Mental Health and the Heart - Reader's Digest

                At least one in five people who get heart bypass surgery experiences depression, which has been shown to increase the risk of developing further cardiac problems. But cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) – a type of talk therapy – can help. In one study, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, 71 percent of the patients with a recent history of heart bypass surgery undergoing CBT were free from depression after just three months of treatment. In contrast, just one third of patients in a control group saw their depression lift.

Beth Howard

Help For The Hopeless

                About 20 percent of people suffering from depression get no relief from either medication or psychotherapy. But Harvard Medical School researchers found that stimulation from electrodes implanted in the brain produced a 22-percent improvement in symptoms after eight weeks (compared with a 3-percent improvement for patients receiving a sham treatment).


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