Blog Entries - July 2008

Global Year of Depression

editor@uticopa.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

For the first time ever, consistent global research has suggested that it is during our mid-life years that we are most vulnerable to depression. The University of Warwick in the UK and Dartmouth College in the US surveyed two million people from eighty countries in a recent study, and a clear pattern emerged to suggest that the age at which we are most likely to become depressed is 44 years old

This shows very different results to previous studies, which suggested that depression [...]

Is postnatal depression linked to boys?

editor@uticopa.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Daily Telegraph has reported that the mother might be at a higher risk of having a postnatal depression if she is having a boy.

This followed a French study which showed that 75% of mothers that were diagnosed with the severe form of post natal depression, had boys.

However the research was conducted on a very small number of women and the fact that out of 17 women studied, 14 had boys could simply be a coincidence or another pattern picked up by th [...]