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Internet Addicts More Prone to Depression

Internet addicts who devote much of their lives to browsing the Web are more likely to show signs of depression, British researchers have found.

“The Internet now plays a huge part in modern life, but its benefits are accompanied by a darker side,” lead study author Catriona Morrison, of the University of Leeds, said in a university news release.

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Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 25, 2010

Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

This study will evaluate an investigational bipolar depression medication. Candidates must be aged 10 to 17 and have had symptoms of bipolar depression for at least the past four weeks.

Bipolar Depression (Ages 10-17)

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Stress, Anxiety Can Up Risk of Depression in Pregnancy

Stress, history of depression, lack of social support and unintended pregnancy are among the major factors that contribute to increased risk of depression in pregnant women, a new study shows.

The study appears in the January issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Other important factors are maternal anxiety, domestic violence and having public insurance coverage, said the University of Michigan researchers, who reviewed 159 studies conducted between 1980 and 2008.

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Exercise, green tea may lessen breast cancer blues

Depression is a major health issue for breast cancer survivors, but new research hints that regular exercise and drinking green tea may help.

They examined depression-related factors in 1,399 Chinese women who were 54 years old on average and treated for breast cancer in Shanghai, China between April 2002 and December 2006.

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New Approaches Could Bring Better Depression Treatments

Theres been some bad news over the past couple of days for Americans battling depression.

Why — with depression such a widespread problem, and billions invested in the research and development of new treatments — are so many people still suffering?

On Monday, a report in the Archives of General Psychiatry

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Severely Depressed Gain Most from Antidepressants

Antidepressants seem to be most effective for the people with the most severe symptoms, new research suggests.

But the findings are not actually that surprising, said one expert, and dont necessarily mean that people with mild-to-moderate depression should not try antidepressants.

Individuals with mild-to-moderate symptoms may fare no better on antidepressants than on a placebo, say the authors of a new analysis published in the Jan.

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Antidepressants do little for mild cases: study

Patients with mild or moderate depression may benefit little from antidepressant medications and may be better treated with alternatives, researchers said Tuesday.

Their study, which sought to compare the benefits of commonly prescribed antidepressants compared to placebos, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Feeling old and blue? Green tea may help

Elderly men and women who sip on several cups of green tea a day may be less likely to have the blues, hint findings of a study from Japan.

Several prior studies have linked green tea consumption to reduced levels of psychological distress. This led Niu and colleagues to look at associations between drinking green tea and symptoms of depression in 1,058 relatively healthy elderly individuals.

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Facing combat ups depression risk in troops

Perhaps its not surprising, but in the Air Force, combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan increases the risk of depression, according to a new study.

Those who experienced combat had the highest rate of new diagnoses of depression - about 6 percent for men and about 16 percent for women. That compared with about 4% of men and about 8 percent of women who were not deployed, and about 2 percent of men and 5 percent of women who did not face combat.

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Antidepressants May Change Your Personality

Taking antidepressants may not only help alleviate depression, but could make you more extraverted and less neurotic, new research suggests.

Becoming more extraverted and less neurotic may help prevent a relapse of depression, said lead study author Tony Tang, an adjunct professor of psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

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