Topic: National Institute Of Mental Health
Sue Bergeson became President of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), formerly the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, in March of 2006, after serving as Vice President since August of 2000. Sue serves on the steering board of several research projects ...
"What does he have to be depressed about? Yet?when you read statistics that?suggest that 70% of all depressed children never receive treatment, its not hard to?arrive at the conclusion that childhood depression is not taken seriously enough.. A depressed child needs to ...
The high highs and low lows characteristic of manic depression make people with this mental disorder challenging to live with. Health Canada reports that many wives of manic depressive individuals mistakenly start to treat the mentally ill individual in a childlike manner. ...
The social avoidance that normally develops when a mouse repeatedly experiences defeat by a dominant animal disappears when it lacks a gene for a memory molecule in a brain circuit for social learning, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) ...
Electromagnetic Biomarker Could Minimize Trial-and-Error Prescribing . "Such biomarkers that identify who will benefit from a new class of antidepressants could someday minimize trial-and-error prescribing and speed delivery of care for what can be a life-threatening illness," said Carlos Zarate, M.D., of ...
While ketamine itself probably won't come into use as an antidepressant because of its side effects, the new finding moves scientists considerably closer to understanding how to develop faster-acting antidepressant medications - among the priorities of the National Institute of Mental Health ...
Last year, neuroscientists at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) made headlines with a surprising result. Several pharmaceutical companies are already developing compounds that target this mechanism, one of which will be tested at the NIMH within the next few months. ...