WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) — Children with depression are at increased risk for bullying, the results of a new study suggest.
The finding challenges the widely held belief that bullying leads to psychological problems such as depression, according to the Arizona State University researchers.
WEDNESDAY, February 8, 2012 (Health.com) — Psychologists, not to mention parents, have long observed that kids who seem depressed tend to have trouble getting along with—and being accepted by—their peers.
What the experts haven’t been able to agree on is which comes first, the depression or the social difficulty. Most researchers have supposed that kids who are excluded or bullied become depressed as a result (rather than vice versa), while others have suggested that the two problems go hand in hand and are all but impossible to tease apart.
A new study, published this week in the journal Child Development, provides some of the strongest evidence to date for a third theory: Kids who cry easily, express negative emotions, and show other signs of depression ultimately suffer socially because they are shunned by their peers and attract the attention of bullies. Read More
MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) — Antidepressant drugs such as Prozac do not raise suicide risk in young people, a new study says.
The finding should help reassure doctors about prescribing antidepressants to youngsters, said first author Robert Gibbons, a professor of medicine, health studies and psychiatry at the University of Chicago.
By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) — Depression can be a tough condition to diagnose accurately, but new research suggests that someday a blood test might help.
It’s not clear how much the test might cost, and it needs more stringent validation before it will be ready to be used in medical offices. Still, “it appears that these results are promising, after decades of research into finding a biological test for depression,” said study author Dr. George Papakostas, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) — A warning to certain types as those Super Bowl parties approach: People with a need to please others are more likely to eat too much in social situations, a new study suggests.
“People pleasers feel more intense pressure to eat when they believe that their eating will help another person feel more comfortable,” study lead author Julie Exline, a psychologist at Case Western Reserve University, said in a university news release. “Almost everyone has been in a situation in which they’ve felt this pressure, but people pleasers seem especially sensitive to it.”
THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) — Sometimes, there’s nothing better than scratching an itch. And a new study suggests that where the itch resides is key to the pleasure derived from scratching.
The findings help improve understanding of itch and might even help folks battling itchy skin ailments, according to study author Dr. Gil Yosipovitch, a professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) — Exercise can improve the health, energy and well-being of cancer patients after they’ve completed their main cancer treatment, a new review finds.
University of Hong Kong researchers analyzed the results of 34 clinical trials that examined the effects of physical activity among adult patients with breast, prostate, gynecologic, colorectal, gastric or lung cancer.
MONDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) — Having a pet helps women with HIV/AIDS cope with their condition and may also help those with other chronic diseases, a new study says.
Researchers conducted 12 focus groups with 48 women with HIV/AIDS to find out how they stay healthy. The women, whose average age was 42, said that five social roles helped them manage their illness.
TUESDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) — Psychedelic mushrooms may point to new ways to treat depression, suggest two small brain imaging studies that seem to show how psilocybin — the active ingredient in such mushrooms — affects the brain.
One study included 30 healthy people who had psilocybin inserted into their blood while magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners measured changes in their brain activity. The scans revealed that psilocybin caused decreased activity in what the researchers described as the brain’s “hub” regions — areas especially well-connected with other areas.
FRIDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) — Patients with depression and type 2 diabetes showed more improvement when they received simultaneous treatment for both conditions, researchers report.
Their 12-week study of 180 patients found that nearly 61 percent of those who received integrated care combined with a brief program to help them adhere to their medication regimens achieved improved blood sugar test results, and almost 59 percent had a reduction in depression symptoms.
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