Specifically, 22% of those who had depression went on to develop dementia compared to 17% of those who did not have depression.
The researchers said that if GPs evaluated people who might have depression over two appointments instead of one their diagnostic accuracy rate would rise to 90%.
From a practical standpoint, people with depression should be treated, and those who have depression later in life should also be screened for dementia by a neurologist, Isaacson said.
Mr. DEUTSCH: Just as we had irrational exuberance a couple of years ago in terms of capital flowing into the markets, I think you have irrational depression now where investors have a, you know, very pessimistic view, whether that's founded or unfounded, until there is some trigger mechanism to turn the tide.
"We have figures to show that poorer countries have actually more depression compared to richer countries and even poor people in rich countries have a high incidence of depression compared to the richer people in the same countries, " says Dr Saxena.
There will be considerable backslapping and mutual self-congratulation that they have prevented Depression 2.0.
The body of Karen Simpson, who was known to have postnatal depression (PND), was found yesterday.
"Apple doesn't have a depression-era mentality, " he said in response to criticism that Apple is hoarding its money.
But, for kids who have psychosis, kids who have suicidal depression.
The students who were excessively sleepy during the day were three times more likely to have strong depression symptoms than their well-rested peers, Dr. Siddique and his colleagues found.
Madeleine Wohlreich , a clinical research physician at Lilly, notes that in company-run studies, patients on Cymbalta were 112% more likely to have their depression vanish than those who were on placebo.
In Nigeria, a quarter of patients seen in local health centres have significant depression symptoms yet few are diagnosed and only one in six of those who are diagnosed get treatment of any kind.
It turns out that the more family members you have who have been found to have major depression, anxiety disorders, or drug or alcohol dependence, the greater the chances that you will too, according to Terrie E.
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Some researchers have suggested that depression in an adaptive mechanism to address severe psychological stress.
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After his presidential-election defeat by Mitterrand in 1988, Mr Chirac was reported to have fallen into depression.
Although BMI is an imperfect indicator of health, studies have shown that depression and BMI are linked.
It showed that people with Alzheimer's were twice as likely to have suffered from depression when they were younger.
Mr Templeton, who was known to have suffered from depression, had returned from Paris a month before he went missing.
Of course, hurricane season starts June 1st and we still have a tropical depression -- the second named storm of the season.
The Family Caregiver Alliance estimates that 30% to 59% of caregivers have symptoms of depression, which can lead to more health problems.
First off, most definitely your son's condition is not the "new normal, " although sadly rates of depression have been rising in young people worldwide.
The National Center on Caregiving estimates that 40% to 70% of caregivers have symptoms of depression, which can lead to more health problems.
For example, India has almost half the suicide rate of America, and rising rates of depression have accompanied generally increasing wealth, comfort and freedom in the West.
Yet he has managed to cobble together a string of sensible and useful policies that have guided the country away from what would surely have been a depression.
Not since the Depression have Australians rejected a first-term government.
At an animal hotel, Babe falls in with a circus family of monkeys, including a hip chimpanzee couple and a morose orangutan the animals, who speak in dark ironies, have the real depression of lifetime circus performers.
So in terms of practical advice, rather than trying to tackle all your difficult problems at once, I'd recommend seeing your doctor so that he or she can evaluate whether you indeed have developed a depression.
What I find really amazing is that if you have a parent or a sibling with bipolar disorder you are about twice as likely to have regular old depression as you are to come down with bipolar disorder.
Those who were unwell and worried, those who attend regularly (who often have anxiety or depression), and those who had no paid work were the groups who expressed a strongest wish for good listening and communication skills from their doctor.
They have more stress, greater depression, and are more likely to have an external locus of control, which means that they believe that they are controlled by external events rather than vice-versa.
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