Topic
Depression
51 published works
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Does Birth Control Cause Depression?
New York Times (Apr. 4, 2017): Does Birth Control Cause Depression? by Aaron E. Carroll: A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry suggests that hormonal contraceptive use…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Depression and Dementia?
By rmorgan
The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Network, JAMA Psychiatry ran an article about a study looking at depression and dementia. Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults and Risk…
Legal Profession Blog
Reinstatement Proposed Over A Dissent
The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board recommends that reinstatement be granted to an attorney disbarred in 2007 for diverting fees from two law firms into his own pockets.While employed at two…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Headache and Depression Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Is There a Relationship?
At the American Headache Society's 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, Sylvia Lucas, M.D., Ph.D., a clinical professor of neurology and neurological surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center reported on…
Social Security Disability Lawyer Blog
ECT and Social Security disability
By Gordon Gates
Severe depression is a basis for Social Security disability. Depression is analyzed under listed impairment 12.04. Sometimes a patient's depression is so deep, and/or so unresponsive to medication, that electroconvulsive…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Predictive Factors for Depression in Caregivers
Earlier this week, I wrote about caregiver risk in home settings. By coincidence, a recent issue of GSA's Journals of Gerontology, includes "Predictors of Dementia Caregiver Depressive Symptoms in a…
The Right Coast
Richard Posner: Let s Be Honest: We re In A Depression
So the deficit, politics aside, should be manageable. But it s worth pointing out that anything that takes money out of the economy, such as reducing federal spending or increasing…
Law People
The Advantages of Depression
By Ronda Muir
The rate of depression among lawyers is widely recognized as a multiple--in some studies a double-digit multiple--of the rate of depression in the general population and also in other professions. …
The Right Coast
Depression and “overgeneral memory” Tom Smith
This strikes me as intuitively quite plausible. And interesting.
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
New Study Reports Link Between Brain Injury and Depression
Vanderbilt University researchers conducted a new study which states that patients who have sustained a traumatic brain injury are three times more likely to develop clinical depression than those patients…