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12 February 2008



Insomnia often untreated in patients with mental disorders

Tuesday, 12 February 2008 9:31 A GMT+01
Patients with insomnia who are diagnosed with accompanying mental health ailments often are not prescribed medication that will help them sleep - which could then make related anxiety or depression worse, new research suggests.
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War and PTSD

Tuesday, 12 February 2008 9:27 A GMT+01
Stark evidence of the mental health risks facing troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan has come from a large American study, unusual for the fact that it did not depend on retrospective report.

Hostility plus depression increases heart disease risk

Tuesday, 12 February 2008 9:25 A GMT+01
Researchers report that hostility and depression appear to act together in a complex way to elevate inflammatory proteins in the human body, possibly putting hostility plus depression on the list of risk factors for heart disease
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Adolescent mood disorder patients have enlarged pituitary glands

Tuesday, 12 February 2008 9:17 A GMT+01
MedWire News: Adolescent patients with bipolar disorder and unipolar depression show enlargements in pituitary gland volume on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans relative to mentally healthy controls, a small study has demonstrated.

Abstract: Difference in treatment outcome in outpatients with anxious versus nonanxious depression

Tuesday, 12 February 2008 9:14 A GMT+01
About half of outpatients with major depressive disorder have clinically meaningful levels of anxiety. The authors conducted a secondary data analysis to compare antidepressant treatment outcomes for patients with anxious and nonanxious depression

Abstract: SSRIs and other antidepressants and risk of bone fracture

Tuesday, 12 February 2008 9:09 A GMT+01
Our aim was to study fracture risk in users of various antidepressants (tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and the group of other antidepressants