Category: Studies
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Studying Postpartum Depression
Read more: Studying Postpartum DepressionScienceDaily: More than just baby blues: How postpartum depression arises and how it could be prevented. Within the first week after giving birth, up to 70 percent of all women experience symptoms of the baby blues. While most women recover quickly, up to 13 percent of all new mothers suffer from symptoms of a clinical-level postpartum…
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Depression and Weight Gain
Read more: Depression and Weight GainNYT (again): Exploring the Links Between Depression and Weight Gain. In a society enamored with thinness, many assume that being fat is depressing — that if there is a cause and effect relationship, it’s obesity that makes people feel down. But “there is an alternative explanation,” said Belinda L. Needham, an assistant professor of sociology at…
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What Babies Know
Read more: What Babies KnowStudy at ScienceDaily: Babies Grasp Number, Space and Time Concepts. “We’ve shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to ‘more than’ or ‘less than’ relations across the number, size and duration of objects. And what’s really remarkable is they only need experience with one of these quantitative concepts in order to guess what the other quantities should…
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Testosterone v. Trust
Read more: Testosterone v. TrustNYT: She doesn’t trust you? Blame the testosterone. Researchers…gave young women a dose of the hormone in the form of a drop of liquid placed under the tongue, then asked them to judge the trustworthiness of a series of men’s faces shown in photographs. The women were significantly less inclined to trust a face when…
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Therapy for Depression
Read more: Therapy for DepressionAnother study showing that depression declines with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This one with longer-term treatment–35 sessions. “On completion of therapy, patients reported significantly fewer symptoms than on commencement,” Schindler summarizes the results of a before/after comparison. Whether patients were also concomitantly taking psychotropic drugs or not evidently had no effect on the outcome.