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After spending twelve months in a disadvantaged predominantly Black neighborhood in the Midwest to understand how African Americans perceive depression, Alang suggests that clinicians and researchers should be asking if the instruments they use to diagnose and assess depression are really valid among African Americans. She details her findings in a study called "'Black folk don't get no severe depression': Meanings and expressions of depression in a predominantly black urban neighborhood in Midwestern United States" published in  Social Science & Medicine Journal. In the study, Alang suggests that African Americans perceive depression as a weakness inconsistent with notions of strength in the community, rather than as a health condition. The study results have significant implications for the clinical assessment of depression and for the measurement of depression in community surveys. "It is impossible to effectively diagnose and treat depression a...

Adjusted imply adjustments in psychological misery, primarily based on a lady's employment standing and childcare availability. Each symptom of misery will increase considerably (pink) when childcare is tough to rearrange, and declines considerably (inexperienced) when childcare is definitely obtainable. Blue signifies the speed of every symptom for unemployed ladies. Credit score: Anna Jacobs Poor mothers who return to the workforce after a interval of unemployment undergo considerably greater charges of melancholy, nervousness and bodily signs of stress once they do not have entry to respectable childcare, in accordance with Vanderbilt sociology graduate scholar Anna Jacobs. The examine, "Employment Transitions, Baby Care Battle, and the Psychological Well being of Low-Earnings City Ladies With Youngsters," was revealed on-line June 21, and would be the Editor's Selection choice within the July/August challenge of ...

A study led by The University of Queensland (UQ) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) suggests people might need a minimum "dose of nature." UQ CEED researcher Dr Danielle Shanahan said parks offered health benefits including reduced risks of developing heart disease, stress, anxiety and depression. "If everyone visited their local parks for half an hour each week there would be seven per cent fewer cases of depression and nine percent fewer cases of high blood pressure ," she said. "Given that the societal costs of depression alone in Australia are estimated at $A12.6 billion a year, savings to public health budgets across all health outcomes could be immense," she said. UQ CEED researcher Associate Professor Richard Fuller said the research could transform the way people viewed urban parks. "We've known for a long time that visiting parks is good for our health, but we are now beginning to establish exa...

The investigators say their study is one of the first of rare genetic variations in people with bipolar disorder, which, in contrast to most previous studies of common variation, can provide a more direct insight into the biology underlying the susceptibility to bipolar disorder. And the report on the work published on June 1 in  JAMA Psychiatry , led by Fernando Goes, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, affirms the need for DNA from a vast patient population to definitively confirm the role of rare mutations identified using the most advanced genome sequencing techniques. "One thing we learned is that it will take genetic data from at least several thousand more people with bipolar disorder to confirm that these rare mutations do in fact directly cause the disease," says Goes. "We are working with the Bipolar Sequencing Consortium to gather more data and collaborators so we can definit...