Articles on Depression

Article #1

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609083221.htm

The study was conducted by Dr. Mahmood I. Siddique, clinical associate professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. It was presented June 9, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC. The study involved 262 high school seniors with an average age of 17.7 years who were attending a public high school in Mercer County, N.J. Participant show socio-demographic characteristics using a cross-sectional survey. Too much daytime sleepiness was indicated by a score of 10 or higher on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and mood was evaluated with a validated depression scale. The results indicated that high school seniors were three times more likely to have strong depression symptoms if they had excessive daytime sleepiness.

Article#2

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802165402.htm

The study was conducted by Lawrence T. Lam, Ph.D., of the School of Medicine, Sydney, and the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia, and Zi-Wen Peng, M.Sc., of the Ministry of Education and SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, in August 2010. It will appear in the October print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.  1,041 teens in China were assessed for depression and anxiety using previously validated scales. They also completed a survey to identify pathological Internet use, including questions that reflect typical behaviors of addiction. At the beginning of the study, 62 participants  were classified as having moderately pathological use of the Internet, and 2% were severely at risk. Nine months later, the adolescents were re-assessed for anxiety and depression; 2%  had significant anxiety symptoms and 84% had developed depression. The risk of depression for those who used the Internet pathologically was about two and a half times that of those who did not. No relationship was observed between pathological Internet use and anxiety.

Article#3

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094933.htm

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College led by Dr Robert Stewar. The study consisted of a survey of over 60,000, complemented with already existent records. Researchers found that over the following 4 yearsusing the survey, the mortality risk was increased to a similar extent in people who were depressed as in people who were smokers.

The Basics of Schizophrenia

1. A person with paranoid-type scizophrenia usually has mistaken beliefs or delusions, that makes him suspect that one or more people are plotting against him or his loved ones. As a result they become socially isolated, have auditory hallucinations, and often feel tense, suspicious, guarded, and reserve.

2. A person with disorganized-type scizophrenia tends to have speech problems, he lacks of emotion and motivation, often experiences hallucinations and delusions, and shows silly behavior.

3. A person with catatonic-type schizophrenia should have the following symptoms: Stupor, excitement, posturing, negativism, rigidity, and wavy flexibility. These may cause in a person behavioral, health, and financial difficulties.

4. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include things that a normal person can't experience and are proper characteristics of the illness. Some of them are delusions, illusions, hallucinations and having nebulous thinking.

5.Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are the ones that can occur in any healthy individual in response to certain emotional or physical setback, and are not directly linked with this illness but are more secondary effects. Some of them are depression, loss of apetite, lack of concentration in activities, and violent behavior.

6. The difference between an halucination and a delusion is that the first one is a false mental image produced by misinterpretation of things that actually exist while a delusion is a persistent false belief.

7. Some cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are difficulties attending to and processing of information, understanding the environment, and in remembering simple tasks.

8.The symptom of avolition consist of a psychiatric distress characterized by a lack of motivation for doing anything. People with avolition have difficulty starting and completing tasks, and may be disinterested in what is happening around them.

9.The symptom of catatonia is basically having psychomotor disturbance, and interruption of body’s  normal movement. Catatona often occur with major depression, bipolar disorder.

10. A delusion of grandeur is when a personal has the false belief that  he or she has a special relationship with, a deity or a famous person, or has great importance, power, wealth, intellect, or ability.

11. A delusion of reference is when normal events, things, or behaviors of others have particular and unusual meaning.

12. A somatic delusion is when you believe something is wrong with you or your body when actually it is not.ith you or your body when actually it is not.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000936.htm

http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/000937sym.htm

http://organizedwisdom.com/Schizophrenia_Catatonic_Type

http://ezinearticles.com/?Differences-Between-Positive-and-Negative-Schizophrenia-Symptoms&id=5090632

http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/schizophrenia-symptoms
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/delusion