MedLINE: DEPRESSION – Specific- Clinical Notes: Big 'Soda' Tax Needed to Change Habits Sunday, May 20, 2012Taxes on unhealthy foods need to be set at 20% or more to improve major health outcomes such as obesity, researchers said. Also this week: a recent spike in fatal falls may be illusory.
- DSM-5: What's In, What's Out Thursday, May 10, 2012PHILADELPHIA -- Reports here provided what may be the last public update on DSM-5, the next edition of American psychiatry's diagnostic guide, before it is formally released in May 2013.
- Study Links Late Depression, Risk of Dementia Tuesday, May 8, 2012Depression that strikes for the first time in later life may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported, but depression in the middle years that recurs later may be one of the causes of vascular dementia.
- DSM-5 Panel Tiptoes on Grief, Depression Monday, May 7, 2012PHILADELPHIA -- Psychiatrists writing new diagnostic criteria for major depression hope an explanatory note will mollify critics of a proposal to let patients grieving a dead loved one receive a formal diagnosis.
- Most DSM-5 Revisions Pass Field Trials Monday, May 7, 2012PHILADELPHIA -- Field trials of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable.
- Clinical Notes: Big 'Soda' Tax Needed to Change Habits Sunday, May 20, 2012
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Category Archives: DEPRESSION
Mental health ‘more worthy’ cause than war: soldier | CTV News
Just when our soldiers are coming home. When it has been the first real combat Canadian Soldiers have seen since what, correct me if I am wrong, but the Korean War? I am not minimizing the work our military does … Continue reading
ANOTHER REASON TO EAT HEALTHY – DEPRESSION RISK
TRANS-FATS LINKED TO INCREASED DEPRESSION RISK Findings Have Major Implications for Americans Trans-fats have already been linked to cardiovascular disease, but now a study has linked the consumption of trans-unsaturated fatty acids or trans-fats to an increased risk for depression. … Continue reading
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Tagged DEPRESSION, MUFAs, Trans fat, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
PREVALENCE AND (LACK OF) CONTROL OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN THE U.S.
Still today in 2011 there is a stigma attached to Depression. It is because of this stigma, of being LABELED that still half the population who have been diagnosed or who have signs of depression will not or refuse to … Continue reading
LINK FOUND BETWEEN MS AND DEPRESSION
Doctors link multiple scleroses to depression http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7544813&syndicate=syndicate§ion=
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DEPRESSION IN THE ELDERLY
For the past few months now I have been dreading the thought of moving. It is not the actual move that gets me in a knot, but it is the thought of downsizing that is getting me anxious. Actually I … Continue reading
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