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  • If At First You Don't Succeed...
    May 10, 2012
    Try again!   That is the message from the author of new research into unemployment and depression, published in the current Academy of Management Journal. Connie Wanberg, Associate Dean at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, tracked 177 unemployed people for 20 weeks through online surveys.  
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  • Order Form Problems
    April 23, 2012
    Due to some technical problems our online order form is not working. If you email the items you want to buy to info@journeysonline.org.uk, we will send you a paypal invoice.
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  • New Research on the Antidepressant vs Placebo Debate
    February 1, 2012
    In the 1990s, everyone was “Listening to Prozac,” after best-selling author Peter Kramer described sparkling personality transformations in patients who took the titular antidepressant drug. Then came the backlash: by the early 2000s, studies showed that Prozac and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, weren’t exactly miracle pills but were instead associated with suicide, especially in kids and teens.
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  • Hope for those with a depressive disposition
    February 1, 2012
     Potential good news for people with depressive personality traits: their negative outlook might not have to be permanent. This has been claimed by Swedish psychologist Rachel Maddux in new research from Lund University. In her previous work with depressed patients, Rachel Maddux often felt frustrated that treatments were not helpful for all of those diagnosed with depression. The main focus of her thesis therefore asked the question: why is it that some people are helped but others are not?
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  • How Mouse 'Personality' Sheds Light On Human Depression
    February 1, 2012
    Just as in humans, there are also the tough types, or those with a more delicate personality among mice, as Eneritz Gómez, a psychologist at the University of the Basque Country, has been able to confirm.
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  • Learning How The Brain Adapts To Stress
    January 30, 2012
    Scientists now have a better understanding of the way that stress impacts the brain. New research, published in the journal Neuron, reveals pioneering evidence for a mechanism of stress adaptation and may eventually lead to a better understanding of why prolonged and repeated exposure to stress can lead to anxiety disorders and depression. 
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  • Working long hours doubles risk of depression
    January 30, 2012
    The risk of a major depressive episode more than double for those working 11 or more hours a day compared to those working seven to eight hours a day, according to a report published in the online journal PLoS ONE.
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  • How Chronic Stress Short-circuits Parenting
    January 26, 2012
    Raising a toddler is a daunting undertaking under any circumstances, but parents under long-term stress often find it particularly challenging to tap into the patience, responsiveness, and energy required for effective child rearing.
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  • Treatment of depression at work increases productivity
    January 26, 2012
    A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that employees with depression who receive treatment while still working are far more likely to be highly productive than those who do not. This is the first study of its kind to look into a possible correlation between treatment and productivity.
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  • New depression gene isolated
    January 18, 2012
    New research into the genetic basis of the depression has localized a gene, called RNF123, which may play a role in major depression.
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