Depressed people News

Regular sleep disruptions can increase the difficulty in shifting attention away from negative thoughts.  

Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that are good for health, especially the digestive system.   

Researchers found that administration of low-dose ketamine reduced anti-suicidal thoughts within hours.

For the study, the researchers used a new approach to measure the influence of one brain region on another, referred to as effective connectivity, in depression.  

A study says that exercising for just an hour every week can help prevent the risk of depression, only if it is followed religiously.

The results showed that smartphones open up non-stigmatising and self-managing avenues of care for the people with depression because smartphones can help them monitor, understand and manage their own mental health. 

Based on the 14-year-olds reporting of their emotional problems, 24 per cent of girls and nine per cent of boys were found to suffer from depression.

The feature, launched for users in the US, will provide an option to take a clinically validated screening questionnaire called PHQ-9 when a person Googles the word "depression".

The study further says that the condition has different effects on the brain activity of males and females in particular regions of brain.

Globally, depression affects over 300 million people annually. Nearly 800,000 die from suicide every year - it is the second-leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 to 29, researchers said.

The paper revealed that the sufferers of all chronic conditions reviewed were at increased risk of developing depression or anxiety, emotional problems that persisted beyond childhood and adolescence and into adult life.

Such clinics would be opened in 170 primary health centres, which are being converted as family health centres under the Comprehensive Primary Health Care programme.

The play 'Avsaad Aao Baat Kare (Depression Let's Talk)' - presented at the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi - depicts major organs of the body in human form and accusing each other of being depressed.

These new figures are a wake-up call for all countries to re-think their approaches to mental health and to treat it with the urgency that it deserves.