Drugs for the treatment of serious depression and addiction may result from new understandings of the competing effects of serotonin-producing nerve fibres in mice.
A 40-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide on Sunday by jumping off the 19th floor of a residential building in Bengaluru city as she was suffering from depression, said police.
Antidepressant use during pregnancy may combine with inflammation to heighten the risk of lifelong neurodevelopmental changes in babies' brains, such as those linked to autism, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
The symptoms of depression in adolescents, say experts, can differ from the adult population with adolescents tending to have more frequently somatic symptoms, anxiety, disruptive behaviour and personality disorders
Patients with treatment-resistant depression have a 23 per cent higher risk of death than other depressed patients. They also have twice as much outpatient care and spend three times the number of days in inpatient care. These are findings of a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry by resea
"Depression over East-central and adjoining Southeast Arabian Sea lay centred at 2330 hrs IST of yesterday, the 14th December 2022 near latitude 13.80N and longitude 68.70E about 530 km northwest of Aminidivi (Lakshadweep), about 580 km west-southwest of Panjim (Goa)," Tweeted India Meteorol
The Depression (remnant of the cyclonic storm "Mandous" pronounced as "Man-Dous") over north Tamil Nadu moved nearly west-southwestwards during the past six hours, weakened further and lay as a Low-Pressure area over north interior Tamil Nadu and neighbourhood on Saturday evening.
As the deep depression over southwest and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm Mandous, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday morning issued an alert for north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and south Andhra Pradesh coasts.
According to IMD the deep depression over the southwest and adjoining south-east Bay of Bengal is very likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify gradually into a cyclonic storm and reach the southwest Bay of Bengal, north Tamil Nadu Puducherry and adjoining South Andhra Pradesh coast
Coastal areas in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh is expected to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall along with wind gusting upto 90 kms per hours as depression along the Andaman sea to develop into cyclonic storm