There’s no single silver bullet to treat depression (not even aerobic exercise)

By SharpBrains | November 6, 2012

Exer­cise And Depres­sion Revis­it­ed (Neu­roskep­tic blog): “A new study has found lit­tle evi­dence that aer­o­bic exer­cise helps treat depres­sion, con­trary to pop­u­lar belief…Danish researchers Krogh and col­leagues ran­dom­ly 115 assigned depressed peo­ple to one of two exer­cise pro­grams. One was a stren­u­ous aer­o­bic work­out — cycling for 30 min­utes, 3 times per week, for 3 months.…

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Why Managing Stress is Crucial for Brain Fitness

By SharpBrains | August 13, 2012

How stress and depres­sion can shrink the brain (Yale News): “Major depres­sion or chron­ic stress can cause the loss of brain vol­ume, a con­di­tion that con­tributes to both emo­tion­al and cog­ni­tive impair­ment. Now a team of researchers led by Yale sci­en­tists has dis­cov­ered one rea­son why this occurs — a sin­gle genet­ic switch that trig­gers loss…

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