fatigue Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:53:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 fatigue Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Inflammation and Depression – Specific Symptom Cluster https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/inflammation-and-depression-specific-symptom-cluster/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/inflammation-and-depression-specific-symptom-cluster/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:42:36 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=19361 A study of 15 population-based cohorts, totalling 56,351 individuals, suggests that there is a correlation between inflammation as measured by elevated  C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) and a specific sub-group of symptoms of depression. The inflammation cluster consisted of four physical symptoms: changes in appetite, felt everything was an effort, loss of energy, sleep problems; and one cognitive symptom: little ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/inflammation-and-depression-specific-symptom-cluster/feed/ 0 19361 Do We Need 8 Hours of Sleep? https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/need-8-hours-sleep/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:47:30 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9323 A recently published study that looked at patterns of sleep in three different hunter gatherer societies challenges the long-held notion that we all need to sleep 8 to 9 hours a night and that many of us in Western society are chronically sleep deprived. The results are summarized in an article we just published in our companion website MoodSurfing.com. Tantalizing ...

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]]> 9323 Cortisol and Depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/cortisol-depression/ Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:36:43 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8086 A middle aged man with depression came in today for his first psychiatric evaluation. He had lots of questions about the relationship between cortisol and depression, because his first serious depression, at age 45, occurred in the context of a severe work stress. And this work stress was associated with many physical manifestations of stress – fatigue, severely disrupted sleep, ...

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]]> 8086 Treatment of Fatigue in Patients with Depression or Bipolar https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/treatment-of-fatigue-in-patients-with-depression-or-bipolar/ Tue, 26 Aug 2014 06:08:27 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=7944 Treatment of depression in patients with depression or bipolar is often complicated. If medications are prescribed, will they make mood symptoms worse, or have other significant adverse effects? And yet fatigue is common in people with a history of depression (it occurs in up to 10% of the general population and is much more common in women, who have a ...

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