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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Check out this study showing that depression negatively impacts productivity at work and that treatment of depression can improve performance and productivity at work. Another important point is that for many people, feeling like you are doing a good job at work can be a source of satisfaction that can help maintain a more positive mood.
If you are feeling down or depressed, effective treatment for depression including counseling and psychopharmacological treatment is available.
Excerpts from Study:
A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH (in Canada) has found that employees with depression who receive treatment while still working are significantly more likely to be highly productive than those who do not. This is the first study of its kind to look into a possible correlation between treatment and productivity.
People who experienced a depressive episode were significantly less likely to be highly productive, the study showed. “We expected this, as past research has found that depression has adverse effects on comprehension, social participation, and day-to-day-functioning,” said Dr. Carolyn Dewa, Head of CAMH’s Centre for Research on Employment and Workplace Health and lead author.
“What’s exciting is we found that treatment for depression improves work productivity. People who had experienced a moderate depressive episode and received treatment were 2.5 times more likely to be highly productive compared with those who had no treatment,” she says. “Likewise, people who experienced severe depression were seven times more likely to be high-performing than those who had no treatment.”
via CAMH: Study finds that treatment of depression can increase work productivity.
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Deep brain stimulation (DSB) involves placement of a tiny electrode in a region of interest in the brain. DBS has been used for more than a decade to treat Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. More recently, it also has shown promise for treating symptoms of depression and possibly bipolar disorder when other treatments have not been effective.
For most people, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology will be the best option for depression treatment but for those with intractable depression, the future may include DBS as a treatment option.
Excerpt from report:
A new study provides additional data on the safety and long-term efficacy of subcallosal cingulate SCC deep brain simulation DBS in patients with treatment-resistant depression, including those with bipolar disorder.
Results show that after 2 years of long-term stimulation, there was a 92% response rate and 58% remission rate in 12 patients in the study. No patient who achieved remission had a spontaneous depressive relapse.
Published online January 2, Archives of General Psychiatry via More Good News on Deep Brain Stimulation in Depression.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Change is hard. And, big changes can be especially hard to make and to maintain. So, if you are going to make a resolution for the New Year, think of something small that you would like to change and set a realistic goal.
By setting unrealistic goals, we set ourselves up for failure and can even make ourselves feel worse than we did before we set the goals. So, before you create a list of New Year’s resolutions to ring in 2012, try to think of just one small change that you would like to make AND that you think you can maintain for the long haul.
For example, rather than putting yourself through another all-out diet that will likely be difficult to maintain, choose a small change in your diet that can lead to better health. Giving up sugary beverages like soda might be a good option that could be maintained over time (and that likely would result in a marked reduction in caloric and sugar intake).
And, of course, if you want to make greater changes in your life for 2012, working with a psychologist and behavioral specialist can be a great option. Change is hard, but you don’t have to do it alone.
Good luck!
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011
A new study investigating the effectiveness of anti-depressant medications found that while most people showed improvement in symptoms of depression, some actually showed increasing symptoms.
The researchers suspected that for those who did not benefit from medication, the unpleasant side effects of the medications, such as sleep disturbance, might explain why some participants felt worse after using the medication.
The research highlights the need for an individualized approach to treatment of depression and other behavioral health issues. One size does not fit all. For many, psychotherapy and counseling will be the best option.
If you or a loved one suffer from symptoms of depression or another emotional issue, help is available. To learn more about treatment options, call us at 617-259-1895.
Excerpt:
Up to a fifth of patients being treated for depression with some medications may do worse than those given a placebo, according to a U.S. study.The findings, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, highlight the importance of quickly identifying how patients respond to certain drugs, said lead author Ralitza Gueorguieva, at the Yale University School of Health.
“Identifying variables that are associated with response is a very important question that we havent quite tackled,” she said.
via Some depressed people do worse on drugs: study | Reuters.
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
With winter approaching, the days are getting much shorter. That means we are being exposed to less sunlight than we are during the summer months. Reduced exposure to sunlight is thought to result in changes in mood and can lead to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – a form of depression resulting from the low-sunlight seasons.
For some, simply using light boxes that mimic exposure to sunlight can help minimize or combat SAD. However, for many people the light boxes will not provide sufficient relief from SAD. And, for many people, the cause of their depression might not be SAD. For those people, depression treatments such as psychotherapy and counseling and/or psychopharmacology may be needed.
If you struggle with depression or sadness, help is available. Call us or complete our online intake form to learn more.
Excerpt from New York Times article:
For the millions of Americans who suffer from mild to severe winter blues — a condition called seasonal affective disorder, or S.A.D. — bright-light therapy is the treatment of choice, with response rates comparable with those of antidepressants. “Your natural clock is usually longer than 24 hours, and you need light in the morning to set it and keep it on track,” said Dr. Alfred Lewy, a professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University and an expert on seasonal depression and light therapy.
Yet many experts think light therapy is underused, given its affordability and relative lack of side effects, in large part because there is little profit to be made from it and no commercial incentive to promote the treatment.
Patients generally sit in front of the light box, which can be as small as 9 by 11 inches and 5 inches deep, with the bright light emanating from the square surface, in the morning. “With the natural dawn being later in winter, the body rhythms drift late,” Dr. Lewy said. “If you can fix the drift, you can fix the depression.”
via Light Boxes May Help Melt Those Winter Blues – NYTimes.com.
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Did you know that there are psychologists who specialize in using psychological methods to teach clients to manage their pain on their own? If you are one of the thousands of people who suffer from acute or chronic pain, working with a health psychologist who specializes in pain management might help. At CPA, we offer pain management services including biofeedback training, stress management and reduction training and cognitive behavioral therapy. Visit the page of our health psychologist and pain specialist, Anna Cassel, Ph.D. to learn more. Dr. Cassel is offering services in Newton, MA and also in the Financial District, Boston.
Check out more information below from WebMD.
Psychological therapy may be part of your pain treatment plan.
When you are in pain, it is natural to feel angry, sad, hopeless, and/or depressed. Pain can alter your personality, disrupt your sleep, and interfere with your work and relationships. But, it doesn’t have to. Psychological treatment provides a safe, non-drug method to treat your pain directly by reducing high levels of physiological stress that often aggravate pain. Psychological treatment also helps improve the indirect consequences of pain by helping you learn how to cope with the problems associated with pain.
A large part of psychological treatment for pain is education, helping sufferers acquire skills to manage a very difficult problem.
via Psychological Therapy for Stress-Related Pain Management.
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Laughing with others makes us all feel better – we experience a momentary elevation in our mood and our sense of feeling relaxed. But, scientists have long wondered why that is so. A recent series of psychological studies has illuminated some of the reasons laughter is good for us. And, our brains are behind it all.
Check out this excerpt from the NY Times. Link to full article is below.
Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good.
The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, is not the intellectual pleasure of cerebral humor, but the physical act of laughing. The simple muscular exertions involved in producing the familiar ha, ha, ha, he said, trigger an increase in endorphins, the brain chemicals known for their feel-good effect.
His results build on a long history of scientific attempts to understand a deceptively simple and universal behavior. “Laughter is very weird stuff, actually,” Dr. Dunbar said. “That’s why we got interested in it.” And the findings fit well with a growing sense that laughter contributes to group bonding and may have been important in the evolution of highly social humans.
Social laughter, Dr. Dunbar suggests, relaxed and contagious, is “grooming at a distance,” an activity that fosters closeness in a group the way one-on-one grooming, patting and delousing promote and maintain bonds between individual primates of all sorts.
In five sets of studies in the laboratory and one field study at comedy performances, Dr. Dunbar and colleagues tested resistance to pain both before and after bouts of social laughter. The pain came from a freezing wine sleeve slipped over a forearm, an ever tightening blood pressure cuff or an excruciating ski exercise.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, eliminated the possibility that the pain resistance measured was the result of a general sense of well being rather than actual laughter. And, Dr. Dunbar said, they also provided a partial answer to the ageless conundrum of whether we laugh because we feel giddy or feel giddy because we laugh.
“The causal sequence is laughter triggers endorphin activation,” he said. What triggers laughter is a question that leads into a different labyrinth.
Robert R. Provine, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation,” said he thought the study was “a significant contribution” to a field of study that dates back 2,000 years or so.
via Laughter Produces Endorphins, Study Finds – NYTimes.com.
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
An interesting new report indicates that 1/4 of all U.S. employees are not getting enough sleep and the result is reduced productivity at work. Poor sleep doesn’t appear to result in absenteeism so much as mental absenteeism – we just can’t think as well or perform as well when we are tired. The study estimated that workers lose more than 11 days worth of productivity to poor sleep.
While the study did not address college students directly, other research has shown that college students have poor sleep habits and often don’t sleep enough, which also likely results in diminished academic performance. Staying up to do school work might help in the short run but in the long term might actually reduce academic performance.
Sometimes stress, anxiety or depression can be the cause of underlying sleep problems. If you are struggling with any of these issues, help is available. Many psychologists specialize in treating these conditions and some even specialize in treating sleep disorders.
Excerpts from report:
Insomnia is costing the average U.S. worker 11.3 days, or $2,280, in lost productivity every year, according to a new study. As a nation, the total cost is $63.2 billion.
“We were shocked by the enormous impact insomnia has on the average person’s life,” said lead author Ronald Kessler, a psychiatric epidemiologist and professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. “It’s an underappreciated problem. Americans are not missing work because of insomnia. They are still going to their jobs but accomplishing less because they’re tired. In an information-based economy, it’s difficult to find a condition that has a greater effect on productivity.”
These findings appear in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep.
The results were computed from a national sampling of 7,428 employees, part of the larger American Insomnia Study (AIS), which was led by Kessler and funded by Sanofi-Aventis Groupe. Participants were asked about sleep habits and work performance, among other things.
via Wake-up call | Harvard Gazette.
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
Enjoy this long Labor Day weekend – research shows that the time off will not only make you more productive at work but also improved mental health. Small breaks at work or long vacations – either way it’s good for you and good for business. Check out the interesting article below (while you are on vacation).
Excerpt:
Just as small breaks improve concentration, long breaks replenish job performance. Vacation deprivation increases mistakes and resentment at co-workers, Businessweek reported in 2007. “The impact that taking a vacation has on ones mental health is profound,” said Francine Lederer, a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles specializing told ABC News. “Most people have better life perspective and are more motivated to achieve their goals after a vacation, even if it is a 24-hour time-out.”
The bottom line is that breaks are better for our brains than overtime. Where you get your break — from an hour on blogs, a day in the park, or a week golfing at Marthas Vineyard — doesnt matter so much as that you get it. If you care about your own productivity, dont be afraid to goof off online. And if you care about decision-making at the national level, tune out the critics and root for your presidents golf game.
via Why Summer Vacations and the Internet Make You More Productive – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic.
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
Obesity is associated with deadly illnesses including diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Unfortunately, Western diets and lifestyles that include little exercise are causing alarming increases in obesity. Help is available. One can work with a nutritionist to learn healthier eating habits and can work with psychologists and health psychologists to change behaviors and habits that contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle. If you need help living a healthier life, don’t wait another day, get help and start feeling better.
Excerpt from article:
If rates of obesity continue to follow the current trends, half of the United States population will suffer from obesity within the next two decades. With projections that the number of obese people in America will climb from 99 million in 2008 to 164 million by 2030, obesity-related diseases and health care costs are expected to soar. The disturbing information come from a new report recently published in the journal The Lancet.
According to Claire Wang, assistant professor of health policy and management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and lead author of the study “At the rate we’re looking at right now, it’s a dire prediction. Something has to be done.”
The report, second in a series of articles on obesity published in the journal, projects that the number of obese people in the United Kingdom will rise to almost double from 15 million to 26 million in the next 19 years. Rates of obesity in both the U.S. and U.K. have already become the highest among all 34 member nations of the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation OECD.
Read More: Obesity in America Projected to Affect 164 Million by 2030.
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