Exercise And Depression

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Physical exercises are easy as a pie. They are free of charge. They are funny. They are healthy. They do not have side effects. They help to prevent possible depression. Moreover your beloved can keep you a company.
What is the reverse of the coin? There isn’t any! The abundant evidence of research [...]

Depression and Nutrition

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The food affects the human’s mood. Some products have an influence on production of chemical agents in brain. These agents determine our mood and behavior.
The most influence on our mood has carbohydrates. Getting into the body, they start a range of chemical reactions, at which point a great number of tryptophan gets the brain. The [...]

Medicine change by depression

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Modern depression medicines are considered very efficacious, but they help not everybody. In serious cases antidepressants are not able to relieve symptoms, at least by half patients. A large number of them still experience melancholy, adynamia, hopelessness and apathy even after intense treatment.
According to statistics, about 15% of Americans suffer from one or another [...]

Diseases and depression

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Nowadays more than ever a lot of people ask for help regarding depression. On the one hand it’s quite good, because many people know that such state does not disappear in itself, but it needs a treatment. On the other hand doctors are worried about the growth of this disorder, as well as about the [...]

Antidepressants: mechanisms of action

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

How do antidepressants work?
If do not go into details, antidepressants are able to correct the work of some mechanisms of the brain. Our brain includes a lot of nerve cells – neurons. Although there is a communication between neurons, they do not adjoin each other – there is a chink between them, which is [...]

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Seasonal depression, often called seasonal affective disorder (SAD) – is a variant of iterant (recurring) depressions. These are depressions which are developing in fall or winter with certain regularity – yearly for at least three years.
Seasonal affective disorder can have the same symptoms as a depression, which are not connected with the certain season. It [...]