Prevalence and correlates of PTSD among high school students after the earthquake disaster in the City of Bam, Iran.
INTRODUCTION Earthquake and its consequences present a major public health problem. Like other natural disasters, often without warning, they strike quickly, and are uncontrollable, affecting large population and leaving injury, death, and destruction subsequently. After earth quick, with the loss of loved ones and livelihood, survivors are...

Measuring learned resourcefulness in college students: factor structure of the self-control schedule (SCS).
Rosenbaum's Self-Control Schedule (SCS) has been used as a unidimensional measure of Learned Resourcefulness (LR) in previous research. In this study we clarified the factor structure of the SCS among college students (N = 583) by conducting a principal axis factor analysis with oblique (Oblimin) rotation on the SCS....

Depression During Pregnancy Can Double Risk of Preterm Delivery.
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Depressed pregnant women have twice the risk of preterm delivery than pregnant women with no symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The study is published online in the Oxford University Press's journal Human Reproduction...

Mom can increase her child's risk of depression via nurture alone: new study suggests fathers don't have the same influence.
Some youngsters get depressed in the absence of any genetic legacy, a new investigation finds. Researchers report that having a depressed mother substantially ups a teenager's likelihood of becoming depressed, even if he or she was adopted and shares no genes with the mother. This...

Is Financial Crisis the Reason for Your Back Pain? Leading Pain Doctor Says Talking, Walking, Laughing and Sex Can Help.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Is Wall Street to blame for your back pain? If you've been suffering from back, neck or shoulder pain lately, much of it could be a direct result of the financial crisis gripping the world, says pain specialist Norman Marcus, M.D.,...

Forest Laboratories, Inc. Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2009 Earnings per Share of $0.80.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. , an international pharmaceutical manufacturer and marketer, today announced that fully diluted earnings per share equaled $0.80 in the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Reported earnings per share in the September 2007 quarter were $0.71. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001011/FORESTLOGO )...

Clint Eastwood Honored by the Thalians.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-14 October 2008-Clint Eastwood Honored by the Thalians(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The award will be presented to Eastwood at The Thalians Ball, an evening which raises funds for the Thalians Mental Health Center at Cedars Sinai Hospital. The annual gala is co-hosted by...

The methylation, neurotransmitter, and antioxidant connections between folate and depression.
Abstract Depression is common--one-fourth of the U.S. population will have a depressive episode sometime in life. Folate deficiency is also relatively common in depressed people, with approximately one-third of depressed individuals having an outright deficiency. Folate is a water-soluble B-vitamin necessary for the proper biosynthesis of the...

Benzodiazepines for major depression.
The Problem You have a patient with major depression. Symptoms include anxiety and insomnia. You prescribe an antidepressant and consider immediate augmentation with a benzodiazepine, but you are worried about the possibility that benzodiazepines could worsen the depression. The Question Do benzodiazepines aid...

Recognizing depression in adolescents.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dealing with the onset of depression is a trying time for any individual, but for adolescents, depression is more likely to lead to suicidal thoughts. Dr. John Constantino and Dr. Richard Todd attribute this to the fact that "adolescence is a time of identity formation...