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People who eat a Mediterranean diet are 30 percent less likely to develop depression, media reports have claimed. Previous research has shown that a diet rich in oily fish, olive oil and fresh fruit and vegetables can help to protect against heart disease. This latest study involved 10,094 healthy people living in Spain who completed a dietary questionnaire between 1999 and 2005. Read more...

People suffering from common mental health problems like anxiety or depression are more likely to become obese, researchers said. The risks increase every time a person suffers an episode of feeling depressed or anxious. The research was carried out on more than 4,000 adults (3,122 men and 1,241 women) aged 35 to 55 who were followed for more than 19 years. They were asked questions Read more...

A lack of sunlight can lead to reduced mental performance, not just mood disorders, among depressed people, a U.S. university study said. "This new finding that weather may not only affect mood but also cognition has significant implications for the treatment of depression, particularly seasonal affective disorder," University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Shia Kent said. Read more...

Marco has a date with a beautiful girl who lives in the penthouse apartment of a forty story building. She tells him she'll be a little late, and that the doorman will let him in, and that he should relax and play with her dog, Joey. He gets to the apartment and Joey is a huge great Dane. Marco keeps throwing a tennis ball so Joey can fetch it. One time he tosses the ball out on the balcony Read more...

Depression is one of the most destructive diseases of modern life. According to Dr. Stephen S. Ilardi, author of The Depression Cure, "Depression is a devastating illness. It robs people of their energy, their sleep, their memory, their concentration, their vitality, their joy, their ability to love and work and play, and-sometimes-even their will to live." Not only does depression Read more...

Everywhere we turn, we hear information about the benefits of exercise in building stronger bones and muscles and reducing the incidence of illnesses from diabetes to heart disease. A growing body of research however, is demonstrating that exercise is not just good for your body -- it's good for your brain. Physical activity can be beneficial to stroke victims, people suffering from Read more...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- In the six weeks since Michael Jackson's death, reports of anxiety, depression, insomnia and fatigue have all been tied to the cause as physical conditions that prompted his reliance on prescription drugs. But Beverly Hills anti-aging consultants Karen Norris and Eve Michaels of www.SimplyAgeless411.com say Jackson could have been suffering from male menopause for years. Read more...

Treating depression in women with rheumatoid arthritis may improve sleep as well as lessen pain and improve medication use, U.S. researchers said. Results indicate that length of time since rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, rheumatoid arthritis disease activity, level of pain, depression symptoms and adherence to medications for rheumatoid arthritis may cause women suffering from the disease to Read more...

Women theoretically understand menopause, but many underestimate the symptoms and their impact physically and emotionally, U.S. researchers said. Principal investigator David Portman of the Columbus Center for Women's Health Research in Ohio said 87 percent of women experience anxiety, depression and mood swings, and these symptoms negatively impact their relationships, family life and Read more...

Researchers in Russia say they found stress events often preceded the onset of rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Tatiana Lisitsyna of the State Institute of Rheumatology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow also found 63 percent of those with rheumatoid arthritis also suffered psychiatric disorder -- 87 percent of these were depressive disorders. The study presented at the annual Read more...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows. About 500,000 women in the United States take tamoxifen, which cuts in half the chances of a breast cancer recurrence. Many of them also take antidepressants for hot flashes, because hormone pills Read more...

WASHINGTON -- Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman's heart. Doctors have long known that depression is common after a heart attack or stroke and worsens those people's outcomes. Last week , Columbia University researchers reported new evidence that depression can lead to heart disease in the first place. The scientists tracked 63,000 women from the long-running Read more...

Men and women of all ages are affected by stress-related depression caused by continuing economic decline. However, I have found that mid-life men are particularly vulnerable. In the most extreme cases, emotionally unstable men can resort to violence directed at themselves and others. I was deeply saddened to learn about Ervin Antonio Lupoe who killed his wife and five children before Read more...

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"Brain disorders resulting in altered mood, memory, behavior and attention are a result of imbalances in the seven key systems of your body," says Mark Hyman, MD, author of "The Ultramind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First." "These 'diseases' really do not exist." Correcting your seven key systems requires optimizing nutrition, balancing Read more...

Some women experience a roller coaster of emotions as they transition into menopause. For individuals with a history of depression, those mood swings can be debilitating. Whether the disruption of hormonal rhythms that come with diminishing estrogen is the direct cause of depression in women vulnerable to mood disorders, or tied to the domino effect such changes can trigger (for instance, less Read more...

People who are depressed are literally sick at heart: They have a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and no one knows exactly why. Three new studies have tried to explain this, and they arrive at subtly different conclusions. The first, led by Dr. Mary Whooley of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, studied 1,017 patients with coronary artery disease for Read more...

"The sun will come out tomorrow." "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." "Put on a happy face." Nothing's more annoying than a handful of trite clichés when you're battling adversity and would really prefer a little sympathy. But these Pollyanna-like clichés point out that it is far more healthy to develop the ability to bounce back from Read more...

WASHINGTON - The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression -- a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. Those pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain cells to fire. Yet it doesn't cause the risks of surgically implanted electrodes or the treatment of last resort, shock therapy. Called transcranial magnetic Read more...

Heart patients are particularly vulnerable to depression and should be screened, and if necessary treated, to improve their recovery, U.S. researchers said. "Depression and heart disease seem to be very much intertwined," Judith H. Lichtman of Yale University of School of Public Health said in a statement. "You can't treat the heart in isolation from the patient's mental Read more...