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Hillary Clinton's New Platform Is A Blow To Mental Health Stigma
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton released a wide-ranging mental health plan on Monday, saying that her office would support Americans living with mental health issues through better legislation. “The next generation must grow up knowing that mental health is a key component of overall health and there is no shame, stigma or barriers to seeking out care,” Clinton’s campaign stressed in an announcement. Of course, candidate platforms rarely remain intact if they actually become policy after election day, but Clinton’s focus on normalizing mental health treatment reflects growi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ceftriaxone pretreatment reduces the propensity of postpartum depression following stroke during pregnancy in rats
Conclusions Taken together, our results suggested that ceftriaxone pretreatment before brain ischemia during pregnancy may reduce the propensity for the development of PPD by preventing the loss of GLT-1 expression in the mPFC.
Source: Neuroscience Letters - August 23, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Yoga Saved My Life: My Journey From Worrier To Warrior
A year ago today I went blind. Nine days after the birth of my daughter, my brain began to bleed and I awoke in the Intensive Care Unit-I had suffered a stroke. My left side function had been compromised, my vision was blurred, and the hope of being home for my brand new baby was shattered. Before the bleed I was a healthy and happy 34-year-old woman, after the bleed I became someone I could not even recognize. After two weeks my vision slowly returned, the swelling in my brain had not disappeared; but diminished, and I was released to go home and attempt to resume a new kind of normal as a Stroke Survivor. I was sent ho...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Needs of Internally Displaced Women and Children in Baghdad, Karbala, and Kirkuk, Iraq
Conclusions The vulnerability of this population is great, and the emotional trauma of multiple displacements, kidnapping and deaths from intentional violence is great. While some aid is reaching families, much more is needed. Though Iraq is a middle income country, reaching the IDPs in central Iraq will take much more in international assistance than is currently being received. Unfortunately, at this time of great need, assistance is being cut back throughout the region because of lack of funding.10 The local civil society organizations which have sprung up in many locations to assist IDPs, offer an avenue for targeting ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gilbert Burnham Source Type: research

Brain Structural and Vascular Anatomy Is Altered in Offspring of Pre-Eclamptic Pregnancies: A Pilot Study HEAD & NECK
CONCLUSIONS: This study is the first to report brain structural and vascular anatomic alterations in the population of offspring of pre-eclamptic pregnancies. Brain structural alterations shared similarities with those seen in autism. Vascular alterations may have preceded these structural alterations. This pilot study requires further validation with a larger population to provide stronger estimates of brain structural and vascular outcomes among the offspring of pre-eclamptic pregnancies.
Source: American Journal of Neuroradiology - May 12, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Rätsep, M. T., Paolozza, A., Hickman, A. F., Maser, B., Kay, V. R., Mohammad, S., Pudwell, J., Smith, G. N., Brien, D., Stroman, P. W., Adams, M. A., Reynolds, J. N., Croy, B. A., Forkert, N. D. Tags: HEAD & amp; NECK Source Type: research

No such thing as baby brain, study argues
Conclusion The researchers conclude that although the pregnant women reported memory problems, these did not show up on their tests. However, this does not take into account their pre-pregnancy ability. The women may have performed better before they got pregnant, which is why they are now reporting memory problems. None of these women were tested before they got pregnant, which is the major limitation of the study. The researchers say that because there were a similar number of students in each group, the women in the control group was a good enough representation of how the pregnant women would have performed pre-pregna...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mental health Neurology Pregnancy/child Source Type: news

Depression: It's Not Just in Your Head, It's Also in Your Genes
This study demonstrated shorter telomeres in daughters of moms who had depression and greater hormonal reactivity to stress in these girls. When the girls were followed until age 18, 60 percent of those in the high-risk group developed depression, a condition that was not evident when they were first studied. The telomere was a biomarker, an individual hallmark that a person is at higher risk for an illness -- in this case for depression. We already knew that shortened telomeres were a risk factor for chronic, physical diseases but now the evidence is emerging for its likely role in depression. Should you go out and get ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Gender-Linked Stem Cell Alterations in Stroke and Postpartum Depression.
Abstract Stroke is a significant unmet clinical need. The current stroke treatment of tissue plasminogen activator is limited to the very acute 4.5 h after disease onset which benefits only less than 3% of ischemic stroke patients. Our overarching hypothesis advances the notion that gender, which has been established as a comorbidity factor of stroke, plays a key role in regenerative medicine, in particular stem cell therapy. We hypothesize that gender is a key factor in culture-induced stemness of adult stem cells. Our goal is to provide new evidence supporting gender effects on stroke and stem cells for the pur...
Source: CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics - November 15, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Pabón MM, Ji XM, Fernandez JW, Borlongan CV Tags: CNS Neurosci Ther Source Type: research

We Are Our Shadows
The same year the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize, 1989, I had my first panic attack. It was my freshman year in college and in the midst of hip-hop, frozen yogurt and scrunchies, I was celebrating independence from my parents for the first time but struggling academically. I had never defined myself as anxious, nervous or worried. Instead I was the girl who doesn't worry about anything. That's how my family had always described me, and I played the part well. As I stood in the emergency room breathing into a bag, doctors urging me to go on medication for my anxiety, I began to question my own sanity. These panic att...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A pilot controlled trial of a combination of dense cranial electroacupuncture stimulation and body acupuncture for post-stroke depression
Conclusions: These results indicate that DCEAS could be effective in reducing stroke patients' depressive symptoms. Superficial electrical stimulation in n-CEA group may be beneficial in improving movement disability of stroke patients. A combination of DCEAS and body acupuncture can be considered a treatment option for neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke.Trial registration: www.clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01174394.
Source: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine - July 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sui-Cheung ManBen HungRoger NgXiao-Chun YuHobby CheungMandy FungLeonard LiKwok-Pui LeungKei-Pui LeungKevin TsangEric ZieaVivian WongZhang-Jin Zhang Source Type: research

Late pregnancy use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors is associated with increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage
Commentary on: Palmsten K, Hernández-Díaz S, Huybrechts KF, et al.. Use of antidepressants near delivery and risk of postpartum hemorrhage: cohort study of low income women in the USA. BMJ 2013;347:f4877. Implications for research and practice Use of antidepressant medication is associated with increased risk for postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Further research is needed to establish a causal role between antidepressant medication use and PPH. Clinicians should be aware of possible increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage when treating depression during pregnancy. Context Antidepressant medications are commonly...
Source: Evidence-Based Nursing - June 17, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Ananth, C. V., Friedman, A. M. Tags: GI bleeding, Health policy, Midwifery, Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Stroke, Obesity (nutrition), Pregnancy, Reproductive medicine, Child and adolescent psychiatry (paedatrics), Child health, Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD), Child and adolescen Source Type: research

Early mother-infant relationships after cardiac surgery in infancy
Conclusions Most mothers report a positive relationship with their infant following cardiac surgery but almost a quarter have difficulties forming a strong emotional tie. Clinical care (including prenatal) of the infant with congenital heart disease requiring surgery should include screening, assessment and appropriate referral for early intervention if mothers are struggling to form a bond with their infant.
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - June 12, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jordan, B., Franich-Ray, C., Albert, N., Anderson, V., Northam, E., Cochrane, A., Menahem, S. Tags: Congenital heart disease, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Stroke, Pregnancy, Reproductive medicine, Child and adolescent psychiatry (paedatrics), Mood disorders (including depression), Screening (epidemiology), Screening (public health) Original article Source Type: research

Peripartum antidepressant use is associated with an increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage
Commentary on: Palmsten K, Hernández-Díaz S, Huybrechts KF, et al.. Use of antidepressants near delivery and risk of postpartum hemorrhage: cohort study of low income women in the United States. BMJ 2013;347:f4877. Context Increased incidence of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is reported in a number of high-resource settings since the 1990s. The increase appears unrelated to factors such as rising rates of caesarean sections or increasing maternal age.1 Recent studies have investigated the association between antidepressant use at different stages of pregnancy and PPH, with two studies demonstrating a 1.20-fol...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - March 19, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Ford, J. B., Morris, J. M. Tags: EBM Aetiology, Health policy, Epidemiologic studies, Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Stroke, Pregnancy, Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD), Child and adolescent psychiatry, Mood disorders (including depression), Drugs: musculoskeletal and joint dise Source Type: research

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