In the United States, about half a million people die from cancer. The diagnosis itself contributes to the emergence of sadness, disability, fear of death. Some chemotherapy drugs affect mood. In the terminal…
About 6 million elderly people in the United States suffer from depression. And only 10% of patients receive adequate treatment. Depression is often missed due to concomitant somatic and neurological diseases and…
At Harvard University, they found out that hundreds of civil aviation pilots are so depressed that they constantly think about suicide or self-mutilation. This is reported in the journal Environmental Health . The idea to conduct…
The authors of a large-scale sociological study found that the main cause of people's unhappiness is not financial difficulties, but discord in their personal lives and mental illness. It is reported…
American researchers have determined that variants of the same gene affect the characteristics of a person's character. Scientists have also found a link between personality traits and mental disorders. The research is published in…
Researchers from Novosibirsk found that the actions of the centers of activity of the brain, "supervising" depression and anxiety, are different. The work, funded by a grant from the Russian Science…
American scientists have found that a single alcohol intake causes the same changes in the body that occur when taking antidepressants. The research is published in the journal Nature Communications . Rapid-acting antidepressants such…
An international team of scientists with the participation of specialists from the M.V. Lomonosov, using ultrasound, caused emotional stress in mice and studied its physiological consequences. Changes characteristic of depressive disorders were…
Scientists have found that moderate stress, of little significance for a healthy person, causes a stronger and more lasting reaction in depression. New data will help to understand the mechanism of…
Russian scientists have analyzed more than one and a half hundred clinical studies of depression in women and the connection with it a lack of vitamin D. They have shown…