riva/Puryear...

On August 18, the Party for Socialism and Liberation filed with the state's Board of Elections in Albany.

Depression Video

"I started feeling so good that I felt I didn't need treatment" John started taking medication again after he felt himself slipping back into his depression.