Depression’s Evolutionary Roots
Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. write in Scientific American (via Theoretick): Depression seems to pose an evolutionary paradox. Research in the US and other countries estimates that...
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Machines Designed to Change Humans
I remember how my mom used to yell at my dad because he was always trying to explain how we’re being farmed. The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab creates insight into how computing products — from...
View ArticleDoes Depression = Lack of Fun?
“Real science points to one conclusion. “Modern cosmetic pharmacology focuses so heavily on eliminating depression that it entirely misses one essential point: depressed people are suffering from a...
View ArticleDepression Link to Processed Food
To the surprise of, well, hardly anyone, the BBC reports on a link between eating a lot of processed foods and depression. As if we needed any more reasons not to eat junk (for more on that see the...
View ArticleOn CNBC, Strategist Says Dollar Will be ‘Utterly Destroyed’; We Are Moving...
Wow, this was on CNBC: The dollar will get “utterly destroyed” and become “virtually worthless”, said Damon Vickers, chief investment officer of Nine Points Capital Partners. “We don’t have resources....
View ArticleSen. Byron Dorgan, Who Predicted Financial Collapse Ten Years Ago, Retiring
How easily we forget this whole mess started under a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, with the repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act in 199. Here’s Huffington Post from a few months ago...
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Today Is The Most Depressing Day Of The Year
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, you have a ready-made excuse if you were too depressed to show up for work today. In America of course, it’s Martin Luther King Day, so some people have the day off...
View ArticleAntidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?
By Irving Kirsch, Professor of Psychology at the University of Hull in the UK and author of The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, writing for the Huffington Post: Antidepressants...
View ArticleInternet Use and Depression Linked
At the risk of becoming depressed, here’s a report from the Yorkshire Evening Post on a British study tying internet use and depression (if you watched Doug Rushkoff’s excellent Frontline documentary...
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Head Case: Can Psychiatry Be A Science?
Louis Menand writes in the New Yorker: You arrive for work and someone informs you that you have until five o’clock to clean out your office. You have been laid off. At first, your family is brave and...
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Eating Chocolate Leads To Depression
Photo: André Karwath (CC) Call me strange, and many have, but I’ve never liked chocolate. I’ve never been seriously depressed, either. Now it appears there may be a link between the two, reported here...
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Using Psychedelics To Treat Depression
Ecstasy (MDMA) It’s been a long struggle, more or less since the days of Timothy Leary and Albert Hofmann in the ’60s, but doctors and scientists are finally being allowed to treat depression with some...
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Suicides In Japan Cost Economy $32bn
I would think the number one problem is that Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world, not the fact that it’s hurting the economy. BBC reports: The government in Japan says suicides and...
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Depression May Stem From Your DNA
Albrecht Dürer's 'Melencolia I' Alice Park reports on a gene that may prove to trigger depression in some people, for TIME: As powerful as genes are in exposing clues to diseases, not even the most...
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For Second Straight Year, Military Suicides Outnumber Combat Deaths
The U.S. military continues to experience a disturbingly high suicide rate, arguably the deadliest hazard that troops now face. Via Congress.org: For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has...
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Are Teens Into Music More Likely To Be Depressed?
Photo: Nishauncom Which came first, the music or the depression? They say classical music boosts your baby’s brain activity. And music has been known to soothe the savage beast. Now music may play a...
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Anti-Depressant Patients Are More Likely to Suffer Depression Relapse
Photo: Tom Varco (CC) From ScienceDaily: In a paper that is likely to ignite new controversy in the hotly debated field of depression and medication, evolutionary psychologist Paul Andrews concludes...
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40 Percent Of Europeans Have Mental Illness
The percentage will only increase, with an aging population, the stresses of modern life, et cetera, which leads to the question: What happens when the majority of the public across an entire continent...
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Marijuana Will Make You Sad (If You Are Prone To Be Depressed)?
Via Science Daily: Young people who are genetically vulnerable to depression should be extra careful about using cannabis: smoking cannabis leads to an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms....
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Fetuses Can Sense Mothers’ Psychological States, Study Indicates
Via ScienceDaily: As a fetus grows, it’s constantly getting messages from its mother. It’s not just hearing her heartbeat and whatever music she might play to her belly; it also gets chemical signals...
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