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We observed acceleration of the extinction start and development of complete extinction of the memory trace about pain impact as compared with single injections of D-cycloserine and SKF 38393....
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PMID: 21961294
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An increased risk for depression has been found in multiple sclerosis (MS). The purpose of the present study has been to give suggestions to guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of depression in MS in Denmark based on the international literature and recommendations. The method was a review of the...
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PMID: 21219844
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We present an overview of the current knowledge concerning BDNF actions and associated intracellular signaling in hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens (NAc) and amygdala as their relation to depression....
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PMID: 21131999
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This study evaluated clinical characteristics and suicidality of patients with anxious depression in a large cohort of samples. Data were collected from 1003 patients who were depressed. A total of 461 patients were diagnosed with anxious depression and 542 were diagnosed with nonanxious depression....
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PMID: 21206246
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Numerous studies have examined which individual defense mechanisms are related with mental health, and which are linked with psychopathology. However, the idea that a flexible use of defensive mechanisms is related to psychological wellbeing remained a clinical assumption, which this study sought to...
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PMID: 21206245
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We examined characteristics associated with readiness to use compensatory strategies, the extent to which level of readiness changed from participation in an intervention (Advancing Better Living for Elders (ABLE)) providing compensatory strategies, and factors predictive of change in readiness leve...
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PMID: 20663239
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Achieving remission in late-life depressive disorder is difficult; it is far better to prevent depression. In the last ten years there have been a number of clinical studies of the feasibility of prevention.
A limited literature review was undertaken of studies from 2000 specifically concerning the...
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PMID: 20594389
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The lifetime prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among adolescents and young adults around the world is currently estimated to range from 5% to 70%, with an Indian study reporting no depression among college going adolescents. This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine prevalenc...
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PMID: 21135643
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Although there is evidence that vitamin D deficiency may play a role in depression, studies done on the associations have yielded mixed results. The present study aimed to examine the associations between serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and parathyroid hormone (PTH) and the pre...
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PMID: 20642877
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A few small studies published to date have suggested that major psychosocial problems develop in the partners of cancer patients; however, to the authors' knowledge, no studies to date have addressed their risk for severe depression. In a retrospective cohort study, the risk for hosp...
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PMID: 20878654
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Although prescriptions for psychotropic medications for children are at an all-time high, medication adherence rates for children are often low. In Part 1 of this article set, literature regarding adherence to psychotropic medications for children was reviewed. Important issues related to adherence...
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PMID: 21117522
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Disturbances in some endocrine hormones have been implicated in the pathophysiology of depression. Some of these hormones (and drugs that affect hormone function) have been used as therapeutic agents for the treatment of depression, especially adrenal, thyroid, and gonadal axis hormones. Open-label...
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PMID: 21117521
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Depressive symptoms in adolescent mothers have been associated with a variety of negative outcomes for both the adolescent mother and her child. The purpose of this article is to describe the dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory®-II and to provide a discussion of how depression may appear in...
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PMID: 20873701
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The FDA has approved the marketing of an extended-release formulation of trazodone (Oleptro--Angelini Labopharm) for treatment of major depressive disorder in adults. Immediate-release trazodone has been available for treatment of depression for many years, but is used mostly in low doses for its se...
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PMID: 21068704
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A large proportion of patients admitted to psychological departments and wards suffer from depression. Knowledge is limited about the clinical aspects and treatment of depression at admission and discharge, as well as about the differences between psychiatric hospitals. The purpose of this study was...
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PMID: 21073833
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To estimate the prevalence of major and minor depression, panic disorder, and suicidal ideation during pregnancy while also identifying factors independently associated with antenatal depressive disorders.
In this prospective study, participants were 1,888 women receiving ongoing prenatal care at a...
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PMID: 20966690
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In the summary of product characteristics of infliximab (IFX), psychiatric side effects are reported to be rare, and in literature only limited data exist. This report presents a case of a patient with ulcerative colitis who developed a depression with psychotic symptoms during IFX t...
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PMID: 21122565
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The psychometric characteristics of the Children's Depression Inventory, CDI (Kovacs, 1992) in a sample of 1705 participants (792 boys and 913 girls) and a clinical sample of 102 participants (42 boys and 60 girls) between 10 and 18 years old are presented. Reliability coefficients range, for both s...
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PMID: 20977046
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This study evaluates the long-term efficacy of a brief psychotherapeutic cognitive-behavioral program in group format for female victims of violence by their intimate partner. 53 battered women were randomized into one of two intervention programs: one including among others exposure technique (n =...
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PMID: 20977033
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Repeated daily left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was first proposed as a potential treatment for depression in 1993. Multiple studies from researchers around the world since then have repeatedly demonstrated that TMS has antidepressant effects greater than sham treatment, and t...
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PMID: 20977332
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We examined whether these beliefs in a just world (BJW) were associated with the severity of psychopathology of participants. Our results showed that, compared with a healthy control group, the current persecutory beliefs group had weaker beliefs in a just world related to themselves (BJW-P), but th...
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PMID: 21048470
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The aim of this study was to examine long-term changes in symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and in health-related quality of life in traumatized refugees 23 months after admission to multidisciplinary treatment. The study group comprised 45 persons admitted to the Reha...
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PMID: 21048474
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The biopsychosocial model has been developed from general system theory and describes the interaction of body and mind. Unipolar depression has a complex pathogenesis which on an individual level presents in very diverse ways. The article focuses on biological factors such as heritability, changes i...
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PMID: 21043016
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Based on empirical evidence, psychotherapeutic treatment of depression is recommended if the following methods are applied: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Psychoanalytic/Short-term Psychodynamic Therapy. The empirical evidence for the efficacy of CBT and IPT is...
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PMID: 21043019
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Biological treatment procedures are based on evidence-based guidelines. According to all of them, a correct diagnosis of depression is required before starting therapy. Within recent years many different types of antidepressants have been introduced to the pharmacotherapeutic armamentarium. The "new...
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PMID: 21043020
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One of the four main objectives of the alliances against depression is better diagnosis and therapy of depression by general practitioners. This short communication will discuss reasons of the often reported low detection rate and ways to improve the cooperation between general practitioners and spe...
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PMID: 21043022
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To assess depressive disorders a number of reliable and valid instruments exist. They are suitable for screening, assessment of the severity of depressive disorders and classification according to ICD-10 or DSM-IV criteria. Instruments are available as self-, as well as observer rating scales, check...
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PMID: 21043013
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By now psychoeducation is also recommended for the treatment of depression, due to data showing high acceptance and efficacy regarding a broad range of clinical variables. The impact of family-involvement by groups for relatives is not sufficiently studied yet, but findings concerning other severe m...
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PMID: 21043021
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About 11% of pregnant women suffer from a major depression requiring treatment. If left untreated, there are specific risks such as preterm delivery or low birth weight. The initial difficulty lies in diagnosing the depression itself, since many depressive symptoms are falsely ascribed to the pregna...
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PMID: 21043017
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Herbal preparations for depression are often preferred over pharmaceutical drugs because they are available without prescription and because they are commonly assumed to be safe. St. John's wort (SJW) is one of the best-known and best-selling herbal therapies for depression. Meta-analyses of randomi...
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PMID: 21053786
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Issue: Blockade of 5-HT7 receptors may be a novel therapeutic approach for achieving antidepressant and memory-enhancing actions.
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PMID: 21114946
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We explored the possibility of using baseline features and early symptom change to predict which patients will and which patients will not respond to treatment.
Participants were 2,280 outpatients enrolled in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) study who had complete...
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PMID: 21114950
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We conclude that evidence in favour of psychodynamic psychotherapy exists for unipolar depression, panic anxiety with and without agoraphobia, social phobia, generalised anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. For complex mental conditions, long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy shows greater eff...
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PMID: 21040658
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This report evaluates the potential of the antidepressant drug citalopram to induce homozygotization of genes previously present in a heterozygous condition, by homologous recombination. In order to address this question, a heterozygous diploid strain of the filamentous fungus Asperg...
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PMID: 20851831
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We aimed to construct the picture of developmental epidemiology for psychosocial aspects in families of β-thalassaemia major patients attending a tertiary care hospital in north India.
The accelerated longitudinal design was used. The sample consisted of 100 children with β-thalassaemia and their...
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PMID: 20966522
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We note how we then sought to manage such patients clinically.
The test may have some capacity to identify patients with a rapid metabolizing profile. Any further advantages were not identified by this study, whether reflecting methodological and/or assay limitations....
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PMID: 20863179
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We evaluated a preventive CBT program targeting internalizing symptoms relative to an activity contrast condition post-intervention and at 1-year follow-up.
One thousand one hundred and thirty-nine children from Grades 3-6 from a diverse sample of schools, were screened with the Multidimensional Anx...
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PMID: 20602433
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Little is known about the impact of in utero exposure to antidepressants on children's long-term mental health. This study analyzed the impact of exposure to antidepressants during pregnancy on the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the offspring.
Claims-based data from 38,07...
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PMID: 20613624
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Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are highly co-morbid following a traumatic event. Nevertheless, decisive evidence regarding the direction of the relationship between these clinical entities is missing.
The aim of the present study was to examine the nature of this re...
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PMID: 20059801
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We used a Thai version of the EURO-D scale to measure depression in 1104 Thai rural community-dwelling parents aged 60 years. These were all those providing data on depression who were recruited as part of a study of older adults with at least one living child (biological, stepchild or adopted child...
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PMID: 20056022
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The Depressive History Questionnaire is shown to have a single factor and acceptable internal consistency reliability in a sample of 205 community participants.
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PMID: 21117469
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This study intended to describe general personality functioning in patients with a progressive course of multiple sclerosis. 55 consecutive rehabilitation inpatients with progressive course of multiple sclerosis were assessed with a multimethod test battery: the Expanded Disability Status Scale, the...
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PMID: 21117492
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Our aim was to examine whether the DEPS has the ability to differentiate clearly defined levels of depression in primary care patients.
Primary care patients aged 18-64 years completed a postal questionnaire including the DEPS. All screen-positive subjects and every 10th screen-negative subject were...
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PMID: 20554653
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This article presents an in vivo investigation of maternal negative mood, maternal video-mediated cognitions, and daily stressors in families with young children. Specifically, it was hypothesized that greater levels of maternal depressed, anxious, and hostile mood states immediately prior to a dail...
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PMID: 20954773
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We hypothesized that if submissive behavior in DSR is a valid model of depression, it should be possible to show a genetic predisposition for this trait, since clinical studies support a genetic component for depression.
To test this hypothesis, we applied selective breeding on outbred Sabra mice ba...
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PMID: 20427092
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We briefly consider the psychoemotional factors that might underlie the depression-diabetes relation. The effects (most of them deleterious) of the antidepressive therapy in glucometabolic control are also discussed....
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PMID: 20839171
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Evidence suggests that cytokines (IL-6) and alteration of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis play a crucial role in the etiology of depression. Patients with cancer show elevated prevalence rates for depression. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigat...
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PMID: 20702499
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Our data suggest that special support should be provided to adolescents with obese sibling(s) and to adolescents with mothers suffering from depression and exhibiting an avoidant attachment style, so as to meet the specific needs of all participating families and to prevent the discouraging experien...
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PMID: 20809471
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This pilot study aimed to explore the clinical outcomes and therapeutic relationship for clients of an adult mental health service using Beating the Blues, a computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) package. Sixteen participants completed the programme and reported a significant reduction in...
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PMID: 20485996
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