When anticipating pain, the brains of people with depression kick into overdrive and hinder their ability to handle hurt, a new study shows. Brain imaging also reveals that during the painful experience, activity then decreases in other areas, including those regions that handle pain modulation.
“The anticipatory brain response may indicate hypervigilance to impending threat, which may lead to increased helplessness and maladaptative
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Depression, anxiety and certain other mental health conditions are more common among infertile couples than those who are able to conceive on their own, a small study suggests.
The findings, say researchers, imply that routine mental health screening could benefit patients being treated for infertility.
While most of the 81 infertile couples in the study did not suffer from any of the psychiatric conditions the researchers
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Depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders are more common among infertile couples, suggests a small study published in the December 2008 issue of Fertility and Sterility.
While most of the 81 infertile couples assessed in the study did not suffer from any sort of disorder, as a group, they did suffer from mental disorders at a higher rate than the 70 fertile couples studied.
The biggest difference
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A Swedish study suggests that infants who are born prematurely may be more at risk for depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders during adolescence and early adulthood.
In the January 2009 issue of Pediatrics, Dr. Karolina Lindstrom from Sachs Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, and her colleagues reported that among 545,628 Swedish residents born in the 1970s and followed up until 23 to 29 years of age, 3.5% of
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Sexual abuse in childhood increases the risk of suicide in men by up to ten times, say researchers from the University of Bath. A recent study of Australian men has found that those who were sexually abused as children are more likely than women to contemplate taking their own lives.
Whilst gender and mental health problems are the most important risk factors for contemplating suicide, it is increasingly acknowledged that traumatic
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According to a recent study, it was found that youth in their late teens are four times more likely to commit suicide than those who live in better neighborhoods. It was also found that these kids from poor neighborhoods were twice as likely to report suicidal thoughts.
The study showed
that late teens from disadvantaged neighborhoods had higher levels of depressive symptoms along with lower levels of social support.
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