Daily routines and pressures of work very easily lead to stress. To overcome this naturally, you can try to drink Noni juice regularly. Why is that? Noni juice is very healthy because it contains bioactive substances (iridoids), as well as nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that contribute to keep the body healthy. Noni juice can ...

Depression risk should not be taken lightly, because it is closely related to human activity and life. Not only to urban population and adult people, but also in rural communities and children. Overcoming depression is not only through the psychological, medications, or activities interventions, but also through diet intervention. What is the relationship ...

Depression not only affected to adults or young adults, but the children may also experienced with this disorder. Feeling flat, tired, unmotivated, hopeless, usefulness, sleeping problems, and sad, are common among them. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of ten US adults experienced with depression or serious ...

Stress is familiar conditions among people right now. Whether caused by working environmental pressure, social factors, personal problems, and history of diseases. Several surveys has shown that occupational pressures and fear is leading cause of stress. According to NIOSH report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

In the study regarding do diet consumption of trans-unsaturated fatty acids (TFAS or trans-fats) that popular in "western diet" with high in refined or processed foods and saturated fats, the researchers from Spanish said that "cardiovascular disease and depression may share some common nutritional determinants related to subtypes of fat ...

In 1979, the researchers at the University of Massachusetts developed mindfulness therapy, a combination technique between meditation and gentle yoga postures to help people manage general stress or health problems, including chronic pain. This therapy now available throughout the world in form of an eight-week program of classes. However, for patient with ...

Ziconotide (Prialt, Elan) is a non-opioid and non-nonseteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) analgesic agent used for severe and chronic pain that was developed from marine snail toxins. Synthetic toxin of the cone snail is the active agent of this drug that acts as a selective N-type voltage-gated calcium channel blocker. In the United ...

Omega-3 fatty acids must be consumed in food (primarily fish and nuts) or supplement, because they are not synthesized by the body. The ratio of Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are 1:1 in food, but supplements can contain either fatty acid or a combination of both. A new meta analysis ...

A new suggestion said that some characteristic in tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) increased the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Referring to current documentation that tricyclics' side effects increased weight gain, blood pressure, and diabetes, therefore, current findings supports those documentation as all of them might associated with CVD risk. However, according to the ...

A new survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA, part of the National Institutes of Health) said that 20% of U.S adults had mental illness. In the report, 30% highest level of mental health occurred to young adults aged 18 to 25 years, while 13.7% among adults ...

Depression is a common and often debilitating mental disorder. A new released report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that approximately 9% of US adults meet diagnostic criteria for current depression by using the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 on the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey data from ...

As there is negative consequences of substance use disorders (SUDs) such as associated with psychiatric disorders, therefore the researchers from New York City initiated to identify its predictors. According to the researcher from New York University School of Medicine, New York City, David W. Brook, MD, and colleagues, one factor that ...

Physicians prescribing certain classes of medication should be extra vigilant if a patient is depressed or suicidal. This is because psychotropic and other prescription drugs, as well as over-the-counter medication, are frequently used in overdose suicides. This awareness about prescribing medications to physicians just presented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association 60th ...

In patients with severe mental illness, clinicians will prescribe them to antipsychotic drug that mostly had conventional agents, such as prochlorperazine, olanzapine, risperidone, trifluoperanzine, quetiapine, heloperidol, and chlorpromazine. However, from recent findings that published on September 22 in BMJ, the researchers said that significantly greater risk of developing blood clot that ...

The research of vitamin D deficiency in older adults considered fewer than in younger adults for the association with mental disorder. Despite the potential impact may influence the research more common in younger adults, however, older adults with vitamin D deficiency also at increased risk of mental disorder, particularly for depression. Published ...

Previous findings has been indicated the low levels of folate, high levels of total homocysteine (tHcy), and low vitamin B12, associated with the increased risk of depressive symptoms and depression in adults. However, the investigators did not examine interaction among those 3 risk factors and had inconsistent findings as to the ...

Although new study of antidepressant effect related to suicidal thinking said that it's rarely trigger suicidal thought or behaviors, but, other experts question the data accuracy and some other experts still weighted related to the fact of association between suicidal thinking and side effect of antidepressants. The lead researcher who write ...

For individual who had both disease of heart and depression should be careful, because recent study showed that it has multiple risk of dying than those who had only one of that disease. According to study authors that published on September 16 in Heart, Hermann Nabi, MD, from Hospital Paul-Brousse, Villejuif, ...

A new results from recent prospective cohort study published on September 6 in The Lancet said that partner violence during pregnancy strongly associated to postnatal depression. The study authors, Ana Bernarda Ludermir, PhD, from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, and colleagues found that there is positive association between frequency of ...

A new study showed that higher consumption of fish, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) could reduce depression risk symptoms in teenage boys. However, those benefits not showed in girls. According to the authors, although the association causality needed to confirm by more research, however, this might be important due to ...

In the recent multicenter study that focus on the cingulate cortex, which is important in mood disorders and has been shown to be structurally and functionally abnormal in major depressive disorder (MDD), the researchers found that the volume of the cingulate cortex might be progressively affected as MDD worsens over ...

By using a General Practice Research Database of data collected as part of patients electronic medical records from 1987 to 2002, the investigators found that for patients with psoriasis, risk for psychiatric condition may be raised. In that study, the investigator selects 5 control subjects without psoriasis from the same practices ...

Recent finding among individuals who had major depressive disorder (MDD) also experienced with subthreshold hypomania, a subclinical bipolar symptoms. According to the researchers, this findings could affect treatment decision in major depression that previously appreciated. The study authors, Julest Angst, MD, from Zurich Universtity Psychiatric Hospital, Switzerland, and colleagues, said that almost ...

A new study suggest that increased risk of suicide was not related to current antiepileptic drugs(AEDs) but most important to the illness carrier from the patients. The first study author, Alejandro Arana, MD, from Risk MR Pharmacovigilance Services in Zaragoza, Spain, and colleagues, write in The New England Journal of Medicine ...

By using Swedish national registry data, the researchers from Sweden found that most of those who successfully committed suicide used the same method as they did at the initial suicide attempt. The attempt suicide including hanging, shooting by firearm, jumping, or gassing. The study author, Bo Runeson, MD, PhD, from the ...

Post-concussion syndrome (PCS) is a symptoms related to mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) who experienced for weeks, months, or even years after concussion. There is few study and little evidence of PCS and few study in children to estimate the prevalences of PCS. However from the current study published in July ...

It was well known that smoking during pregnancy could increases the risk of infant with lower birth weight, miscarriage, and stillbirth. Moreover, according to new study reported in August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, there is significantly higher in young adult with psychiatric disorder who exposed to cigarette smoke ...

The pregnancy women should be aware that anxiety and stress may have adverse consequences to their infant. According to recent study from Netherlands, maternal prenatal anxiety and stress could linked to infant illnesses and antibiotic use during the first year of life. Study authors, Roseriet Beijers, MSc, from the Behavioral Science Institute ...

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) alone, according to recent study showed that it can not be used as the sole criteria for diagnosing diabetes and heart disease. They said that it is far less precise than Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG) test. 855 patients analyzed HbA1c, FPG, and 2-hour plasma glucose concentrations (2-h PG) by ...

Many of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) could increase the risk of depression and suicidal behavior. Those drugs included topiramate, levetiracetam, vigabatrin, and tiagabine. However, according to new research that published in July 27 issue of Neurology said that not all AEDs may increase those risks. A conventional AEDs such as barbiturates, and other newer ...