• About 15% of women experience postpartum depression after giving birth . (webmd.com)
  • With professional help, almost all women who experience postpartum depression are able to overcome their symptoms. (webmd.com)
  • McGuffin PKatz RWatkins SRutherford J A hospital-based twin register of the heritability of DSM-IV unipolar depression. (jamanetwork.com)
  • PURPOSE Although screening for unipolar depression is controversial, it is potentially an efficient way to find undetected cases and improve diagnostic acumen. (annfammed.org)
  • Unipolar depression is second only to stroke as the leading cause of disability-adjusted life years. (annfammed.org)
  • Biosignal analysis has been successfully used to characterise EEG signals of unipolar depression patients. (intechopen.com)
  • A discussion on the reliability of the use of energy distribution and Relative Wavelet Energy calculations for distinguishing unipolar depression patients from healthy controls is presented. (intechopen.com)
  • Unipolar depression is observed in 7% of the US adult population for CVD risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Brown GWHarris TO Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorder in Women . (jamanetwork.com)
  • Cadoret RJWoolson RWinokur G The relationship of age of onset in unipolar affective disorder to risk of alcoholism and depression in parents. (jamanetwork.com)
  • If you have noticed significant changes in your mood and behavior whenever the seasons change, you may be suffering from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression . (nih.gov)
  • SAD is not considered a separate disorder but is a type of depression characterized by its recurrent seasonal pattern, with symptoms lasting about 4 to 5 months per year. (nih.gov)
  • It is a perplexing mental illness that has both features of schizophrenia (eg, hallucinations, delusions, and distorted thinking) and features of a mood disorder (eg, depression or mania). (medscape.com)
  • An accurate diagnosis is made when the patient meets criteria for major depressive disorder or mania while also meeting the criteria for schizophrenia. (medscape.com)
  • Studies on pharmacotherapy for youths with major depressive disorder are few. (medscape.com)
  • Pediatric depression in the form of childhood and adolescent major depressive disorder (MDD) is a relatively common psychiatric condition that can continue episodically into adulthood. (medscape.com)
  • Major depressive disorder - also known as clinical depression - is a mental disorder characterized by prolonged depressed mood and accompanied by a number of symptoms that interfere with normal human life. (wepapers.com)
  • based on a face-to-face survey conducted from December 2001 to December 2002, the past-year prevalence rate of clinically significant major depressive disorder (MDD) was estimated to be 6.6%, affecting at least 13.1 to 14.2 million Americans. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • The term 'double depression' was introduced by Keller and colleagues 3 in 1982 to describe patients with MDD and a preexisting chronic minor depression (now called dysthymic disorder). (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a mood disorder characterized by a continuous low mood. (mentalhealth.com)
  • A diagnosis of major depressive disorder can be made if at least five of the following DSM criteria are met. (mentalhealth.com)
  • Situational depression, clinically known as adjustment disorder with depressed mood , is when an individual shows signs of depression following a stressful life event or circumstance. (mentalhealth.com)
  • Depression (also known as major depression or major depressive disorder) is a psychiatric disorder that affects mood, behavior, and overall health. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Although depression is considered primarily a mental health disorder, it can also have physical features including headaches, other unexplained aches and pains, unusually slow or fast movements, and digestive problems. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In people with schizoaffective disorder , depression or another mood disorder occurs together with features of schizophrenia (a brain disorder that affects a person's thinking, sense of self, and perceptions). (medlineplus.gov)
  • Imaging studies of major depressive disorder have reported structural and functional abnormalities in a variety of spatially diverse brain regions. (psychiatryonline.org)
  • A total of 92 publications reporting 152 experiments were identified, collectively representing 2,928 patients with major depressive disorder. (psychiatryonline.org)
  • Major depressive disorder is the single largest contributor to disability worldwide, affecting as many as 300 million people annually ( 1 ). (psychiatryonline.org)
  • Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric disease that affects 10-15% of people worldwide at least once in their lifetime ( Lépine and Briley, 2011 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • It found that, terms of years lived with disability, major depression, termed 'unipolar major depression', clearly turned out to be the most important disorder. (second-opinions.co.uk)
  • Depression is a life-threatening disorder. (second-opinions.co.uk)
  • At least 10% of people in the U.S. will experience major depressive disorder at some point in their lives. (stanford.edu)
  • While not everyone who faces these stresses develops a mood disorder - in fact, most do not - stress plays an important role in depression. (harvard.edu)
  • Follow-up surveys at 1, 3, and 6 months posttreatment between September 2019 to March 2021 measured symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cognitive functioning, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and quality of life. (medscape.com)
  • The present study investigates how consistently DSM-IV major depressive disorder (MDD) with psychosis was diagnosed by research consensus across 10 years and the association of clinical characteristics with diagnostic consistency. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Depression is categorized as a mood disorder. (pharmacology2000.com)
  • Do genetic risk profiles for drug use disorder (DUD), major depression (MD), and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) differ substantially as a function of sex, age at onset (AAO), recurrence, mode of ascertainment, and treatment? (lu.se)
  • article{761dc44d-9492-4dfa-8ca1-83dbd500559e, abstract = {{Do genetic risk profiles for drug use disorder (DUD), major depression (MD), and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) differ substantially as a function of sex, age at onset (AAO), recurrence, mode of ascertainment, and treatment? (lu.se)
  • The association of treatment resistance with physical and psychiatric comorbidities remains unclear in elderly patients with late-onset major depressive disorder (MDD). (psychiatrist.com)
  • A change in rapid eye movement sleeping pattern as measured by quantitative EEG in patients with major depressive disorder after just a single week on a first-line antidepressant predicts eventual clinical response or nonresponse to the medication weeks later, Thorsten Mikoteit, MD, reported at the virtual congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. (medscape.com)
  • At ECNP 2020, Dr. Mikoteit presented preliminary results from an ongoing randomized, controlled trial including 37 patients hospitalized for major depressive disorder. (medscape.com)
  • Of note, in the landmark National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression ( STAR*D ) study, slightly less than half of patients with major depressive disorder achieved a treatment response to their first-line antidepressant, and it took an average of 6 weeks of therapy to do. (medscape.com)
  • According to a recent study, one-third of cancer patients suffer from anxiety, depression, or adjustment disorder in the months following their diagnosis. (dickinson.edu)
  • Similarly, major depressive disorder is 30-40% heritable. (dickinson.edu)
  • Individuals with late-adolescent/early adult onset of the disorder will very likely have experienced childhood anxiety and depression. (t-vox.org)
  • Major or clinical depression is a serious mood disorder characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness or hopelessness, a loss of interest or pleasure in favorite activities, and feelings of worthlessness or guilt. (michaelmruz.com)
  • ABSTRACT The Major Depression Inventory (MDI) is a brief questionnaire to assess the presence of a depressive disorder. (who.int)
  • We prepared an Arabic version of the MDI and tested its reliability and concurrent and discriminant validity as a diagnostic tool of major depressive disorder. (who.int)
  • Many of the MDI algorithm translated version on Major Depression Inventory, Arabic existing instruments in common use a group of Egyptian outpatients with version (MDI-A) to diagnose major depressive disorder major depression and a group of healthy The MDI used here was the Arabic belong to the era before development controls. (who.int)
  • It is important to note that the majority of patients in our study did not meet criteria for diagnosis of major depressive disorder, but many still experienced suboptimal outcomes," Dr. Cash said. (medscape.com)
  • SAD is more common in people who have relatives with other mental illnesses, such as major depression or schizophrenia. (nih.gov)
  • if you were to have schizophrenia, there's a 60-87% chance that one of your immediate relatives will develop symptoms, too. (dickinson.edu)
  • We recently showed that measures of cannabinoid 1 receptor (CB1R) mRNA and protein were significantly reduced in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) area 9 in schizophrenia subjects relative to matched normal comparison subjects. (nih.gov)
  • CB1R immunoreactivity levels in area 46 were significantly 19% lower in schizophrenia subjects relative to matched normal comparison subjects, a deficit similar to that observed in area 9 in the same subjects. (nih.gov)
  • In a new cohort of subjects, CB1R immunoreactivity levels were significantly 20 and 23% lower in schizophrenia subjects relative to matched comparison and MDD subjects, respectively. (nih.gov)
  • Also, there can be no major depressive episode during the first 2 years of the disturbance (1 year for children and adolescents). (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • In one report from that project, 431 patients with a major depressive episode were monitored for 12 years, assessed every 6 months, and assigned to 1 of 4 symptom levels of depressive illness: major depression, dysthymia, subsyndromal symptoms, or no symptoms. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • five men, seven women) with a major depressive episode according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Society of Psychiatry (DSM IV) criteria participated. (bmj.com)
  • In 2017, 13.3% of teens ages 12 to 17 reported at least one major depressive episode in the previous year. (webmd.com)
  • Dysthymia involves fewer symptoms than occur in a major depressive episode, but it is persistent and longstanding and often can be as disabling as major depression. (webmd.com)
  • Participants ( N = 42) met diagnostic criteria for a current major depressive episode and were randomly assigned to CT + PT or PT. (uwo.ca)
  • All patients who receive antidepressants for a major depressive episode (MDE) should be monitored for signs of abnormal behavioral activation or psychomotor acceleration. (medscape.com)
  • Problems with your thyroid or nutrient deficiencies may be associated with an increased risk of depression. (familydoctor.org)
  • Researchers suspect that studies with many more people will be required to pinpoint the genetic variations that influence the risk of depression. (medlineplus.gov)
  • We can also look at adoption studies, to see whether an adopted person's risk of depression is greater if a biological parent had depression. (stanford.edu)
  • There are probably many non-genetic factors that increase risk of depression, many of which are probably not yet known. (stanford.edu)
  • When a patient is diagnosed with depression, I'm trained to provide care ranging from prescribing antidepressants to helping find other resources. (familydoctor.org)
  • According to the American Psychiatric Association ("Depression", n.d.), the most common treatments for MDD include antidepressants, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive therapy (in cases when the patient is resistant to other medications). (wepapers.com)
  • Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) was defined as unresponsiveness to at least 2 antidepressants, and treatment-resistant tendency (TRT) was defined as unresponsiveness to the first antidepressant. (psychiatrist.com)
  • A group of scientists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City decided to take a closer look at alternative herbal remedies to treat anxiety and depression in cancer patients. (dickinson.edu)
  • By gathering and organizing the data, they noticed that not only are several alternative remedies helpful in ameliorating anxiety and depression, they also counteract aversive effects of chemotherapy and even combat cancer themselves. (dickinson.edu)
  • It has also been successful in easing anxiety and depression caused by PMS in women. (dickinson.edu)
  • The symptoms of depression may be different for children, teens, and seniors. (familydoctor.org)
  • Evidence from mostly small observational studies suggests that microdosing psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, can improve cognitive function and alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • For instance, there is some evidence to suggest that lion's mane mushrooms could alleviate symptoms of depression and mild cognitive impairment. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • For persons with subdiagnostic symptoms of depression, bibliotherapy may be an appropriate, severity-matched, and less-intensive first alternative to traditional services. (jmir.org)
  • This means that even mild symptoms of depression may interfere with head and neck cancer treatment outcomes. (medscape.com)
  • 1 Although many patients with recurrent episodes of illness have good symptom remission between episodes, with few residual symptoms, approximately a quarter of patients with major depression have chronic residual depressive symptoms of varying severity with only incomplete remission for many years. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • a level of distress that is considered extreme relative to the severity of the stressful event or 2. (mentalhealth.com)
  • The intervention and control groups were comparable in terms of age, sex, and severity of depression, with an average baseline HAMD score of 22. (medscape.com)
  • The hazard ratio for onset of major depression (MD) vs the co-twin of a twin with 1 lifetime episode of MD. The hazard ratio is presented as a function of the number of episodes of lifetime MD reported by the index twin. (jamanetwork.com)
  • If untreated, episodes of depression can last for weeks, months, or years, and can go away and come back (recur). (medlineplus.gov)
  • Episodes of depression tend to last longer, for between six and twelve months. (monsenso.com)
  • When a patient with a history of manic episodes requires an antidepressant because of a serious depression, the doctor needs to be very careful, prescribing a low dose and closely monitoring the patient for any signs of a mood shift toward the mixed or manic side of the spectrum. (t-vox.org)
  • Defined by the presence of major depressive episodes with at least one hypomanic episode but no full-fledged manic episodes. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In the test were involved 32 patients from Northwestern General Internal Medicine clinics aged from 21 to 79 years, who had previously been diagnosed with clinical depression by the usual method, and 32 not depressed control participants "matched by age, race and sex" (Redei et al. (wepapers.com)
  • Objective -To evaluate the short term effects of a training programme on patients with moderate to severe major depression. (bmj.com)
  • For selected patients with moderate to severe major depression, aerobic exercise may result in a substantial improvement in symptoms in a short time. (bmj.com)
  • Patients with major depression in usual care were more likely to die than were those without depression (hazard ratio 1.90, 95% confidence interval 1.57 to 2.31). (bmj.com)
  • In contrast, patients with major depression in intervention practices were at no greater risk than were people without depression (hazard ratio 1.09, 0.83 to 1.44). (bmj.com)
  • Input data were grouped into three primary meta-analytic classes: gray matter atrophy, increased function, and decreased function in patients with major depression relative to healthy control subjects. (psychiatryonline.org)
  • METHODS Consecutive adult patients attending Auckland family practices completed the PHQ-9, after which they completed the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) depression reference standard. (annfammed.org)
  • A PHQ-9 score of 10 or higher appears to detect more depressed patients than the originally described PHQ-9 scoring for major depression. (annfammed.org)
  • The aim of this study was to find out whether data gathered before and during/after the lockdown among in-patients with major depression differ with regard to psychosocial health, physical activity and related attitudes and to establish whether baseline data have been affected by the lockdown. (frontiersin.org)
  • Physically inactive, adult in-patients diagnosed with major depression were recruited from four Swiss psychiatric clinics between January 2019 and December 2020. (frontiersin.org)
  • Baseline data gathered in in-patients suffering from major depression who are physically inactive upon admission to in-patient treatment in Switzerland seem to be unaffected by the COVID-19-induced lockdown. (frontiersin.org)
  • Patients would receive the best medication for their type of depression. (harvard.edu)
  • Epidemiological and clinical studies have found associations between depression and cardiovascular disease risk factors, and coronary artery disease patients with depression have worse prognosis. (plos.org)
  • Major depression in elderly home health care patients. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Response speed and rate of remission in primary and specialty care of elderly patients with depression. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Placebo-controlled study of relapse prevention with risperidone augmentation in older patients with resistant depression. (psychiatrist.com)
  • There is a huge unmet need for a biomarker predictive of response to antidepressant medication in patients with major depression , the psychiatrist added. (medscape.com)
  • The higher values of signal energy associated with the delta bands of depression patients in the lower frequency range are regarded as a major characteristic indicative of a state of depression. (intechopen.com)
  • Patients with head and neck cancer have depression rates that are among the highest of all cancer patients, and growing evidence supports the relation between depression and early mortality. (medscape.com)
  • HLA Genotyping in Romanian Adult Patients with Celiac Disease, their First-degree Relatives and Healthy Persons. (cdc.gov)
  • The most effective talk therapy for clinical depression is cognitive-behavioral or interpersonal psychotherapy. (wepapers.com)
  • Intervention For two years, a depression care manager worked with primary care physicians in intervention practices to provide algorithm based care for depression, offering psychotherapy, increasing antidepressant dose if indicated, and monitoring symptoms, adverse effects of drugs, and adherence to treatment. (bmj.com)
  • Clinical Depression can be treated with psychotherapy, medication, or a combination of both. (michaelmruz.com)
  • Psychotherapy, sometimes referred to as "talk therapy" or counseling, is a vital component of treating clinical depression. (michaelmruz.com)
  • While adverse childhood circumstances, biologic processes, and genetic factors all play a role in the development of depression, the final common pathways to depression involve neurochemical changes in the brain. (medscape.com)
  • Firstly, hereditary genetic factors predispose to depression and reduced stress resistances. (wepapers.com)
  • Depression is known to run in families, suggesting that genetic factors contribute to the risk of developing this disease. (medlineplus.gov)
  • However, research into the genetics of depression is in its early stages, and very little is known for certain about the genetic basis of the disease. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Determining the genetic risk factors for depression is challenging for several reasons. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The genetic variations related to depression may also be somewhat different between men and women. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This could mean that in most cases of depression, around 50% of the cause is genetic, and around 50% is unrelated to genes (psychological or physical factors). (stanford.edu)
  • Mood is affected by dozens of genes, and as our genetic endowments differ, so do our depressions. (harvard.edu)
  • The genetic relationship between depression and these cardiovascular phenotypes is not known. (plos.org)
  • Depression shared 68% of genetic variants with body mass index and 14% and with systolic blood pressure. (plos.org)
  • Relationship Between a Vitamin D Genetic Risk Score and Autoantibodies Among First-Degree Relatives of Probands With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. (cdc.gov)
  • A distinctive profile of family genetic risk scores in a Swedish national sample of cases of fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome compared to rheumatoid arthritis and major depression. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions Older adults with major depression in practices provided with additional resources to intensively manage depression had a mortality risk lower than that observed in usual care and similar to older adults without depression. (bmj.com)
  • Intensive, repetitive stress situations, trauma or loss of someone of something significant may also trigger the symptoms of the clinical depression. (wepapers.com)
  • Even though the majority of people face these symptoms from time to time, we can assume the fact of clinical depression if they last more than two weeks. (wepapers.com)
  • In 2014, the researchers from the Northwestern University of Chicago created the test to diagnose clinical depression based on nine levels of RNA biomarkers in the blood (Redei et al. (wepapers.com)
  • Clinical Depression often begins in adulthood, and in older adults may occur in tandem with other serious medical conditions. (michaelmruz.com)
  • Even the most severe cases of Clinical Depression can be treated, and treatment is most effective when it is started early. (michaelmruz.com)
  • Every individual is affected by clinical depression in their own way, and treatment must be customized to the individual. (michaelmruz.com)
  • If you or someone you know is experiencing any of these symptoms and wish to seek treatment for clinical depression, please contact me for an evaluation. (michaelmruz.com)
  • All underwent baseline evaluation using the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) and were placed on the first-line antidepressant of their psychiatrist's choice. (medscape.com)
  • Randomized clinical trials suggest that cognitive therapy (CT) is comparable to antidepressant medication for the acute treatment of depression. (uwo.ca)
  • A general problem of reports on the effects of exercise on depression is the lack of information about the psychiatric diagnosis of participants according to standard references-for example, the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of the American Society of Psychiatry (DSM IV). (bmj.com)
  • Nous avons élaboré une version en langue arabe de ce questionnaire et avons testé sa fiabilité et sa validité concurrente et discriminante en tant qu'outil diagnostic d'un trouble dépressif majeur. (who.int)
  • The findings suggest replicable neuroimaging features associated with major depression, beyond the transdiagnostic effects reported in previous meta-analyses, and support a continued research focus on the subgenual cingulate and other selected regions' role in depression. (psychiatryonline.org)
  • No significant effect on mortality was found for minor depression. (bmj.com)
  • Prospective studies have consistently shown an association between depression and increased mortality in older adults. (bmj.com)
  • 1 2 The biological, social, psychological, and behavioral mechanisms that mediate the effect of depression on mortality have only recently begun to be elucidated. (bmj.com)
  • 3 4 A strong association exists between depression in late life and factors that increase mortality risk, such as poor adherence to medical treatment and self care for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, 5 health behaviors such as smoking and lack of physical activity, 6 cognitive impairment, 7 and disability. (bmj.com)
  • Depression is a major public health issue and is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and economic burden. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Depression in these settings may inhibit rehabilitation and contribute to enhanced morbidity and mortality. (pharmacology2000.com)
  • Suicide is a major preventable public health problem and cause of mortality. (netce.com)
  • The sooner you seek treatment, the sooner the depression will lift. (familydoctor.org)
  • Early diagnosis and treatment helps keep depression from getting worse or lasting a long time. (familydoctor.org)
  • Treatment can help prevent depression from coming back. (familydoctor.org)
  • In recent years, there has been a resurgence of scientific and popular interest in the potential use of psychedelic drugs for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • No matter the cause‚ smoking is not a treatment for depression or anxiety. (cdc.gov)
  • Treatment for depression can help reduce symptoms and shorten how long the depression lasts. (cdc.gov)
  • 2 There is evidence that chronic depression is more familial, more refractory to treatment, and more impairing than episodic major depression. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Objective To investigate whether an intervention to improve treatment of depression in older adults in primary care modified the increased risk of death associated with depression. (bmj.com)
  • 2 There is a relative paucity of information on treatment of late-life treatment-resistant depression (TRD). (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Even neuroscience last two decade has made epochal advancement in the discovering of many secrets of etiopathogenezis of depression, that are useful in satisfying treatment of depression, the problem of ignorant and neglected attitudes into community toward mental difficulties remain still disturbing. (healthyplace.com)
  • The PHQ-9 is a potentially valuable tool for diagnosis and management of depression because it can generate a diagnosis of major depression, as well a continuous score to monitor treatment. (annfammed.org)
  • Primary care contact may represent the last opportunity for intervention in the severely depressed suicidal patient, making the thorough comprehension of identification and treatment of depression and suicide risk imperative. (netce.com)
  • Geriatric depression treatment in nonresponders to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. (psychiatrist.com)
  • But ongoing sadness or despair can be caused by depression, a serious condition that warrants treatment. (webmd.com)
  • Because of its disabling effects and the possibility of suicide, major depression often requires medical treatment. (webmd.com)
  • In other words, there is no single pre-defined depression treatment that works for everyone. (michaelmruz.com)
  • Depressive symptoms at the time of treatment planning were associated with a relative 13.2% reduction in 2-year overall survival, according to the January 22 Cancer online report. (medscape.com)
  • Self-reported data from more than 1.3 million employees indicate that 30% experienced some depression or were in treatment (1,11,12). (cdc.gov)
  • The sample included 146 participants, part of a larger first-admission cohort (N = 628) presenting to a psychiatric inpatient facility with psychosis, who were diagnosed with psychotic depression at least once across 4 assessments spanning 10 years (after first admission and at 6-month, 24-month, and 10-year follow-ups). (psychiatrist.com)
  • Participants in both groups were free to obtain nonexperimental, usual care services for their depression. (jmir.org)
  • All participants completed an on-line version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) at enrollment and at 4-, 8-, 16- and 32-weeks after enrollment. (jmir.org)
  • Lastly, a version of the final text will be given to the participants to share with any loved person (family members, friends, relatives, etc. (who.int)
  • Bland RCNewman SCOrn H Recurrent and nonrecurrent depression: a family study. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The situation is a little different if the parent or sibling has had depression more than once ("recurrent depression"), and if the depression started relatively early in life (childhood, teens or twenties). (stanford.edu)
  • Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for depression may be soon greater than that observed for cancer or HIV-related disease. (pharmacology2000.com)
  • MAY 2022 sion and CVD are associated with premature death, and both are prognostic for incident CVD (5), we compared CVD risk for both principal contributors to the rise in disability-adjusted life years mild and major depression relative to people without depression. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods of characterisation of EEG signals and the use of nonlinear parameters are the major highlights of this chapter. (intechopen.com)
  • Although this term appears commonly in the clinical literature and comes closest to reflecting the clinical reality of chronic depression, it is not a DSM diagnosis and must be captured in DSM-IV by assigning 2 diagnoses (MDD and dysthymia). (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • In a randomized study, Richardson et al compared outcomes in adolescents with depression treated in primary care with either twelve months of a collaborative care intervention (n = 50) or usual care (n = 51). (medscape.com)
  • Results In baseline clinical interviews, 396 people were classified as having major depression, 203 had clinically significant minor depression, and 627 did not meet criteria for depression. (bmj.com)
  • Therefore, the signs and symptoms of SAD include those associated with major depression, and some specific symptoms that differ for winter-pattern and summer-pattern SAD. (nih.gov)
  • Heritability is probably 40-50%, and might be higher for severe depression. (stanford.edu)
  • We created an Internet-based, cognitive therapy, self-help program to be used as a stand-alone intervention for mild-to-moderate depression, or as an adjunct to traditional services for more severe depression. (jmir.org)
  • For persons with more severe depression, it may be a valuable augmentation to traditional services. (jmir.org)
  • In fact, a recent meta-analysis of bibliotherapy for emotional/behavioral problems, including depression, found that bibliotherapy was as effective as therapist-administered treatments [ 5 ], although it is possible that this finding is true only for less-severe depression. (jmir.org)
  • 8 Investigators seeking to understand the biological mechanisms linking depression and medical conditions have drawn attention to cardiovascular, immunologic, inflammatory, metabolic, and neuroendocrine pathways. (bmj.com)
  • In respect of lost years due to premature death, 'unipolar major depression' ranked second only to cardiovascular diseases. (second-opinions.co.uk)
  • We here investigated overlap at the genome-wide level and in individual loci between depression, coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk factors. (plos.org)
  • We used the bivariate causal mixture model (MiXeR) to quantify genome-wide polygenic overlap and the conditional/conjunctional false discovery rate (pleioFDR) method to identify shared loci, based on genome-wide association study summary statistics on depression (n = 450,619), coronary artery disease (n = 502,713) and nine cardiovascular risk factors (n = 204,402-776,078). (plos.org)
  • ConjFDR identified 79 unique loci associated with depression and coronary artery disease or cardiovascular risk factors. (plos.org)
  • Our results showed polygenic overlap between depression, coronary artery disease and several cardiovascular risk factors and suggest molecular mechanisms underlying the association between depression and increased cardiovascular disease risk. (plos.org)
  • Studies have found associations between depression and both cardiovascular disease risk factors and worse cardiovascular disease prognosis. (plos.org)
  • We applied novel statistical tools for polygenic architectures to investigate if there are common genes for depression, coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk factors (body mass index, blood pressure, lipids, type 2 diabetes and c-reactive protein). (plos.org)
  • Depression is also people aged 40 to 79 years and 2) high lifetime CVD risk preval- an established marker of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) ence for people aged 20 to 39 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Subjective and objective changes in depression scores correlated strongly ( r = 0.66, p = 0.01). (bmj.com)
  • with the lack of appropriate instruments ing version and to evaluate the concur- for objective and systematic evalu- rent and discriminant validity of the Instruments ation of depression [1]. (who.int)
  • Depression and other psychological issues associated with convalescence following myocardial infarction. (pharmacology2000.com)
  • Depression can affect people of all ages and is different for every person. (familydoctor.org)
  • People with depression may also have changes in appetite (leading to overeating or not eating enough), changes in sleeping patterns (sleeping too much or not being able to sleep), loss of energy, and difficulty concentrating. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A randomized controlled trial is being implemented to facilitate physical activity in people with major depression. (frontiersin.org)
  • But the siblings and children of people with this form of depression probably develop it at a rate that is 4 or 5 times greater than the average person. (stanford.edu)
  • Another goal of gene research, of course, is to understand how, exactly, biology makes certain people vulnerable to depression. (harvard.edu)
  • This kind of information will help us figure out how the interaction of biology and environment leads to depression in some people but not others. (harvard.edu)
  • Depression affects more than 300 million people worldwide -- 20% of all women, 10% of all men, and 5% or more of all adolescents. (webmd.com)
  • Depression symptoms affect productivity and work time, and many people with depression may have other health problems (1,12). (cdc.gov)
  • Future studies should focus on recruiting persons with mild to moderate levels of depression, and on increasing participant use of the Internet site. (jmir.org)
  • Our study shows greater CVD risk for both clinical and subclinical depres- depression, 53.2% for mild depression, and 66.5% for major de- sion, including higher lifetime CVD risk among adults aged 20 to 39 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Consistent with similar work (15), we hypothesized that mild and cing CVD risk are therefore paramount for public health, and the moderate depression are associated with higher 10-year and life- prevalence and comorbidity of these conditions underscore the im- time CVD risk relative to no depression. (cdc.gov)
  • Strong links have been made between mental health problems with a biological base, such as depression, and changes in social behaviour, interpersonal support, personal coping and adverse social conditions such as unemployment, limited education, discrimination on the basis of sex, human rights violations and poverty. (who.int)
  • Another advantage is the ability to detect individual predisposition to another depression episode after the patient achieves remission. (wepapers.com)
  • Despite decades of basic science, clinical neuroscience, and psychiatric research, the pathophysiology of major depression is not well understood ( 2 ). (psychiatryonline.org)