A report in the latest issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that about 10% of new fathers experience postpartum depression. The data came from over forty studies conducted around the world over the last three decades, including data on over 28,000 subjects. Depression among new mothers has been the subject of…
The Centers for Disease Control reported this week that for the second year in a row, people aged 45 to 54 are the group with the highest suicide rates in the United States. There was a greater increase in suicide rates among women, but the increase was not enough to raise women’s rates to match…
While the effectiveness of antidepressant medication in treating the symptoms of depression is rarely questioned, a growing concern about relapse of depression symptoms has sparked recent controversy. Recently, a study analyzed statistics of depression relapse in patients who stopped taking antidepressant medications, and it was discovered that at least two-thirds of patients who will relapse…
Though it is widely accepted that eating chocolate can improve mood, a recent study from the University of California at San Diego has determined that too much of a good thing might increase the odds of actually becoming depressed. Chocolate’s link to mood has been widely researched and documented, but a recent survey of nearly…
Though research does not indicate that depression is a definite cause of smoking, or that cigarette smoking necessarily causes depression, recent findings have nonetheless identified an interesting correlation between cigarette smoking and depression. Results from a 2005-2008 nationwide survey of adults by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) concluded that not only are people more…