Fathers as well as mothers can experience post-natal depression — and it is linked to emotional problems for their teenage daughters, new research has found. Continue reading “Post-natal depression in dads linked to depression in their teenage daughters”
Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses
Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses. Continue reading “Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses”
Effective new target for mood-boosting brain stimulation found
Researchers have found an effective target in the brain for electrical stimulation to improve mood in people suffering from depression. As reported in the journal Current Biology on November 29, stimulation of a brain region called the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) reliably produced acute improvement in mood in patients who suffered from depression at the start of the study. Continue reading “Effective new target for mood-boosting brain stimulation found”
Study links vitamin D-deficient older adults with greater risk of developing depression
A new study by researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin has shown for the first time in Ireland that a deficiency in vitamin D was associated with a substantial increased risk of depression (+75%) over a four-year follow up period. The findings form part of the largest representative study of its kind and have just been published in The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (JAMDA). Continue reading “Study links vitamin D-deficient older adults with greater risk of developing depression”
Relationship of Internet addiction with cognitive style, personality, and depression in university students
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Senormancı O, Saraçlı O, Atasoy N, Senormancı G, Koktürk F, Atik L. Continue reading “Relationship of Internet addiction with cognitive style, personality, and depression in university students”
The impact of Orthodox Christian Neptic-Psychotherapeutic interventions on self-reported depressive symptomatology and comorbid anxiety
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the very interesting corresponding paper by the Right Reverend Dr. Andrew (Zoran) Vujisić. Continue reading “The impact of Orthodox Christian Neptic-Psychotherapeutic interventions on self-reported depressive symptomatology and comorbid anxiety”
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