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Future-Directed Therapy Helps Depression Patients Cultivate Optimistic Outlook
Patients with major depression do better by learning to create a more positive outlook about the future, rather than by focusing on negative thoughts about their past experiences, researchers at Cedars-Sinai say after developing a new treatment that helps...
Depression And Pain Increase Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors
In Spain, 5-year survival following breast cancer diagnosis is more than 83%. Around 66% suffer fatigue following treatment. A Spanish research establishes the factors associated with tiredness in cancer survivors to improve their quality of life and...
Male-female Ring Finger Proportions Tied to Sex Hormones in Embryo
Biologists at the University of Florida have found a reason why men’s ring fingers are generally longer than their index fingers — and why the reverse usually holds true for women. The finding could help medical professionals understand the origin...
The Emotional Brain in Youth
Recognition of bipolar disorder in adolescents is now clearly established. However, whether bipolarity exists in children remains controversial despite numerous studies that have been conducted on this topic in the last fifteen years. Since the diagnosis...
Smokers with Mental Disorders, Drug And Alcohol Problems Need Doctors’ Help to Quit
Smokers who also have alcohol, drug and mental disorders would benefit greatly from smoking-cessation counseling from their primary care physicians and would be five times more successful at kicking the habit, a study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson...
Less Depression for Working Moms Who Expect That They ‘can’t Do It All’
Working moms have lower rates of depression than their stay-at-home counterparts, but buying into the supermom myth could put working mothers at greater risk for depression. A new study shows that working mothers who expressed a supermom attitude that...
Childhood Maltreatment Linked to Long-term Depression Risk And Poor Response to Treatment
People who have experienced maltreatment as children are twice as likely to develop both multiple and long-lasting depressive episodes as those without a history of childhood maltreatment, according to a new study. The research, led by a team at King’s...
Clinically Depressed Women in Drug Court have Substantially Higher Risk of Using Crack Cocaine
Women who are clinically depressed at the time they enter drug court have a substantially higher risk of using crack cocaine within four months, according to a new study. Because current but not past depression was associated with a higher risk of use,...
