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A significant proportion of depressed patients eventually present with treatment-resistant/refractory major depression (TRD), a debilitating condition that imposes significant health, social, and economic burdens. Recently, a growing level of consensus has been reached on the general meaning of TRD,...
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PMID: 18293145
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Between the years 1935 and 1965, tens of thousands of lobotomies were performed on Americans in order to treat mental illness. This article reconstructs the relations between the theory and practice of psychosurgery and a dynamic approach to mental illness. The article claims that psychosurgical dis...
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PMID: 18622073
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Most historians of psychiatry regard insulin coma therapy (ICT) either as an embarrassing stumble on the path to modern biological psychiatry or as one member of a long line of somatic therapies used to treat mental illness in the mid-twentieth century. This article explores the ICT era, roughly 193...
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PMID: 17105748
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This brief review provides an overview of neurotherapeutic interventions for major depression that are available currently or are being studied in clinical trials. The growing utility of surgical and device-related treatments for psychiatric conditions may represent a sea change in the field of psyc...
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PMID: 17362801
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We assume that a conditional grant reduces the net price of labour and thereby increases the (relative) demand, whereas an unconditional grant adds to the other revenues of the county and do not affect the relative allocation of labour. Data from a panel of 18 counties for the period 1992-2001 is an...
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PMID: 16472885
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The concept of a subtype of depression with a biological rather than a psychological set of causes has been more prominent in the psychiatric literature than in the psychological literature on depression. There has been dispute as to whether research on melancholia supports the distinction of a sepa...
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PMID: 15596079
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General health services are widely utilized by individuals with serious mental illness who are in outpatient psychiatric care. Dental services remain underutilized, however, and there is a high rate of perceived barriers to receiving medical care in this population....
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PMID: 12665719
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Numerous somatic interventions have been studied as potential treatments of depressive disorders in children and adolescents. These include antidepressant medications, light therapy, electro-convulsive therapy, and alternative therapies. The available evidence suggests that several somatic intervent...
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PMID: 12222083
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The currently available data from randomized, controlled trials and a considerable amount of open clinical data suggest that adolescent-onset bipolar disorder probably responds to the same agents as adult-onset bipolar disorder. Research examining psychopharmacologic treatment approaches in the earl...
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PMID: 12222085
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We present the Duke Somatic Treatment Algorithm for Geriatric Depression (STAGED) approach, developed by clinicians in the Duke Mood Disorders Program. The algorithm consists of five stages based on treatment history. In developing the approach, we enrolled 228 depressed elderly patients in a Nation...
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PMID: 12397841
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The data support modification of existing cognitive behavioural treatments for CFS to investigate whether addressing partners' attributions for patients' symptoms improves recovery in the patient. Furthermore, a tendency to make somatic attributions for symptoms may be a vulnerability factor for the...
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PMID: 11200964
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The differences between somatic psychiatrists and mental hygienists, already apparent earlier, became much more pronounced during the Depression years, partly as a consequence of their different perspectives on this social crisis. Somatic psychiatrists, emboldened by the apparent success of new medi...
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PMID: 11596071
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I assess the everyday use of somatic therapies and the science that justified these practices. My assessment is based upon patient records from state hospitals and the contemporaneous scientific literature. I analyze the following somatic interventions: hydrotherapy, sterilization, malaria fever the...
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PMID: 11256729
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Clinical depression is a common disorder with serious implications that is often misdiagnosed or underestimated. More than 50% of suicides are associated with a major depressive disorder, and depression can adversely impact a variety of other medical conditions. Although > or = 70% of depressions ca...
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PMID: 10682177
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