Despite national guidelines urging emergency department doctors to ask suicidal patients if they have access to firearms or other lethal implements, only about half actually do, according to a new study from researchers at ...
Mar 20, 2016
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A new Northwestern Medicine study was able to successfully predict if a new mother would experience worsening depressive symptoms over the first year after giving birth by identifying four maternal characteristics that put ...
Jan 16, 2019
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New research from McMaster University has found that psychiatric help for mothers with postpartum depression results in healthy changes in the brains of their babies.
Jan 21, 2021
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Most people who experience severe trauma recover their health. But 23 percent develop PTSD, a difficult-to-treat illness that combines intrusive thoughts about the trauma, avoidance of reminders of it, low mood and an exaggerated ...
Dec 12, 2019
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The area of the brain that plays a primary role in emotional learning and the acquisition of fear – the amygdala – may hold the key to who is most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jul 15, 2014
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More than half of soldiers who experience trauma also report strong psychological benefits, such as stronger intimate relationships, spiritual growth, and a greater appreciation of life because of their difficult experiences.
Apr 27, 2015
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Military sexual assault and harassment are linked to higher rates of depression among new moms and a negative effect on mother-baby bonding, according to a new study published in the journal Depression and Anxiety.
Dec 9, 2021
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Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Karolinska Institutet have found that gestational diabetes raises the risk of postpartum depression (PPD) in first-time mothers. This is the largest study ...
Jan 18, 2017
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Two new studies suggest that while individuals enrolling in the armed forces do not share the exact psychological profile as socio-demographically comparable civilians, they are more similar than previously thought.
Oct 23, 2014
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In a Depression and Anxiety study that surveyed youth following the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston marathon, adolescents with lower levels of sympathetic reactivity (the flight or fight response) before the attack developed ...
Aug 4, 2014
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