Depression and Anxiety

Mothers who are depressed during their pregnancy may have children who are more aggressive than others and may also have been more aggressive as teenagers themselves. Researchers from Cardiff University, King's College London and the University of Bristol studied 120 children and interviewed their mothers while they were pregnant, after they gave birth and again ... Read more

Genders issues in mainstream psychology are of interest to a excellent numerous people, us included. So we’re glad to welcome Yale University student, Johannah Cousins, as our newest blogger to be blogging about the intersection of gender issues and pop psychology in her new blog, Pop Psychology. Johannah Cousins is a senior English major at Yale ... Read more

Family therapy can aid to reduce suicidal thoughts and depression in adolescents. Suicide is the third leading cause of dying in American teenagers, accounting for more than 1,300 deaths in children between the ages of 12 and 18 in 2005. Researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia studied 66 children old between 12 and 17 ... Read more

As a group, people with schizophrenia have a higher dying rate than other people; something that has been proved in a number of different populations, continents and time periods. In Scandinavia the number of excessive deaths among schizophrenic people has really increased since the 1970s but it is not known if this trend holds true ... Read more

Although children can be depressed for numerous reasons, new proof suggests that there are physiological differences among depressed children based on their experiences of abuse before age 5. Early abuse may be particularly damaging due to the very young age at which it occurs. Those are the findings of a new study of low-income children that ... Read more

SUNDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have discovered genetic variants that are related with organic aging, a discovery that could explain why some people seem to age faster than others. The researchers, who report their findings Feb. 7 in the magazine Nature Genetics, analyzed more than 500,000 genetic variations in search of those linked to ... Read more

What would you tell if I told you that easily observing people thanking others induced more altruism? The easy act of watching someone else do something uplifting or a fine deed motivates us to also do good. At least that’s what researchers found in a recent demonstration of this effect at the University of Plymouth. In ... Read more

I discovered I'm being plagiarized by a site called Alaska Psychiatry Journal. They take my feed and republish it as their own, submitted by “admin” and filed under the “category” Depression Marathon. They also list Depression Marathon in their sidebar as a “category” with no link to my site. And I'm not the just one. ... Read more

I have no capability anymore to think, act, and even communicate creatively. Lost to my friends, I can't make easy jokes, I can't write my music anymore, I can't even complete my mathematics assignments anymore. Nothing makes sense. My mind doesn't seem to flow from place to place anymore in a sequential order. I'm not ... Read more

Last week, we discovered that 4 out of 5 teens prefer and use Facebook over the leading sugarless gum. Oh, sorry, I meant to tell that while 7 out of 10 (73% to be exact) teens use sociable networking webpages like Facebook, just 1 in 12 teens use Twitter. Clearly, the still-in-place-to-be is on Facebook and ... Read more