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Use of antidepressant medication may lead to improvements in some areas of cognitive function, such as memory and learning, in individuals with late-life depression (LLD), a study has shown.

In the treatment of adolescents with moderate or severe major depressive disorder, adding bright light therapy to psychiatric inpatient treatment as usual falls short of significantly reducing depressive symptoms when compared with placebo, as shown in a study.

Among pregnant women undergoing caesarean delivery under neuraxial anaesthesia in Singapore, the likelihood of postnatal depression may be predicted using five preoperative psychological and analgesic factors, according to a study.

Anxiety may contribute to an increased diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in adolescent children, suggests a study, noting the importance of screening for anxiety in this population.