Depression News for 10/21/2009




The Great Depression repeats itself - Personal Finance blog .
Bruce Bartlett is a man of strong opinions. A supply-side economist even before the Reagan Revolution, he served in two Republican administrations and then as a policy wonk and gadfly at conservative think tanks...

Award-winning historian to discuss the Great Depression in the Student Center (KentNewsNet.com)
Lizabeth Cohen, historian and award-winning author, will speak about the Great Depression at 7:30 p.m. in Student Center Room 204. Cohen's presentation will offer insight into the current financial crisis and its relationship to history...

Depression in older cancer patients can be effectively treated with collaborative approach (EurekAlert!)
( University of Washington ) Depression in older cancer patients is very common and has debilitating effects both during and after treatment. UW researchers have shown that an intervention called "Improving Mood-Improving Access to Collaborative Treatment" doubles the likelihood that the patient's depression will improve, compared to standard treatment...

Mom Remembers the Real Depression (The Daily Reckoning)
"But you're being very silly.as usual. I remember the real depression. I was born in 1921. So, I was 8 years old during the crash of '29. Then, I was a teenager throughout the depression...

It's A Depression, Thus Sayeth The Veep « The American Catholic
During these dismal economic days, we can always rely upon the comic stylings of Joe Biden to raise our morale, just as the American public during Depression I looked to the Three Stooges for comic relief. I assume Jolly Joe in the ...

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Biden says EURœIt's a depressionEUR
Now, if he (Biden) continued to say something like that AROUND that clip about the nation being in a depression, then I'll agree wholeheartedly to SKEWER him with itEUR¦but we don't know that's what he said. Unfortunately. :( ...

GLOBAL DEPRESSION AND REGIONAL WARS
SYNOPSIS These extraordinary times--unprecedented in modern history--are marked by a worldwide depression and regional wars involving all the major imperial powers. This book exposes the roots of the crisis in the unsustainability of ...

No Benefit to Taking Omega-3 with Treatment for Depression in Patients with Heart Disease (Kansas City InfoZine)
Contrary to the findings of some studies, new research indicates that augmenting antidepressant therapy with an omega-3 fatty acid supplement does not result in improvement in levels of depression in patients with coronary heart disease...

Use Of Omega-3 With Treatment For Depression In Heart Disease Patients May Not Provide Benefit (redOrbit)
Contrary to the findings of some studies, new research indicates that augmenting antidepressant therapy with an omega-3 fatty acid supplement does not result in improvement in levels of depression in patients with coronary heart disease, according to a study in the October 21 issue of JAMA."Low dietary intake and low serum or red blood cell levels of omega-3 fatty acids are associated with ...

UW researchers suggest approaches for treating depression in older cancer patients (News-Medical-Net)
Depression in older cancer patients is very common, and has debilitating effects on their quality of life both during and after treatment. University of Washington (UW) researchers are showing that there are ways to better this situation...

Federal action prevented 2nd Great Depression -- White House (CNNMoney.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Without the bold steps taken by the federal government over the past year, the country could have fallen into a second Great Depression, said the White House's chief economic adviser...

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Omega-3 Augmentation of Sertraline in Treatment of Depression in Patients With Coronary Heart . (Journal of the American Medical Association)
Context  Studies of depressed psychiatric patients have shown that antidepressant efficacy can be increased by augmentation with omega-3 fatty acids. Objective  To determine whether omega-3 improves the response to sertraline in patients with major depression and coronary heart disease (CHD). Design, Setting, and Participants  Randomized controlled trial. Between May 2005 and December 2008, 122 ...

Hayek on Deflation and the Great Depression - The Austrian Economists
Steve Horwitz Greg Ransom has found a new book with an interview done with Hayek in 1979. In it, Hayek says the following: EURœI agree with Milton Friedman that once the Crash had occurred, the Federal Reserve System pursued a...

Use of omega-3 with treatment for depression in heart disease patients may not provide benefit (EurekAlert!)
( JAMA and Archives Journals ) Contrary to the findings of some studies, new research indicates that augmenting antidepressant therapy with an omega-3 fatty acid supplement does not result in improvement in levels of depression in patients with coronary heart disease, according to a study in the Oct. 21 issue of JAMA...

Biden: Specter Saves Nation from Depression (with his stimulus .
ABC News' Karen Travers reports: Did Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) save the nation from an economic depression? Vice President Joe Biden seems to think so. At a Democratic Party fundraiser tonight in Pittsburgh, Biden credited Specter with ...

Depression in older cancer patients can be effectively treated with collaborative approach (PhysOrg)
Depression in older cancer patients can be effectively treated with collaborative approach in primary-care settings...

Those great (staged?) Great Depression photos
In his newest multipart essay for the NY Times, Errol Morris examines evidence of photo manipulations by the photographers of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, including Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, ...

Brown: Climate Change to be worse than Depression, both World Wars .
Failure to avoid the worst effects of climate change could lead to global GDP being up to 20 per cent lower than it otherwise would be EUR an economic cost greater than the losses caused by two World Wars and the Great Depression. ...

Guest Post: Biden Says EURœIt's a Depression For Millions of .
Commentary on current economic and financial news...

New Discovery May Aid Depression Treatment | Psych Central News
A new research studies illuminates how our body regulates neurotransmitters, the chemicals that relay, amplify, and modulate signals between nerve cells...



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