Tag: mood disorders

Study examines ways to help seasonal affective syndrome sufferers

From the University of Pittsburgh press release by Melissa Carlson via ScienceDaily: Lying awake in bed plagues everyone occasionally, but for those with seasonal affective disorder, sleeplessness is routine. University… Read more »

Study finds brain differences in depressed preschoolers

From the Washington University in St. Louis press release via EurekAlert!: A key brain structure that regulates emotions works differently in preschoolers with depression compared with their healthy peers, according… Read more »

Study examines effect of antidepressants on fear conditioning

From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: An interesting new report of animal research published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that… Read more »

Study suggests depression raises diabetics’ risk of severe low blood sugar episodes

From the University of Washington press release by Michael Mccarthy via MedicalXpress: Patients with diabetes who are depressed are much more likely to develop episodes of dangerously low blood sugars,… Read more »

Researchers identify networks of neurons disrupted in psychiatric disease

From the Canadian Association for Neuroscience press release via EurekAlert!: Studying the networks of connections in the brains of people affected by schizophrenia, bipolar disease or depression has allowed Dr…. Read more »

Study suggests depression common among children with temporal lobe epilepsy

From the Wiley press release via EurekAlert!: A new study determined that children and adolescents with seizures involving the temporal lobe are likely to have clinically significant behavioral problems and… Read more »

Study suggests insomnia may cause dysfunction in emotional brain circuitry

From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: A new study provides neurobiological evidence for dysfunction in the neural circuitry underlying emotion regulation in people with insomnia,… Read more »

Study suggests kids, especially boys, perceive sadness of depressed parents

From the University of Michigan press release via HealthCanal: Children of depressed parents pick up on their parents’ sadness—whether mom or dad realizes their mood or not. A new University… Read more »