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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,...
Unique Nerve-stimulation Treatment Proves Effective Against Drug-resistant Epilepsy
Medications are the mainstay of treatment for epilepsy, but for a considerable number of patients — estimated to be as many as 1 million in the U.S. — drugs don’t work. These patients suffer from a type of epilepsy known as refractory or drug-resistant...‘The Potential to Modify the Course of Parkinson’s Disease’
Georgetown University Medical Center’s Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD, joins preeminent scientists from academia, government, and industry along with advocates, at the “One Mind for Research Forum,” a three-day conference designed to dramatically...Positive Effects of Depression
Sadness, apathy, preoccupation. These traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world’s most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet, forthcoming research in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology provides evidence that depression...Alcohol, Mood And Me (not You)
Thanks in part to studies that follow subjects for a long time, psychologists are learning more about differences between people. In a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological...
