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A New Understanding of Depression

December 4, 2001 by Judy Foreman

At McLean Hospital in Belmont, brain researchers have hit upon what could become a totally new way to treat depression – blocking a brain chemical called dynorphin, the “evil cousin” of  endorphin, which triggers the “runner’s high.”

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Rushing Off Antidepressants Can Bring On More Distress

June 5, 2001 by Judy Foreman

At first, Zoloft seemed like “manna from heaven,” says this 53-year-old woman, a teacher who lives in Watertown.

It was the summer of 1999 and, for reasons she still doesn’t fully understand, she had slipped into a “terrible slump.” Her doctor suggested Zoloft, America’s second most popular antidepressant, after Prozac. And for a while, it was great, says the woman, who does not want her name used.

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Is Moderate Drinking The Answer?

December 19, 2000 by Judy Foreman

Until four months ago, Paul Robert, a hard-working, 42-year-old Connecticut businessman, would get home from work and knock back six drinks a night – 45 drinks a week. Sometimes wine, sometimes beer, sometimes the hard stuff.

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Ambiguous Losses Leave Survivors In Limbo

May 9, 2000 by Judy Foreman

This is a love story – but one with the kind of anguished twist that millions of Americans must grapple with.

“Betsy, Betsy, Betsy, I love you,” Frederick “Pete” Peterson, now 84 and living in an assisted-living facility in Peabody, used to say, before Alzheimer’s disease slowly stole his brain.

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Treatments For Manic Depression Are Improving

April 25, 2000 by Judy Foreman

Michael Penney, 53, of Holliston used to have, as he puts it, “a charmed life.” Marriage. A son. A master’s degree in marine economics and law, and good jobs, including an eight-year stint at the state office of Coastal Zone Management.

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FDA loosens reins

January 10, 2000 by Judy Foreman

The US Food and Drug Administration once had the power to force manufacturers of over-the-counter dietary supplements, including herbal remedies, to prove those products were safe, if the agency felt such a pre-market review was warranted.

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Go the medical route if herb doesn’t relieve depression

January 10, 2000 by Judy Foreman

So, you’re depressed. Given that the Globe’s analysis showed that, at least in lab tests, there is considerable variation among St. John’s wort brands, should you take it at all?

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St. John’s Wort: Less Than Meets The Eye

January 10, 2000 by Judy Foreman

Globe Analysis Shows Popular Herbal Antidepressant Varies Widely In Content, Quality.

We thought it would be easy.

After all, we had just two seemingly simple questions: Does St. John’s wort, the popular herbal adtidepressant on which Americans spend $250 million a year, work – at least on rat brain cells in a test tube? And do the product labels accurately reflect what’s inside the tablets?

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Trendy pill should be taken with a grain of salt

November 29, 1999 by Judy Foreman

She’s a young woman from the South Shore, finally able both to work and to study for an advanced degree.

But for years, she’s been plagued by severe depression that stems, she says, from physical abuse she suffered as a child, and from sexual abuse when she was 17.

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Here’s to your health: the benefits of drinking outweigh the risks, but only within limits

November 15, 1999 by Judy Foreman

On Thursday, the French will go nuts.

We know this because they go nuts every year on the third Thursday of November, the day the latest crop of just-off-the-vine wines hit the market.

Wine-lovers will swarm to those cute little bistros, swell with Gallic pride, swill a glass of this fairly flimsy red stuff, and proclaim, “Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!”

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