Identifying depression in children is not always easy. Children, especially younger children, may not yet have acquired the vocabulary, skills or even the comprehension to articulate their experiences. Some children withdraw and become sullen and others may become hyperactive or aggressive. Children therefore manifest depression in very... Read more
Depression coupled with hostility form a destructive alliance in terms of elevating the risk of heart disease. Professor Jesse Stewart, assistant professor of psychology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, revealed a complex interaction of psychology and physiology in which inflammatory proteins are triggered to predict heart... Read more
Apologies if the title startled you, but last week, some headlines that shared this or similar sentiments, were splashed over newspapers and the information super-highway. ‘No better than a sugarpill’, declared some. The one consistent feature of most reporting was that it was high in scare tactics and low in fact & detail. ... Read more
Results from a large clinical trial of patients with unipolar depression show that improvements in mood do not necessarily coincide with a decrease in the sense of hopelessness. Professor James E. Aikens, from the Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, found that compared to improvements in mood, hopefulness can... Read more
A few years ago, if I mentioned serotonin to a class of 18 year olds, I would have been met by a wall of silence and maybe a question about how you spell that. Today things are different. Serotonin has found its way into the general vocabulary of many young people and we can only speculate why this might be so. From the point of... Read more
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