Tag: depression
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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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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.
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Depression, Weight, and Sleep (3 Articles)
Read more: Depression, Weight, and Sleep (3 Articles)Another set of three articles–ultrasounds, waistbands, and parenting–related by being a little more interesting than the others coming up in Google Reader right now: Brain stimulation with ultrasound may enhance cognitive function Link between depression, abdominal obesity confirmed by new study First-time parents’ daily sleep duration predicts their relationship satisfaction
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Pain Anger Memory (Three Articles)
Read more: Pain Anger Memory (Three Articles)Three clicks to three articles on three topics: Pain, Depression Linked (PsychCentral) Exercise May Ward Off Anger (WebMD) Memory Improved By Saying Words Aloud (PsyBlog)
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Smoking and Depression
Read more: Smoking and DepressionFrom PsychCentral: Stop Smoking, Reduce Risk of Depression? “Our findings are consistent with the conclusion that there is a cause and effect relationship between smoking and depression, in which cigarette smoking increases the risk of developing symptoms of depression…”