What exactly are the links between alcohol and depression?
A number of studies have shown links between abuse of alcohol and depression. Yet, it's been unsure whether one condition leads to another, or whether the same underlying environmental or hereditary risk factor will increase risk for both.
Now a study ...Continue Reading... 
Postpartum depression statistics from 3 US states show that almost twelve percent of women had said to be moderately depressed following childbirth, and six percent had said to be very depressed following childbirth.
Depression in moms in their months following childbirth has come up as a major maternal and child ...Continue Reading... 
Exactly how people become depressed still remains a mystery, and “is depression hereditary” has become a common question asked by those with depression.
Experts largely agree that the origins of depression could be caused by a mixture of genetic and other reasons such as stress, and that our genes help determine ...Continue Reading... 
Bipolar disorder is a debilitating and serious illness where sufferers have severe mood swings between depression and mania. The low or high mood episodes can go on for days or even months, and suicide risk is high.
Antidepressants are commonly used as a bipolar depression treatment, but they're not generally effective. ...Continue Reading... 
Researchers have found a means of checking which women are most at risk of postnatal depression by checking for certain genetic variants. The results could lead to the creation of an easy, accurate blood test that determines the chance of developing postnatal depression.
About 1 in 7 women that give birth experience ...Continue Reading... 
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression Study 1
Cognitive behavioral therapy seems to be comparable to antidepressants for reducing the chance of relapse or recurrence in people that have already been successfully treated for depression.
Researchers observed 160 subjects with major depressive disorder and ...Continue Reading... 
Research has confirmed that the consumption of commercially baked goods such as croissants, donuts and fairy cakes, as well as fast food such as pizza, hotdogs and hamburgers is associated with depression.
The study results show that people who consume fast food on a regular basis have a 51 percent more chance of ...Continue Reading... 
The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale is a widely used depression screening tool used to rate the level of depression in patients with diagnosed depressive disorders.
The Zung Depression Scale is provided on this site as a self-administered online depression test. There are 20 multiple choice questions which are ...Continue Reading... 
SAMe (S-Adenosylmethionine), a commonly used dietary supplement, is a substance that can be found in almost every human cell. SAMe helps produce as well as break down chemicals such as dopamine and serotonin in the brain.
Some double-blind, placebo-controlled studies on SAMe for depression have indicated that SAMe ...Continue Reading... 
Exercise for depression has become an effective alternative to the numerous other depression treatments. The results from many studies support the idea that exercise improves mood in people with mild to moderate depression.
By reviewing the results from 51 different exercise for depression studies, it was revealed ...Continue Reading... 
