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Along with meds, brain stimulation may aid depression
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treating people with depression using weak electrical currents passed into the brain through a headband may help relieve some of their symptoms when combined with an antidepressant, a new study suggests. Researchers found that...Tags: Placebo, Medical Specialization, Brazil, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Duke University
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Local teen beats suicidal thoughts with controversial treatment
It's a nation-wide problem affecting local families. A shortage of psychiatrists means adults, teens and kids who desperately need help aren't getting it. The reason for the shortage? Med students are choosing other specialties. Our Fact Finder team...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Suicide, Behavioral Conditions, Psychiatry, Psychiatrists
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In Theory: Do the media glamorize suicide?
French sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote, "No fact is more readily transmissible by contagion than suicide." According to writer Giles Fraser, the media play a part in this transmission. In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Fraser argues...
Tags: Media Industry, Schizophrenia, Human Interest, Personal Weapon Control, Alcohol Addiction
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Small trial shows 'brain pacemaker' may ease severe anorexia
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time reported successful use of a brain-stimulating implant to help patients with severe anorexia whose condition had not improved with other treatments. Doctors implanted a device similar to a pacemaker...Tags: Weight, Placebo, Trials, Behavioral Conditions, Anorexia
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Iris DeMent interview: After 16 years, the songs start to flow again
Iris DeMent’s much-celebrated 2012 release, “Sing the Delta” (Flariella), marked the singer’s first album of new material in 16 years. But it was an album of old-timey gospel songs she essentially released for herself in 2004,...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Music, Religion and Belief, Behavioral Conditions, Entertainment
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Searching for a father in Depression-era Michigan
If anyone calls the hero of Christopher Paul Curtis' Depression-era novel by the name of Buddy, not Bud, the 10-year-old orphan gets upset. His loving mom, who died a few years previously, always told him to insist he be called "Bud, not Buddy," an...
Tags: Music, Behavioral Conditions, Celebrities, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Get the 'Side Effects' experience
OPENING FRIDAY Side Effects Steven Soderbergh, rightly considered one of Hollywood’s smartest movie makers, is at his cleverest in "Side Effects," a canny, cunning big-idea thriller in a minor key, an engrossing zeitgeist whodunit about Wall...
Tags: Winter Park, Criminals, Melissa McCarthy, Physical Fitness and Exercise, The Hollywood Reporter
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The system's missing pieces
In testimony before President Barack Obama's Gun Violence Task Force on Jan. 9, Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a Columbia University professor and former president of the American Psychiatric Association, said that the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, coming so soon after...Tags: Nursing Homes, Internists, Schizophrenia, Human Interest, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Newly-approved treatment offers hope for depression patients
ewood@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- One in ten people in the Ozarks suffer from depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For many, treating the illness requires medication. But now a breakthrough treatment is providing a new option....Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Behavioral Conditions, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals
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What's Going Around: Seasonal affective disorder
lmatter@kspr.com, tnguyen@kspr.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The lack of exposure to sunlight in the winter months can not only affect our moods, but can also lead to a disorder. It's called Seasonal Affective Disorder, better known as SAD. And doctors say it can be serious. "Because of the...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Behavioral Conditions, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Light Therapy, Psychologists
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There is a cure for loneliness
“I’ve been lonely for quite some time now. It hangs over me like a black cloud and follows me wherever I go. At times I can escape it, but it seems like it always waiting there …” I’d heard similar confessions before from...
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Straight men more stressed, depressed than gay men, study says
A Canadian study on anxiety and sexual orientation suggests that heterosexual men suffer more depression and higher levels of stress than gay and bisexual men. The study, published Monday in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, involved 87 men and...
Tags: Hydrocortisone, Anxiety, Montreal (Canada), Behavioral Conditions, Medical Procedures and Tests
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