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... reduce relapse and recurrence of major depressive disorder (MDD), whether or not pharmacotherapy was continued, researchers found in a systematic review and meta-analysis.
....and more health care resource use than those without depression, according to an analysis of survey data presented in a poster at Psych Congress 2020.
University of Arizona investigators designed the study to explore whether reliance on smartphones precedes symptoms of depression and loneliness, or whether the reverse is true.
Five of 6 anti-inflammatory agents were associated with improved depression scores in patients taking antidepressants, compared with adjunctive placebo.
The estimated prevalence of using medications with depression as an adverse effect is 37.2%, according to a study published in the June 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
...according to a study published in the June 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers examined data on 421 people who participated in nine previously completed short-term experiments testing the benefits of music therapy on its own or added to traditional interventions for depression.
Overall, the analysis found patients felt less depressed when music was added to their treatment regimen, according to the analysis in the Cochrane Library. Music therapy also appeared to help ease anxiety and improve functioning in depressed individuals, and it appeared just as safe as traditional treatments.
“We can now be more confident that music therapy in fact improves patients’ symptoms and functioning, and that this finding holds across a variety of settings, countries, types of patients, and types of music therapy,” said senior study author Christian Gold of Uni Research Health in Bergen, Norway.
Mental Health | Engaging in just one hour of leisure-time physical activity per week can reduce your risk of future depression,…according to a new study—which is the largest and most extensive of its kind to date. This paper, “Exercise and the Prevention of Depression: Results of the HUNT Cohort Study,” was published online in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
The findings of this study suggest that surprisingly small amounts of low-intensity physical activity (60 minutes of exercise per week, without becoming breathless or sweating) can protect against future depression, regardless of age or gender.
This international research team was led by the Black Dog Institute in Australia who conducted an in-depth analysis of the Health Study of Nord-Trøndelag County (HUNT study) which is one of the largest and most comprehensive population-based health surveys ever undertaken. HUNT involved 33,908 male and female Norwegian adults who had their levels of exercise and symptoms of depression and anxiety monitored over an 11-year period.
The latest findings that just 60 minutes of easy exercise per week can act as a prophylaxis against future depression adds to a growing body of evidence that small doses of physical activity can reap huge psychological and physical health benefits.
For example, an August 2017 Tufts-led study found that inactive older adults who added just 48 minutes of moderate physical activity per week (in the form of walking-based exercises) significantly lowered their risk for major mobility disability. Additionally, anything above 48 minutes of moderate exercise per week was a tipping point associated with improvements in overall physical functioning when compared to adults who were sedentary.
At the beginning of the HUNT study, all participants were asked to report their frequencyof weekly exercise and their degree of aerobic intensity without becoming breathless or sweating, becoming breathless and sweating, or exhausting themselves.
During the follow-up stage of the study, participants completed a self-report questionnaire (the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) to indicate any emerging anxiety or depression over the years.
Notably, the researchers found that people did not have to become breathless, sweaty, or exhaust themselves to reap psychological benefits from exercise. In fact, the authors observed that low levels of aerobic intensity were just as effective as moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in terms of protecting against future depression.
This may be the first time that behavioral and neurobiological differences associated with microbial composition in healthy humans have been identified.