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 Depression Information - October 6, 2008
| A British Medical Journal study challenges the belief abortion yields a higher risk of depression. The authors suggest abortion may be linked to a lower risk of depression through beneficial effects on education, income, and family size | | A British Medical Journal study challenges the belief abortion yields a higher risk of depression. The authors suggest abortion may be linked to a lower risk of depression through beneficial effects on education, income, and family size | | U.S. consumers could have saved $20 billion in 2004 and even more during this and future years by using more generic drugs, according to a new report by Express Scripts, Inc. In reference to the U.S. commercially insured population, the study looked at six major drug-therapy classes and was based on a random sample of approximately 3-million individuals | | Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago used functional brain imaging to research an established connection between emotional impairment and low cognition in children with bipolar disorder. Dr. Mani Pavuluri, associate professor of psychiatry at UIC's Institute for Juvenile Research and the Center for Cognitive Medicine is the lead author of the study. He says, "This study is very exciting because it shows that negative emotions affect cognition differently than positive emotions in these kids | | The promise of a new interactive Web site launching promises to make you happy. It's based on more than 40-years of clinical research from the world's foremost authority on positive psychology, Dr. Martin Seligman. The new site, www.reflectivehappiness.com provides users with a series of scientifically tested exercises that have been clinically proven to decrease depression while improving emotional well being, allowing for more happiness in life | |
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