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Dysthymic Disorder: Chronically depressed mood that occurs for most of the day more days than not for at least 2 years. The required minimum duration in children to make this diagnosis is 1 year. During periods of depressed mood, at least 2 of the following additional symptoms are present: poor appetite or overeating, insomnia or hypersomnia, low energy or fatigue, low self esteem, poor concentration or difficulty making decisions, and feelings of hopelessness. (DSM-IV)Depression: Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.Depressive Disorder: An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent.Depressive Disorder, Major: Marked depression appearing in the involution period and characterized by hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and agitation.Psychotherapy: A generic term for the treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbances primarily by verbal or nonverbal communication.Chronic Disease: Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Antidepressive Agents: Mood-stimulating drugs used primarily in the treatment of affective disorders and related conditions. Several MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS are useful as antidepressants apparently as a long-term consequence of their modulation of catecholamine levels. The tricyclic compounds useful as antidepressive agents (ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC) also appear to act through brain catecholamine systems. A third group (ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION) is a diverse group of drugs including some that act specifically on serotonergic systems.Cognitive Therapy: A direct form of psychotherapy based on the interpretation of situations (cognitive structure of experiences) that determine how an individual feels and behaves. It is based on the premise that cognition, the process of acquiring knowledge and forming beliefs, is a primary determinant of mood and behavior. The therapy uses behavioral and verbal techniques to identify and correct negative thinking that is at the root of the aberrant behavior.Psychiatric Status Rating Scales: Standardized procedures utilizing rating scales or interview schedules carried out by health personnel for evaluating the degree of mental illness.Combined Modality Therapy: The treatment of a disease or condition by several different means simultaneously or sequentially. Chemoimmunotherapy, RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY, chemoradiotherapy, cryochemotherapy, and SALVAGE THERAPY are seen most frequently, but their combinations with each other and surgery are also used.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Depression, Postpartum: Depression in POSTPARTUM WOMEN, usually within four weeks after giving birth (PARTURITION). The degree of depression ranges from mild transient depression to neurotic or psychotic depressive disorders. (From DSM-IV, p386)Cortical Spreading Depression: The decrease in neuronal activity (related to a decrease in metabolic demand) extending from the site of cortical stimulation. It is believed to be responsible for the decrease in cerebral blood flow that accompanies the aura of MIGRAINE WITH AURA. (Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary, 8th ed.)Long-Term Synaptic Depression: A persistent activity-dependent decrease in synaptic efficacy between NEURONS. It typically occurs following repeated low-frequency afferent stimulation, but it can be induced by other methods. Long-term depression appears to play a role in MEMORY.Anxiety: Feeling or emotion of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster but not disabling as with ANXIETY DISORDERS.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Anxiety Disorders: Persistent and disabling ANXIETY.Personality Inventory: Check list, usually to be filled out by a person about himself, consisting of many statements about personal characteristics which the subject checks.Stress, Psychological: Stress wherein emotional factors predominate.Comorbidity: The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival.Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation: A structurally and mechanistically diverse group of drugs that are not tricyclics or monoamine oxidase inhibitors. The most clinically important appear to act selectively on serotonergic systems, especially by inhibiting serotonin reuptake.Severity of Illness Index: Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors: Compounds that specifically inhibit the reuptake of serotonin in the brain.Affect: The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Psychometrics: Assessment of psychological variables by the application of mathematical procedures.Depression, Chemical: The decrease in a measurable parameter of a PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS, including cellular, microbial, and plant; immunological, cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive, urinary, digestive, neural, musculoskeletal, ocular, and skin physiological processes; or METABOLIC PROCESS, including enzymatic and other pharmacological processes, by a drug or other chemical.Cross-Sectional Studies: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.Citalopram: A furancarbonitrile that is one of the SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS used as an antidepressant. The drug is also effective in reducing ethanol uptake in alcoholics and is used in depressed patients who also suffer from tardive dyskinesia in preference to tricyclic antidepressants, which aggravate this condition.Quality of Life: A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral and social environment; the overall condition of a human life.Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Categorical classification of MENTAL DISORDERS based on criteria sets with defining features. It is produced by the American Psychiatric Association. (DSM-IV, page xxii)Prevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.Longitudinal Studies: Studies in which variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed over a period of time.Interview, Psychological: A directed conversation aimed at eliciting information for psychiatric diagnosis, evaluation, treatment planning, etc. The interview may be conducted by a social worker or psychologist.Sertraline: A selective serotonin uptake inhibitor that is used in the treatment of depression.Primary Health Care: Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)Bipolar Disorder: A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.Adaptation, Psychological: A state of harmony between internal needs and external demands and the processes used in achieving this condition. (From APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed)Life Change Events: Those occurrences, including social, psychological, and environmental, which require an adjustment or effect a change in an individual's pattern of living.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Psychological Tests: Standardized tests designed to measure abilities, as in intelligence, aptitude, and achievement tests, or to evaluate personality traits.Suicide: The act of killing oneself.Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant: Failure to respond to two or more trials of antidepressant monotherapy or failure to respond to four or more trials of different antidepressant therapies. (Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary, 9th ed.)Fluoxetine: The first highly specific serotonin uptake inhibitor. It is used as an antidepressant and often has a more acceptable side-effects profile than traditional antidepressants.Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic: Substances that contain a fused three-ring moiety and are used in the treatment of depression. These drugs block the uptake of norepinephrine and serotonin into axon terminals and may block some subtypes of serotonin, adrenergic, and histamine receptors. However the mechanism of their antidepressant effects is not clear because the therapeutic effects usually take weeks to develop and may reflect compensatory changes in the central nervous system.Follow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.Electroconvulsive Therapy: Electrically induced CONVULSIONS primarily used in the treatment of severe AFFECTIVE DISORDERS and SCHIZOPHRENIA.Suicidal Ideation: A risk factor for suicide attempts and completions, it is the most common of all suicidal behavior, but only a minority of ideators engage in overt self-harm.Neuronal Plasticity: The capacity of the NERVOUS SYSTEM to change its reactivity as the result of successive activations.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Synaptic Transmission: The communication from a NEURON to a target (neuron, muscle, or secretory cell) across a SYNAPSE. In chemical synaptic transmission, the presynaptic neuron releases a NEUROTRANSMITTER that diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to specific synaptic receptors, activating them. The activated receptors modulate specific ion channels and/or second-messenger systems in the postsynaptic cell. In electrical synaptic transmission, electrical signals are communicated as an ionic current flow across ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES.Social Support: Support systems that provide assistance and encouragement to individuals with physical or emotional disabilities in order that they may better cope. Informal social support is usually provided by friends, relatives, or peers, while formal assistance is provided by churches, groups, etc.Electric Stimulation: Use of electric potential or currents to elicit biological responses.Analysis of Variance: A statistical technique that isolates and assesses the contributions of categorical independent variables to variation in the mean of a continuous dependent variable.Mood Disorders: Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic: A class of traumatic stress disorders with symptoms that last more than one month. There are various forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on the time of onset and the duration of these stress symptoms. In the acute form, the duration of the symptoms is between 1 to 3 months. In the chronic form, symptoms last more than 3 months. With delayed onset, symptoms develop more than 6 months after the traumatic event.Synapses: Specialized junctions at which a neuron communicates with a target cell. At classical synapses, a neuron's presynaptic terminal releases a chemical transmitter stored in synaptic vesicles which diffuses across a narrow synaptic cleft and activates receptors on the postsynaptic membrane of the target cell. The target may be a dendrite, cell body, or axon of another neuron, or a specialized region of a muscle or secretory cell. Neurons may also communicate via direct electrical coupling with ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES. Several other non-synaptic chemical or electric signal transmitting processes occur via extracellular mediated interactions.Inbreeding: The mating of plants or non-human animals which are closely related genetically.Child of Impaired Parents: Child with one or more parents afflicted by a physical or mental disorder.Hippocampus: A curved elevation of GRAY MATTER extending the entire length of the floor of the TEMPORAL HORN of the LATERAL VENTRICLE (see also TEMPORAL LOBE). The hippocampus proper, subiculum, and DENTATE GYRUS constitute the hippocampal formation. Sometimes authors include the ENTORHINAL CORTEX in the hippocampal formation.Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials: Depolarization of membrane potentials at the SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES of target neurons during neurotransmission. Excitatory postsynaptic potentials can singly or in summation reach the trigger threshold for ACTION POTENTIALS.Paroxetine: A serotonin uptake inhibitor that is effective in the treatment of depression.Sex Factors: Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.Cognition Disorders: Disturbances in mental processes related to learning, thinking, reasoning, and judgment.Mental Disorders: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.Socioeconomic Factors: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Neuropsychological Tests: Tests designed to assess neurological function associated with certain behaviors. They are used in diagnosing brain dysfunction or damage and central nervous system disorders or injury.Health Status: The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.Emotions: Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.Cohort Studies: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.Fatigue: The state of weariness following a period of exertion, mental or physical, characterized by a decreased capacity for work and reduced efficiency to respond to stimuli.United States Suicide, Attempted: The unsuccessful attempt to kill oneself.Personality Assessment: The determination and evaluation of personality attributes by interviews, observations, tests, or scales. Articles concerning personality measurement are considered to be within scope of this term.Geriatric Assessment: Evaluation of the level of physical, physiological, or mental functioning in the older population group.Self Concept: A person's view of himself.Mother-Child Relations: Interaction between a mother and child.Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins: Sodium chloride-dependent neurotransmitter symporters located primarily on the PLASMA MEMBRANE of serotonergic neurons. They are different than SEROTONIN RECEPTORS, which signal cellular responses to SEROTONIN. They remove SEROTONIN from the EXTRACELLULAR SPACE by high affinity reuptake into PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS. Regulates signal amplitude and duration at serotonergic synapses and is the site of action of the SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS.Somatoform Disorders: Disorders having the presence of physical symptoms that suggest a general medical condition but that are not fully explained by a another medical condition, by the direct effects of a substance, or by another mental disorder. The symptoms must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. In contrast to FACTITIOUS DISORDERS and MALINGERING, the physical symptoms are not under voluntary control. (APA, DSM-V)Mental Health: The state wherein the person is well adjusted.Cyclohexanols: Monohydroxy derivatives of cyclohexanes that contain the general formula R-C6H11O. They have a camphorlike odor and are used in making soaps, insecticides, germicides, dry cleaning, and plasticizers.Age Factors: Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.Regression Analysis: Procedures for finding the mathematical function which best describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. In linear regression (see LINEAR MODELS) the relationship is constrained to be a straight line and LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS is used to determine the best fit. In logistic regression (see LOGISTIC MODELS) the dependent variable is qualitative rather than continuously variable and LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS are used to find the best relationship. In multiple regression, the dependent variable is considered to depend on more than a single independent variable.Mianserin: A tetracyclic compound with antidepressant effects. It may cause drowsiness and hematological problems. Its mechanism of therapeutic action is not well understood, although it apparently blocks alpha-adrenergic, histamine H1, and some types of serotonin receptors.Pain: An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.Brain: The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.Adjustment Disorders: Maladaptive reactions to identifiable psychosocial stressors occurring within a short time after onset of the stressor. They are manifested by either impairment in social or occupational functioning or by symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) that are in excess of a normal and expected reaction to the stressor.Sleep Disorders: Conditions characterized by disturbances of usual sleep patterns or behaviors. Sleep disorders may be divided into three major categories: DYSSOMNIAS (i.e. disorders characterized by insomnia or hypersomnia), PARASOMNIAS (abnormal sleep behaviors), and sleep disorders secondary to medical or psychiatric disorders. (From Thorpy, Sleep Disorders Medicine, 1994, p187)Interpersonal Relations: The reciprocal interaction of two or more persons.Affective Disorders, Psychotic: Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood (depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.Activities of Daily Living: The performance of the basic activities of self care, such as dressing, ambulation, or eating.Neural Inhibition: The function of opposing or restraining the excitation of neurons or their target excitable cells.Rats, Sprague-Dawley: A strain of albino rat used widely for experimental purposes because of its calmness and ease of handling. It was developed by the Sprague-Dawley Animal Company.Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders: Disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition.Long-Term Potentiation: A persistent increase in synaptic efficacy, usually induced by appropriate activation of the same synapses. The phenomenological properties of long-term potentiation suggest that it may be a cellular mechanism of learning and memory.Self Report: Method for obtaining information through verbal responses, written or oral, from subjects.Health Surveys: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.Geriatric Psychiatry: A subspecialty of psychiatry concerned with the mental health of the aged.Nortriptyline: A metabolite of AMITRIPTYLINE that is also used as an antidepressive agent. Nortriptyline is used in major depression, dysthymia, and atypical depressions.Models, Psychological: Theoretical representations that simulate psychological processes and/or social processes. These include the use of mathematical equations, computers, and other electronic equipment.Caregivers: Persons who provide care to those who need supervision or assistance in illness or disability. They may provide the care in the home, in a hospital, or in an institution. Although caregivers include trained medical, nursing, and other health personnel, the concept also refers to parents, spouses, or other family members, friends, members of the clergy, teachers, social workers, fellow patients.Psychotherapy, Brief: Any form of psychotherapy designed to produce therapeutic change within a minimal amount of time, generally not more than 20 sessions.Cognition: Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism obtains knowledge.Psychotherapy, Group: A form of therapy in which two or more patients participate under the guidance of one or more psychotherapists for the purpose of treating emotional disturbances, social maladjustments, and psychotic states.Mass Screening: Organized periodic procedures performed on large groups of people for the purpose of detecting disease.Case-Control Studies: Studies which start with the identification of persons with a disease of interest and a control (comparison, referent) group without the disease. The relationship of an attribute to the disease is examined by comparing diseased and non-diseased persons with regard to the frequency or levels of the attribute in each group.Reproducibility of Results: The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results.Seasonal Affective Disorder: A syndrome characterized by depressions that recur annually at the same time each year, usually during the winter months. Other symptoms include anxiety, irritability, decreased energy, increased appetite (carbohydrate cravings), increased duration of sleep, and weight gain. SAD (seasonal affective disorder) can be treated by daily exposure to bright artificial lights (PHOTOTHERAPY), during the season of recurrence.Pregnancy Complications: Conditions or pathological processes associated with pregnancy. They can occur during or after pregnancy, and range from minor discomforts to serious diseases that require medical interventions. They include diseases in pregnant females, and pregnancies in females with diseases.Neurotic Disorders: Disorders in which the symptoms are distressing to the individual and recognized by him or her as being unacceptable. Social relationships may be greatly affected but usually remain within acceptable limits. The disturbance is relatively enduring or recurrent without treatment.Grief: Normal, appropriate sorrowful response to an immediate cause. It is self-limiting and gradually subsides within a reasonable time.Anhedonia: Inability to experience pleasure due to impairment or dysfunction of normal psychological and neurobiological mechanisms. It is a symptom of many PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS (e.g., DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; and SCHIZOPHRENIA).Imipramine: The prototypical tricyclic antidepressant. It has been used in major depression, dysthymia, bipolar depression, attention-deficit disorders, agoraphobia, and panic disorders. It has less sedative effect than some other members of this therapeutic group.Helplessness, Learned: Learned expectation that one's responses are independent of reward and, hence, do not predict or control the occurrence of rewards. Learned helplessness derives from a history, experimentally induced or naturally occurring, of having received punishment/aversive stimulation regardless of responses made. Such circumstances result in an impaired ability to learn. Used for human or animal populations. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)Pain Measurement: Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Substance-Related Disorders: Disorders related to substance abuse.Affective Symptoms: Mood or emotional responses dissonant with or inappropriate to the behavior and/or stimulus.Mental Health Services: Organized services to provide mental health care.Recurrence: The return of a sign, symptom, or disease after a remission.Outpatients: Persons who receive ambulatory care at an outpatient department or clinic without room and board being provided.Age of Onset: The age, developmental stage, or period of life at which a disease or the initial symptoms or manifestations of a disease appear in an individual.Double-Blind Method: A method of studying a drug or procedure in which both the subjects and investigators are kept unaware of who is actually getting which specific treatment.Personality: Behavior-response patterns that characterize the individual.Pilot Projects: Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.Panic Disorder: A type of anxiety disorder characterized by unexpected panic attacks that last minutes or, rarely, hours. Panic attacks begin with intense apprehension, fear or terror and, often, a feeling of impending doom. Symptoms experienced during a panic attack include dyspnea or sensations of being smothered; dizziness, loss of balance or faintness; choking sensations; palpitations or accelerated heart rate; shakiness; sweating; nausea or other form of abdominal distress; depersonalization or derealization; paresthesias; hot flashes or chills; chest discomfort or pain; fear of dying and fear of not being in control of oneself or going crazy. Agoraphobia may also develop. Similar to other anxiety disorders, it may be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System: A collection of NEURONS, tracts of NERVE FIBERS, endocrine tissue, and blood vessels in the HYPOTHALAMUS and the PITUITARY GLAND. This hypothalamo-hypophyseal portal circulation provides the mechanism for hypothalamic neuroendocrine (HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES) regulation of pituitary function and the release of various PITUITARY HORMONES into the systemic circulation to maintain HOMEOSTASIS.Serotonin: A biochemical messenger and regulator, synthesized from the essential amino acid L-TRYPTOPHAN. In humans it is found primarily in the central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, and blood platelets. Serotonin mediates several important physiological functions including neurotransmission, gastrointestinal motility, hemostasis, and cardiovascular integrity. Multiple receptor families (RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN) explain the broad physiological actions and distribution of this biochemical mediator.Therapy, Computer-Assisted: Computer systems utilized as adjuncts in the treatment of disease.Neurons: The basic cellular units of nervous tissue. Each neuron consists of a body, an axon, and dendrites. Their purpose is to receive, conduct, and transmit impulses in the NERVOUS SYSTEM.Problem Solving: A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to attain a specific goal.Interviews as Topic: Conversations with an individual or individuals held in order to obtain information about their background and other personal biographical data, their attitudes and opinions, etc. It includes school admission or job interviews.Self-Assessment: Appraisal of one's own personal qualities or traits.Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate: A class of ionotropic glutamate receptors characterized by affinity for N-methyl-D-aspartate. NMDA receptors have an allosteric binding site for glycine which must be occupied for the channel to open efficiently and a site within the channel itself to which magnesium ions bind in a voltage-dependent manner. The positive voltage dependence of channel conductance and the high permeability of the conducting channel to calcium ions (as well as to monovalent cations) are important in excitotoxicity and neuronal plasticity.Pituitary-Adrenal System: The interactions between the anterior pituitary and adrenal glands, in which corticotropin (ACTH) stimulates the adrenal cortex and adrenal cortical hormones suppress the production of corticotropin by the anterior pituitary.Patient Acceptance of Health Care: The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.Resilience, Psychological: The human ability to adapt in the face of tragedy, trauma, adversity, hardship, and ongoing significant life stressors.Disability Evaluation: Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for Social Security and workmen's compensation benefits.Predictive Value of Tests: In screening and diagnostic tests, the probability that a person with a positive test is a true positive (i.e., has the disease), is referred to as the predictive value of a positive test; whereas, the predictive value of a negative test is the probability that the person with a negative test does not have the disease. Predictive value is related to the sensitivity and specificity of the test.Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists: Drugs that bind to but do not activate excitatory amino acid receptors, thereby blocking the actions of agonists.Behavior, Animal: The observable response an animal makes to any situation.Linear Models: Statistical models in which the value of a parameter for a given value of a factor is assumed to be equal to a + bx, where a and b are constants. The models predict a linear regression.Internal-External Control: Personality construct referring to an individual's perception of the locus of events as determined internally by his or her own behavior versus fate, luck, or external forces. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1996).Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate: Cell surface proteins that bind glutamate and act through G-proteins to influence second messenger systems. Several types of metabotropic glutamate receptors have been cloned. They differ in pharmacology, distribution, and mechanisms of action.Psychiatry: The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.Veterans: Former members of the armed services.Patient Compliance: Voluntary cooperation of the patient in following a prescribed regimen.Psychotropic Drugs: A loosely defined grouping of drugs that have effects on psychological function. Here the psychotropic agents include the antidepressive agents, hallucinogens, and tranquilizing agents (including the antipsychotics and anti-anxiety agents).Demography: Statistical interpretation and description of a population with reference to distribution, composition, or structure.Apathy: Lack of emotion or emotional expression; a disorder of motivation that persists over time.Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques.Dementia: An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.Swimming: An activity in which the body is propelled through water by specific movement of the arms and/or the legs. Swimming as propulsion through water by the movement of limbs, tail, or fins of animals is often studied as a form of PHYSICAL EXERTION or endurance.Antimanic Agents: Agents that are used to treat bipolar disorders or mania associated with other affective disorders.Motor Activity: The physical activity of a human or an animal as a behavioral phenomenon.Factor Analysis, Statistical: A set of statistical methods for analyzing the correlations among several variables in order to estimate the number of fundamental dimensions that underlie the observed data and to describe and measure those dimensions. It is used frequently in the development of scoring systems for rating scales and questionnaires.Statistics as Topic: The science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation. The term is also applied to the data themselves and to the summarization of the data.Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic: Works about clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.Action Potentials: Abrupt changes in the membrane potential that sweep along the CELL MEMBRANE of excitable cells in response to excitation stimuli.Chi-Square Distribution: A distribution in which a variable is distributed like the sum of the squares of any given independent random variable, each of which has a normal distribution with mean of zero and variance of one. The chi-square test is a statistical test based on comparison of a test statistic to a chi-square distribution. The oldest of these tests are used to detect whether two or more population distributions differ from one another.Multivariate Analysis: A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.Research Design: A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly.Social Adjustment: Adaptation of the person to the social environment. Adjustment may take place by adapting the self to the environment or by changing the environment. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 1996)Parenting: Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.Odds Ratio: The ratio of two odds. The exposure-odds ratio for case control data is the ratio of the odds in favor of exposure among cases to the odds in favor of exposure among noncases. The disease-odds ratio for a cohort or cross section is the ratio of the odds in favor of disease among the exposed to the odds in favor of disease among the unexposed. The prevalence-odds ratio refers to an odds ratio derived cross-sectionally from studies of prevalent cases.Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1A: A serotonin receptor subtype found distributed through the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM where they are involved in neuroendocrine regulation of ACTH secretion. The fact that this serotonin receptor subtype is particularly sensitive to SEROTONIN RECEPTOR AGONISTS such as BUSPIRONE suggests its role in the modulation of ANXIETY and DEPRESSION.Hydrocortisone: The main glucocorticoid secreted by the ADRENAL CORTEX. Its synthetic counterpart is used, either as an injection or topically, in the treatment of inflammation, allergy, collagen diseases, asthma, adrenocortical deficiency, shock, and some neoplastic conditions.Patch-Clamp Techniques: An electrophysiologic technique for studying cells, cell membranes, and occasionally isolated organelles. All patch-clamp methods rely on a very high-resistance seal between a micropipette and a membrane; the seal is usually attained by gentle suction. The four most common variants include on-cell patch, inside-out patch, outside-out patch, and whole-cell clamp. Patch-clamp methods are commonly used to voltage clamp, that is control the voltage across the membrane and measure current flow, but current-clamp methods, in which the current is controlled and the voltage is measured, are also used.Sick Role: Set of expectations that exempt persons from responsibility for their illness and exempt them from usual responsibilities.Child Abuse: Abuse of children in a family, institutional, or other setting. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)Family Practice: A medical specialty concerned with the provision of continuing, comprehensive primary health care for the entire family.Rats, Wistar: A strain of albino rat developed at the Wistar Institute that has spread widely at other institutions. This has markedly diluted the original strain.Washington

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Karl-Fredrik Norrback

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Cyclothymia

doi:10.1016/S0165-0327(00)00347-5. PMID 11172870 "Dysthymic disorder and chronic depression". Psychologyinfo.com. Retrieved ... is a type of chronic mood disorder widely considered to be a more chronic but milder or subthreshold form of bipolar disorder. ... Since depression can be triggered or exacerbated by life events and circumstances, the diagnosing clinician must determine when ... The diagnosis requires that there be periods of both hypomania and depression and that periods of normal mood not last longer ...

Devin K. Grayson

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Cognitive distortion

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Symptom targeted intervention

Kimmel, Paul L (2002). "Depression in patients with chronic renal disease". Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 53 (4): 951-6. ... Patients with ESRD and other chronic diseases often suffer from depression and it often goes undiagnosed. Studies suggest that ... A review of treatments for anxiety and depression in dialysis patients cited STI as an economical way to alleviate depression ... If depression is a system consisting of various symptoms, when one of the symptoms improves, the entire trajectory of the ...

Adrian Howells

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Rebecca Clarke (composer)

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Mood (psychology)

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Mindfulness

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Self-neglect

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Unidimensional Fatigue Impact Scale

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Kamei J, Ohsawa M, Hayashi SS, Nakanishi Y (February 2011). "Effect of chronic pain on morphine-induced respiratory depression ... and worsening the respiratory depression produced by opioid analgesic drugs, which appears to be partly 5-HT4 mediated and can ...

Melanocyte-inhibiting factor

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Sleep state misperception

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Suicide in Medical Patients: Japanese and American Psychiatrist's Attitudes

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Coppy Laws

"Controlled trial of bright light and negative air ions for chronic depression". Psychol Med. 35: 945-55. doi:10.1017/ ...

Cotard delusion

Chronic stage-continued, severe delusions along with chronic psychiatric depression. The Cotard syndrome withdraws the ... while a severe case is characterized by intense delusions of negation and chronic psychiatric depression. The case of ... When WI was treated for depression, his delusions of his own death diminished in a month. In November 2016, the Daily Mirror ... His mental health history was of a boy expressing themes of death, chronic sadness, decreased physical activity in playtime, ...

Durban Poison

... is used to treat depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and nausea. White Durban - a sativa-dominant hybrid strain ...

Pierre Flor-Henry

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Hagop S. Akiskal

Professor Akiskal rose to prominence with his integrative theory of depression. Subsequently he established chronic depressions ... His clinical expertise ranges from dysthymia to bipolar spectrum disorders, as well as comorbidity, resistant depression, ... manic depression). Born in Lebanon to Armenian parents, he received his M.D. from the American University of Beirut in 1969. He ... the German Anna Monika Prize for Depression, the NARSAD Prize for Affective Disorders, the 2002 Jean Delay Prize for ...

Hemoencephalography

In addition, HEG has shown promise at alleviating depression, stress and chronic anxiety. There is also work done by Dr. Luis ... A four-year study of 100 chronic migraine sufferers found that after as few as six 30-minute training sessions, 90% of patients ... doi:10.1300/J184v08n03_02 Amen, D. & Routh, L. (2003). Healing anxiety and depression. Putnam: New York.. ...

Sandy Blythe

On 18 November 2005, Blythe committed suicide; he had been suffering from depression and chronic fatigue syndrome for several ...

Eating

A chronic lack of nutritious food can cause various illnesses, and will eventually lead to starvation. When this happens in a ... These include depression, food allergies, ingestion of certain chemicals, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, pituitary gland ...

How Seasonal Affective Disorder Is Linked to Addiction

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Depression or Chronic Shame?

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Study: Chronic depression may increase stroke risk - CNN

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Through the wasteland: chronic depression | The BMJ

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Brain inflammation links chronic pain with depression

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Through the wasteland: chronic depression | The BMJ

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Many Mass Killers Have Had Chronic Depression : NPR

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Chronic depression: Update on classification and treatment | SpringerLink

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How to Manage Your Chronic Pain and Depression

Therapy, pain medication and meditation are a few ways to help manage depression. ... Many people suffering from chronic pain may develop depression. ... The Depression-Chronic Pain Link. Science shows that treating ... Studies have found that chronic pain and depression are based in the same area of the brain and share the same ... The following treatments can help if you suffer from chronic pain and depression. Many patients benefit from a combination of ...

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Living with Chronic Pain and Depression

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How can antidepressants help treat chronic pain and depression?

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Chronic Depression Causes, Symptoms, Treatments and More

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Dysthymia: Are You Suffering From Chronic Depression?

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What can I do about chronic depression?

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Treating Chronic Depression with Acupressure

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Depression and Chronic Back Pain

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Continuous or chronic stress can result in addiction. (drugrehab.com)
The inability to handle stress can cause people to sink deeper into depression. (drugrehab.com)

When therapists asked how long I had experienced symptoms of depression, I didn't understand the question. (psychcentral.com)
We already knew that people with depression, or even symptoms of depression, had higher stroke risk," said lead author Paola Gilsanz. (cnn.com)
What we didn't know is whether if the symptoms of depression went away, the stroke risk would also go away. (cnn.com)
We were surprised that for this group of people, with symptoms of depression at one interview but not the second interview, stroke risk remained significantly elevated (by about 66%) compared to people who had not had symptoms of depression at either interview," said co-author Maria Glymour. (cnn.com)
So I'm not surprised that even after symptoms of depression are remitting, there is still a risk. (cnn.com)
This discovery suggests there is a mechanism that connects chronic pain with symptoms of depression and anxiety that many patients experience. (medicalnewstoday.com)
However, reducing pain doesn't necessarily reduce symptoms of depression, he said. (psychcentral.com)
First to reduce the physical symptoms of depression. (acupuncturetoday.com)
An estimated one-third of individuals with a chronic illness or condition experience symptoms of depression. (clevelandclinic.org)
What are the symptoms of depression? (clevelandclinic.org)
Patients and their family members often overlook the symptoms of depression, assuming that feeling depressed is normal for someone struggling with a serious, chronic illness. (clevelandclinic.org)
Symptoms of depression such as fatigue, poor appetite, reduced concentration, and insomnia are also common features of chronic medical conditions. (clevelandclinic.org)
It is estimated that up to one-third of individuals with a serious medical condition have symptoms of depression. (clevelandclinic.org)
The doctor and the patient must decide whether symptoms of depression are just a normal reaction to the stress of having a chronic medical condition, or are so intense or disabling that they require additional treatment with an antidepressant. (clevelandclinic.org)
In some cases, improved treatment of the chronic medical condition will relieve the symptoms of depression that it caused. (clevelandclinic.org)
Out of all the symptoms of depression, insomnia or other sleep issues are the most residual despite improvement in mood or other symptoms of depression," Drerup says. (healthline.com)
Parents of children with chronic disease should keep an eye out for symptoms of depression, helping their child receive the treatment and support needed. (childrens.com)
If you believe that you are suffering from symptoms of depression, then you should certainly see your primary care physician and/or a mental health professional such as a psychiatrist. (zocdoc.com)
The 12-week, randomized, placebo-controlled study, to be published Nov. 18 in Psychiatry Research , involved patients whose symptoms of depression had failed to improve substantially, despite treatment, for at least six months leading up to the study's onset. (eurekalert.org)
Some individuals consider signs and symptoms of depression to be a natural part of the aging process. (achievesolutions.net)
An area of concern is the co-existence of depression with a physical condition (3), but symptoms of depression often go unrecognized (4,5). (cdc.gov)
Perceptions toward depression self-care were assessed by 1) being able to make an appointment, 2) knowing who to call for personal or emotional problems, 3) being able to identify symptoms of depression, 4) being able to take an antidepressant medicine, 5) being able to make oneself feel better, and 6) being able to avoid difficult situations that can trigger depression. (cdc.gov)
Since depression is believed to be caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, TMS helps restore balance and relieve the symptoms of depression. (healthcanal.com)
Symptoms of depression (as measured by the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HDRS) in congestive heart failure patients with clinical depression after treatment with sertraline or placebo. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Among people suffering from chronic cough, more than half have symptoms of depression, new research shows. (blackdoctor.org)
Recognize the symptoms of depression and appropriate assessment tools to screen for depression. (westernschools.com)
In their analysis, the researchers measured psychological distress by patients' perceived levels of stress (i.e. how overwhelmed or frustrated they felt) and rated symptoms of depression (such as how sad, worthless or fatigued they felt, and if they contemplated suicide). (unityrehab.com)

Often, people who have been diagnosed with a chronic illness or condition suffer from comorbid depression, which is a type of depression that is resultant from a primary physical or psychological ailment. (lifehack.org)
However, comorbid depression must be taken as seriously as major depressive disorder, and there are some things caretakers can do to help treat the depression of a loved one. (lifehack.org)
Comorbid depression is a serious condition that needs to be addressed. (lifehack.org)
In addition, she said, depression could be an indicator of comorbid disease. (medpagetoday.com)
The overarching goal of this study is to develop and evaluate a telephone delivered behavioral change intervention for older Veterans with chronic low back pain (cLBP) and comorbid depression, and to ultimately assess its effect on cLBP-related pain, depressive symptoms, and disability. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Comorbid depression in people with chronic medical illness is a serious public health concern. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Depression is often comorbid with other chronic diseases and can worsen their associated health outcomes. (nih.gov)
An average of between 9.3% and 23.0% of participants with one or more chronic physical disease had comorbid depression. (nih.gov)
Consistently across countries and different demographic characteristics, respondents with depression comorbid with one or more chronic diseases had the worst health scores of all the disease states. (nih.gov)
The comorbid state of depression incrementally worsens health compared with depression alone, with any of the chronic diseases alone, and with any combination of chronic diseases without depression. (nih.gov)
Conclusions Depression is commonly comorbid with CFS/ME, much more common than in the general population, and is associated with markers of disease severity. (bmj.com)
Depression and anxiety are significant comorbid and potentially modifiable conditions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but their effects on exacerbations are not clear. (unboundmedicine.com)
Comorbid diabetes mellitus, hypertension, heart disease, and arthritis in older persons with depression were identified from patient self-report. (rti.org)
comorbid medical conditions do not result in lower quality of depression treatment in older persons. (rti.org)
8 ] As depression is a treatable illness, a rational approach to reducing the burden of CLBP is to diagnose and treat comorbid depression. (chiro.org)

For the first time, scientists have discovered that brain inflammation caused by chronic nerve pain can affect signaling in the regions of the brain associated with mood and motivation. (medicalnewstoday.com)
The researchers are now hoping to establish whether biophysical alterations in the brain are behind the development of mood disorders associated with disruption of reward circuitry and chronic pain. (medicalnewstoday.com)
In addition to improving your mood and treating depression directly, these medicines alter your perception of pain so it's easier to bear. (aarp.org)
Depression , also known as clinical depression or major depressive disorder, is a common but serious illness that affects mood, thinking, and behavior. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Periods of normal mood for up to two months may be present in dysthymia depression. (healthyplace.com)
Anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders are common among people who have arthritis, and very often in younger arthritis sufferers. (adaa.org)
They also showed that the hippocampus changes, or increases in size, correlated to improved mood in patients with major depression and indicated how well they were responding to treatment. (deccanherald.com)
Both depressed groups scored higher that the control group on measures of these cognitive variables and the chronicallu depressed group generally scored higher than those with non-chronic depression even after controlling for mood state and personality disorder symptoms. (behavior.net)
Patients with chronic pain must be evaluated for depression, and successful management of pain must include treatment of depressive mood too. (intechopen.com)
The assessment can help identify depression, anxiety or other issues that could be affecting your child's mood and behavior. (childrens.com)
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mental illness associated with extreme mood swings. (glucksolutions.org)
In particular, injury sensory pathways of body pains have been shown to share the same brain regions involved in mood management, including the insular cortex, prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, thalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala, which form a histological structural foundation for the coexistence of pain and depression [ 14 ]. (hindawi.com)
Because there are a percentage of us with chronic pain and/or mood disorders that will never find the right medication. (beliefnet.com)
Forty-eight percent of adults in the United States living with one or more chronic conditions (eg, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, mood disorders) are African American (1,2). (cdc.gov)
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. (shtfplan.com)
More than a feeling of sadness or low mood, clinical depression is a psychological state that causes fatigue, lack of motivation, appetite changes, slowed response time and feelings of helplessness. (verywellhealth.com)
Thus the presence of any one - pain or depression - in an individual can deplete the body's resources of its natural pain killers (endorphins) and other neurochemicals responsible for regulating mood and pain sensations. (sovcal.com)
The quality of life of a chronically ill patient may be particularly complicated by a concurrent depressive disorder, which may bring the patient into a vicious circle: the depressed mood lowers the force needed to cope with the chronic disease, the physical symptoms become less tolerable, and the psychosocially debilitating effect of the disease may be enforced by the depressed mood. (bmj.com)
Chronic depression: If you suffer different types of mood swings don't fret because of there maybe a simple explanation why this occurs. (spotthepimple.com)
Research shows people with chronic pain are likely to suffer from a mood disorder like anxiety or depression. (idealspine.com)
Even if the patient has not shown signs of depression, back pain management techniques like chiropractic play an important role in preventing a mood disorder later on. (idealspine.com)

Depression in turn can intensify pain, fatigue, and the self-doubt that can lead the patient to avoid other people. (clevelandclinic.org)
Fibromyalgia is a chronic medical condition that causes widespread muscle pain and fatigue. (adaa.org)
1 cause of High BP, Depression, Chronic Fatigue & more! (constantcontact.com)
Immunologic parameters in chronic fatigue syndrome, major depression, and multiple sclerosis. (nih.gov)
Department of Neurosciences, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cooperative Research Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey--New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07018, USA. (nih.gov)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the immune dysfunction hypothesis of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) by comparing immunologic data from patients with CFS with data from patients with other fatiguing illnesses--major depression and multiple sclerosis (MS)--and with data from healthy sedentary controls. (nih.gov)
Millions of people suffer from health complications linked to chronic stress and more than half of all patients visiting their doctor complain of stress-related fatigue. (shirleys-wellness-cafe.com)
Earlier estimates of depression among chronic kidney disease patients were based on self-report depression scales that can emphasize symptoms such as lack of appetite, weight loss and fatigue. (scienceblog.com)
These days my clinical depression is coupled with the illness of FM/CFS/ME [Fibromyaglia/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis]. (beliefnet.com)
Although physicians continue to diagnose conditions like migraines, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic back pain, depression, anxiety, and PTSD, a growing body of research shows that these are in fact symptoms of something else-a deep-rooted inflammation in the brain. (indiebound.org)
An evaluation of multidisciplinary intervention for chronic fatigue syndrome with long-term follow-up, and a comparison with untreated controls. (amazonaws.com)
Serum levels of lymphokines and soluble cellular receptors in primary Epstein-Barr virus infection and in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. (amazonaws.com)
A preliminary placebo-controlled crossover trial of fludrocortisone for chronic fatigue syndrome. (amazonaws.com)
Low-dose hydrocortisone for treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial. (amazonaws.com)
Influence of exhaustive treadmill exercise on cognitive functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome. (amazonaws.com)
Effects of exercise on cognitive and motor function in chronic fatigue syndrome and depression. (amazonaws.com)
Chronic fatigue syndrome: identification of distinct subgroups on the basis of allergy and psychologic variables. (amazonaws.com)
Therapeutic effects of oral NADH on the symptoms of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. (amazonaws.com)
The effect of topical nasal corticosteroids in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and rhinitis. (amazonaws.com)
Randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled study of fluoxetine in chronic fatigue syndrome. (amazonaws.com)
When a person experiences extreme tiredness that isn't alleviated by rest or sleep, that person may very well have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or CFS. (amazonaws.com)
Despite CFS research that has been ongoing for nearly 20 years, there is yet no evidence found of the causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (amazonaws.com)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome usually affects four times more women than men, generally between the ages of 40 and 50, although it may also afflict individuals of all ages, genders, ethnicities, or socioeconomic groups. (amazonaws.com)
Diagnosing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has proved to be a very challenging dilemma for the medical community. (amazonaws.com)
There has been a huge amount of debate surrounding the issue of how to properly diagnose Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (amazonaws.com)
Objectives: Most previous research regarding chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and depression has relied on clinical samples. (fightingfatigue.org)
Chronic fatigue syndrome [ME/CFS] and depression share symptoms and may coexist - but thanks to new efforts spearheaded by the CDC, skilled clinicians can more easily tell them apart. (fightingfatigue.org)
Adolescents referred to Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center for behavioral treatment of migraine ( n = 179) or evaluation of chronic fatigue ( n = 97) were compared with a group of healthy controls of similar age and sex from a middle school ( n = 32). (aappublications.org)
Forty-six of the 97 chronically fatigued adolescents met 1994 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome (CDC-CFS), while 51 had idiopathic chronic fatigue syndrome (I-CFS) that did not meet full CDC criteria. (aappublications.org)
Adolescents referred to an academic center for evaluation of unexplained chronic fatigue had greater rates of school absenteeism than adolescents with migraine or healthy controls. (aappublications.org)
Unexplained chronic disabling fatigue, a predominantly adult disorder that appears to be relatively uncommon in adolescence and rare in childhood, is a perplexing problem for the pediatrician. (aappublications.org)
Objective To describe the prevalence of depression in children with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and investigate the relationship between depression in CFS/ME and clinical symptoms such as fatigue, disability, pain and school attendance. (bmj.com)
Chronic Fatigue IS Curable! (arielagroup.com)
I spent a year in bed with chronic fatigue syndrome and the constant pain of fibromyalgia. (arielagroup.com)

They combined dysthymia (mild, lingering depression not as severe as MDD) and chronic major depressive disorder (MDD that lasts two years or more) into one condition called persistent depressive disorder (PDD) . (healthcentral.com)
Doctors used to call this type of depression dysthymia , and people without medical degrees sometimes call it "smiling," "hidden," or "high-functioning" depression. (healthcentral.com)
Dysthymia: Are You Suffering From Chronic Depression? (mercola.com)
A] person with dysthymia tends to believe that depression is part of his or her character. (mercola.com)
The person with dysthymia may not even think to talk about this depression with doctors, family members or friends. (mercola.com)
9 Despite its symptoms being less severe than clinical depression, dysthymia should not be taken lightly because it can actually lead to the latter. (mercola.com)
According to Dr. David J. Hellerstein, a research psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, 80 to 90 percent of people with dysthymia develop major depression. (mercola.com)
Dysthymia is characterized by longstanding depression symptoms where the patient is depressed more days than not for a period of two years or longer. (healthyplace.com)
Dysthymia is defined as having depression most of the day, for most days, for two years or longer. (healthyplace.com)
Dysthymia is often called chronic depression due to its duration. (healthyplace.com)
Dysthymia was once considered less severe than major depression , and due to its elongated nature, its diagnosis was often missed. (healthyplace.com)
Similar to major depression, dysthymia impairs everyday functioning, increases the risk of death from physical disease and increases the risks of suicide. (healthyplace.com)
The causes of dysthymia have not been clearly established but dysthymia appears to share the some biological markers of major depression. (healthyplace.com)
In electroencephalogram (EEG) and polysomnogram testing, 25% of people with dysthymia disorder have sleep changes similar to those seen in major depression. (healthyplace.com)
Chronic stress and illness are associated with chronic depression (dysthymia) and it seems to run in families, occurring more often in women than in men. (healthyplace.com)
Long-term psychodynamic therapy can also help someone with dysthymia get to any issues underlying their chronic depression or other problems, such as substance abuse. (healthyplace.com)
The investigators are testing whether this medicine is also effective for adults with chronic depression (dysthymic disorder or dysthymia). (clinicaltrials.gov)
We review the controlled research on the effectiveness of treatments separately for dysthymia and chronic major depression, focusing on the practical implications of the research for clinicians. (unboundmedicine.com)
This form of depression is called persistent depressive disorder (or dysthymia ). (achievesolutions.net)

Given the shared brain circuitry, some scientists suggest that depression's emotional pain may get confused with signals of physical pain, effectively "tricking" someone with depression into experiencing chronic pain (or vice versa). (latimes.com)

Chronic depression" isn't technically a diagnosis in the DSM-5 , the official guide of mental disorders. (healthcentral.com)
Early diagnosis and treatment for depression can reduce distress, as well as any risk of suicide. (clevelandclinic.org)
With the BDI-II as the gold standard, the nurses' diagnosis of depression had an agreement of 74.6% vs. only 24.2% agreement with the nephrology team. (ingentaconnect.com)
A previous history of malignancy was the only variable associated with the diagnosis of depression. (ingentaconnect.com)
The subjects were 65 healthy sedentary controls, 71 CFS patients (41 with no axis-I diagnosis), 23 patients with mild MS, and 21 patients with major depression. (nih.gov)
Many ME/CFS patients have been misdiagnosed with depression before they are finally given the proper diagnosis of ME/CFS. (fightingfatigue.org)
In the year following the diagnosis of HCV in patients without known cirrhosis, nearly 25% of HCV patients experienced depression and 14% had a cirrhosis diagnosis reported. (natap.org)
Up to 1/3 of hemodialysis patients have depressive symptoms consistent with the diagnosis of depression. (renalandurologynews.com)
The standard for diagnosis of depression is direct interviewing. (renalandurologynews.com)
The criteria for making a diagnosis of major or minor depression are outlined by the DSM IV. (renalandurologynews.com)
Besides using a formal interview to make a diagnosis of depression, clinicians may consider using screening questions as a first step. (renalandurologynews.com)

The researchers also note that while they often occur together in adolescence, the relationship between depression and marijuana use is not clear. (medicalnewstoday.com)
The researchers argue that this could be because those studies have only assessed depression use at a single point in time, and not used a cumulative count. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Shock treatment can provide an effective alternative for people suffering from major depression who do not respond to conventional medications, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, claim. (deccanherald.com)
The researchers found that when individuals who suffered from early childhood adversity became depressed, their depression was accompanied by an inflammatory response. (eurekalert.org)
Using background data from different studies that associated diminished hyppocampus volume and increased hyppocamal oxidative stress with depression, the researchers focused on that area's biochemical activity as well as observing behavioral traits for this trial. (prisonplanet.com)
The depression risks for these chronic diseases were higher than that expected in the general population, the researchers said. (medpagetoday.com)
In reviewing the study's limitations, the researchers said that because the World Health Survey was cross-sectional, they could not determine what burden depression combined with other chronic diseases places on the health care system. (medpagetoday.com)
A drug that makes the body more sensitive to insulin helped to relieve symptoms of chronic depression in people resistant to the hormone, according to a study by researchers at the at the Stanford University School of Medicine. (eurekalert.org)
The insulin-sensitive subjects showed a decline in severity of depression regardless of whether they received pioglitazone or a placebo, the researchers found, and the difference in those two groups' improvement was statistically insignificant. (eurekalert.org)
The interrelation between burden and depression in family caregivers has been pointed out by previous researches in several chronic diseases and researchers agree that they clearly go together and one cannot talk about one without considering the other. (hindawi.com)
Researchers say that depression is just one barrier to getting patients to follow medication recommendations. (medicalxpress.com)
The researchers will see if DIALOG+ is acceptable by asking people with depression their opinions on the approach so they can adapt it to their needs. (isrctn.com)

Depression, defined as a persistent feeling of sadness, is a leading cause of disability worldwide (1). (cdc.gov)
She is particularly interested in investigating and enhancing protective factors involved in the prevention of and adjustment to chronic medical conditions and associated disability. (westernschools.com)
6 months duration, and normal school controls on measures of anxiety, depression, somatization, functional disability, and illness attribution. (aappublications.org)
In a multivariable analysis, the factors most strongly associated with depression were disability, with higher scores on the physical function subscale of the 36 item Short Form (SF-36). (bmj.com)
The case illustrates an example of a complex clinical presentation in which depression was an important contributor to symptoms and disability in an older adult with CLBP. (chiro.org)

More than half of people with chronic cough, a nagging cough that can last for months or even years, suffer from depressive symptoms, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference. (emaxhealth.com)
The study of 100 people with chronic cough that had lasted an average of 9 years found that 53% suffered from depressive symptoms. (emaxhealth.com)
The percentage of men and women with chronic cough who suffered from depressive symptoms was similar, according to study author Peter V. Dicpinigaitis, M.D., Director of the Montefiore Cough Center in the Bronx, NY. (emaxhealth.com)
CDRS is a 20-item clinician-rated inventory for chronic depressive symptoms. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Interviews and rating scales will be used to assess depressive symptoms, cognitive status, psychiatric comorbidity, daily and chronic stress, and social support. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Lower educational attainment is ship between low educational attainment and depression, but this associated with increased risk of depressive symptoms (3,4). (cdc.gov)
Previous studies assessing the monozygotic twins, having a college degree was associated with association between educational attainment and depression did not fewer depressive symptoms, suggesting this association may per- fully account for prior common determinants across the life course sist independent of other social and genetic factors (5). (cdc.gov)
The team used a standard depression scale called CES-D, in which scores of 16 or greater indicate significant depressive symptoms, to evaluate100 patients who were seen at an academic medical center because of chronic cough. (blackdoctor.org)
This study explored whether a progressive resistance training (PRT) program for post-stroke depression can reduce depressive symptoms and improve mental health, physical and social function and quality of life among chronic (6-12 months) stroke survivors. (beyondblue.org.au)

After controlling for comorbidity and estimated glomerular filtration rate, depression was still significantly associated with dialysis initiation, odds ratios for 6 and 12 months were 6.87 (1.80 to 26.21) and 7.82 (2.40 to 25.44), respectively. (medpagetoday.com)
The investigators believe this study will have significant value in the treatment of patients with non-major chronic depression, and will add significantly to what remains an extremely small scientific literature. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Furthermore, the volumes of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus have been reported in many studies to be significantly smaller in depressed patients and to be closely related to depression severity [ 15 - 17 ]. (hindawi.com)
In addition, individuals with depression in postmortem studies have also been observed to have a significantly reduced number of PFC synapses, which thus decreases synaptic functions [ 18 ]. (hindawi.com)
Adolescents with CDC-CFS had significantly higher anxiety scores than those with I-CFS or controls, and higher depression and somatization scores than all other groups. (aappublications.org)
Sets out clear recommendations for healthcare staff (based on the best available evidence) on how to diagnose and manage adults with a chronic physical health problem who have depression, in order to significantly improve their treatment and care. (e-booksdirectory.com)
The fourth controlled study found a significantly increased depression score among COPD patients. (bmj.com)
They combined information from 31 studies involving more than 18,000 people -- significantly more than past reviews to examine the link between medication adherence and depression. (medicalxpress.com)

Doyle F, McGee H, Delaney M, Motterlini N, Conroy R. Depressive vulnerabilities predict depression status and trajectories of depression over 1 year in persons with acute coronary syndrome. (springer.com)

People with recurrent depressions or those exposed to chronic stress exhibits shorter telomeres in white blood cells. (innovations-report.com)
The research team shows that shorter telomere length is associated with both recurrent depression and cortisol levels indicative of exposure to chronic stress. (innovations-report.com)
The study includes 91 patients with recurrent depression and 451 healthy controls. (innovations-report.com)

Efforts aimed at screening, diagnosing, and treating depression could potentially modify outcomes in this population. (ingentaconnect.com)
Point out that the study cannot determine causality and did not address whether treating depression would improve outcomes. (medpagetoday.com)
However, she said, it was unclear how depression should be treated in these patients and whether treating the depression would improve outcomes. (medpagetoday.com)
In a previous study, Dr. Hedayati's group found that about a quarter of hemodialysis patients had depression and that it was associated with worse outcomes. (medpagetoday.com)
How are Depression and Type D Personality Associated with Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure Patients? (springer.com)
This review aims to summarize the current evidence for the association of depression and Type D personality with clinical and patient-centred outcomes and self-care in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. (springer.com)
However, a rigorous study design is required to measure the incremental effects of HCV on the risk of depression and other adverse clinical outcomes. (natap.org)

Chronic illness covers a lot of issues, from migraines to cancer. (healthyplace.com)
is a unique, indispensable book that offers medical and practical advice for patients who suffer not only from Meniere, migraines, and depression but from any disabling, chronic illness.It is an inspirational and educational book. (smashwords.com)
She also possessed a slew of medical issues including Chronic Migraines and Depression which very frequently, co-occur in Meniere's patients. (smashwords.com)
Her gripping story also narrates very accurately the ongoing battle she has sustained over twenty years to conquer multiple chronic conditions associated with Meniere such as Migraines and Depression. (smashwords.com)

Prev Chronic Dis 2018;15:170581. (cdc.gov)

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The approach to treatment of depression is framed by the severity of depression, suicidal ideation, presence of social support and other chronic health conditions. (renalandurologynews.com)

The patient first manifested chronic depression in 1972 when she attempted suicide. (bmj.com)
When a suicide occurs, or when an attempt occurs, there are no records to show that a chronic illness was also present. (healthyplace.com)

Antidepressant medications and at least some forms of psychotherapy are efficacious in treating chronic depression, and the combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy appears to be superior to either monotherapy alone. (springer.com)
The success of antidepressant treatment - like any other treatment - cannot be guaranteed, but most people who are treated for depression will recover. (clevelandclinic.org)
Many antidepressant medicines are available to treat depression. (clevelandclinic.org)
The investigators are studying a new antidepressant medicine, desvenlafaxine, for the treatment of people with chronic depression. (clinicaltrials.gov)
TMS is primarily for people who have not experienced relief from depression through the use of antidepressant medications. (healthcanal.com)
TMS has been shown to be an extremely safe treatment for depression, with far fewer side effects than antidepressant medications," said Morales. (healthcanal.com)
MEASUREMENTS: Adequate depression treatment is defined as receiving eight psychotherapy sessions or filling at least four antidepressant prescriptions at a minimally adequate dosage. (rti.org)

The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of depression, as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), the primary nurse, and nephrology team, among a cohort of patients receiving chronic hemodialysis (HD). (ingentaconnect.com)
Prevalence of depression in respondents based on ICD-10 criteria was estimated. (nih.gov)
This systematic review was conducted to achieve a more definite answer to the question: do patients with COPD show a higher than normal prevalence of depression? (bmj.com)
Three of the case-control studies reported an increased prevalence of depression among patients with COPD which was statistically significant in only one. (bmj.com)
Of the remaining six uncontrolled studies three found a high baseline prevalence of depression among their study group. (bmj.com)
The prevalence of depression was high compared with general population figures in three of six non-controlled studies. (bmj.com)
Several non-systematic overviews of the literature on this subject have been published, 5-10 in all of which a high prevalence of depression has been described. (bmj.com)
The present review was conducted to answer the following question: do patients with COPD show a higher prevalence of depression than those who do not suffer from COPD? (bmj.com)

Screening for depression in chronic hemodialysis patients: Compar. (ingentaconnect.com)

Agreement between the BDI-II score, nurse, and nephrology team assessment of depression was compared using a kappa score and receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated. (ingentaconnect.com)
The first step in treating depression is to have a healthcare professional perform an assessment. (childrens.com)
The 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) is a rater-administered assessment of depression severity, with total score ranges from 0 (not at all depressed) to 52 (most severely depressed). (clinicaltrials.gov)
Future research may benefit from taking inconsistencies in and problems with assessment of depression and Type D into account, as well as focusing on the network of psychophysiological and behavioural factors to elucidate their precise role in CHF patients with depression or Type D. Furthermore, it is advised that clinicians address the observed differences in self-care behaviours to improve health in CHF patients with depression or Type D personality. (springer.com)
Design Cross-sectional survey data using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) collected at assessment. (bmj.com)
Depression severity and history were confirmed by psychiatric assessment. (beyondblue.org.au)
Measures of psychological distress using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and self-efficacy were also taken at assessment, on the final day of the programme, and at the follow up six-month review. (brightsurf.com)
If a patient screens in using these simple instruments, then the team can make a more formal assessment of depression. (renalandurologynews.com)
Spirituality was assessed by using the WHOQOL Spirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs (WHOQOL-SRPB) and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT-Sp). (mdpi.com)

Depression prevalence was determined on the basis of ICD-10 criteria, while the prevalence for four chronic physical diseases-angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes-was estimated from a Diagnostic Item Probability Study. (medpagetoday.com)
For example, of those with diabetes, 9.3% also had depression. (medpagetoday.com)
Prevalence values for four chronic physical diseases--angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes--were also estimated using algorithms derived via a Diagnostic Item Probability Study. (nih.gov)
Depression produces the greatest decrement in health compared with the chronic diseases angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes. (nih.gov)
People with a chronic physical health problem (e.g. cancer, diabetes) are three times more likely to develop depression. (e-booksdirectory.com)

It is important to deal with the stress, and treat both the chronic illness and depression at the same time. (horizonblue.com)
Describe the implications of chronic illness and depression on physical and occupational therapy practice. (westernschools.com)

Let's dive into this persistent form of depression and why you should never give up on getting better. (healthcentral.com)
However, recent research points to the possibility that some people who tick all the boxes for MDD-which requires depression for just two weeks-have been suffering from a persistent disorder rather than an episodic one all along. (healthcentral.com)
Depression is not the same as being a little sad over a specific incident - the feelings associated with depression are persistent and chronic. (shtfplan.com)

People suffering from depression are no different-instead of viewing the need for therapy or medication as a failure, it's best to consider it as a temporary treatment plan so the person can heal. (lifehack.org)
Can medication help someone with chronic depression? (zocdoc.com)
The purpose of MRI imaging in this study is to see whether chronic depression is associated with differences in brain structure or functioning, and whether such differences change after medication or placebo treatment. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The study is the largest systematic review to date to look at the role that depression plays in medication adherence among patients in the United States. (medicalxpress.com)
Doctors and other providers should periodically ask patients with depression about medication adherence. (medicalxpress.com)
Also, when treating a patient who is not taking their medication correctly, they should consider the possibility that depression is contributing to the problem. (medicalxpress.com)
The study is the first to review the association between depression and medication adherence for patients with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. (medicalxpress.com)

It is also a psychological treatment for depression and helps you change negative thoughts and develop coping skills. (aarp.org)
If so, specific treatment for depression may be unnecessary. (clevelandclinic.org)

Depression is known to be related to unhealthy behaviors that increase cardiovascular risk, such as physical inactivity and smoking, but Glymour doesn't believe these fully explain their findings. (cnn.com)
The findings suggest that if we can prevent or reduce chronic depression during early adolescence, we may reduce the prevalence of cannabis-use disorder. (medicalnewstoday.com)
While our research investigates structural neuroplasticity in depression in response to ECT, our findings are considered to be of much broader interest to the field," Joshi added. (deccanherald.com)
However, their findings are equally supportive of 'standard' Cognitive Therapy for chronic depression. (behavior.net)
Previous studies have linked depression and inflammation, particularly in individuals who have experienced early childhood adversity, but overall, findings have been inconsistent. (eurekalert.org)
Dr. Miller commented on their findings: "What's important about this study is that it identifies a group of people who are prone to have depression and inflammation at the same time. (eurekalert.org)
Further research is necessary, to extend the findings beyond female adolescents and particularly in individuals with more severe, long-term depression. (eurekalert.org)
However, findings such as these may eventually help doctors and clinicians better manage depression and medical illness for particularly vulnerable patients. (eurekalert.org)
In Knit for Peace's own survey, their findings rang true to the research: 86 percent of respondents said that knitting helped them relax while roughly 30 percent claimed that it helped reduce anxiety and blood pressure, as well as counter depression. (marthastewart.com)
The findings indicate that accelerated cell aging does not occur in all depressed individuals, but is dependent upon how long someone is depressed, particularly if that depression goes untreated. (scienceblog.com)
of education's effect on risk of depression after controlling for a Our findings suggest that the social forces that constrain education may thorough set of confounders and mediators. (cdc.gov)
Additionally, our findings support other research that advance the study of social determinants of depression. (cdc.gov)
Published in the June 2016 issue of Quality of Life Research , their findings suggest that "psychological distress impacts a person's quality of life as much, or more, than having a chronic condition. (unityrehab.com)
These findings provide the best evidence to date that depression is an important risk factor that may influence whether patients adhere to their medications," said Dr. Walid F. Gellad, the study's senior author and a natural scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. (medicalxpress.com)

Research suggests CBD may help relieve depression. (shtfplan.com)

Relationship of depression to death or hospitalization in patients with heart failure. (springer.com)
Depression among those already on dialysis has been associated with higher rates of hospitalization and death. (renalandurologynews.com)

Doctors call this "double depression. (healthcentral.com)
This is called "double depression. (mercola.com)

Success stories by an esteemed journal have a positive impact on doctors and motivate them in picking up and treating depression. (bmj.com)
Dicpinigaitis' team suggests that doctors keep an eye out for depression in people who have chronic cough, and that they should "exercise judgment in deciding whether appropriate mental health referral is necessary, regardless of the outcome of treatment for chronic cough. (blackdoctor.org)

And a new study f rom the American Heart Association says the risk seems to remain high even after the depression goes away. (cnn.com)
This study tells us that if you have a high depression screening score, you have more than a two-fold increase in risk of stroke," said AHA spokesperson Dr. Philip Gorelick, medical director of Mercy Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (cnn.com)
Now, a new study that examines the cumulative effect of depression in young teenagers finds that it is linked to a higher likelihood of developing marijuana-use disorder as they reach adulthood. (medicalnewstoday.com)
A large-scale study found that early risers had a 12 to 27 percent lower risk for developing depression and late risers had a 6 percent higher risk, compared with intermediate risers. (healthline.com)
This is the first study to look at the link between cough and depression. (emaxhealth.com)
But a recent study in Cairo, Egypt has uncovered an unusual property of Co-Q10 that is rather surprising: It eliminates depression and anxiety. (prisonplanet.com)
In a pilot study published in 2010, Rasgon and her associates found that administering a similar drug, rosiglitazone, to depressed patients who were insulin-resistant alleviated their depression. (eurekalert.org)
Chronic rhinosinusitis is associated with incidence of depression and anxiety, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery . (doctorslounge.com)
More particularly, in the present study, the caregiver burden, the depression, anxiety, and also health-related quality of life and demographic factors of spouses of patients with CKD were examined, using self-report questionnaires. (hindawi.com)
This study suggests a possible causal effect of depression on COPD exacerbations and hospitalizations. (unboundmedicine.com)
This study was conducted to explore the spirituality, QOL, and depression of Thai CKD patients, and the associations between spirituality, QOL, and depression. (mdpi.com)
This study aims to develop a new approach to help people with depression. (isrctn.com)
Following this, they will conduct a study with nine staff members and 45 patients with depression to gain further experience with DIALOG+ and check whether a larger study testing it would be possible. (isrctn.com)
It is not known whether participants will experience any direct benefits from taking part in this study, but it is hoped that they will enjoy and value their role in helping to test a new treatment and providing their thoughts on how it can be developed further to be a more effective treatment for long-term depression. (isrctn.com)

Eventually, the combination of sustained anxiety and lack of sleep will cause depression," Hanscom adds. (healthline.com)

How likely is the development of depression in patients with COPD? (bmj.com)

The good news is that the depression seems to lift as the cough improves. (blackdoctor.org)

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