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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Affective disorders."”.
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HPA Axis Dysfunction In Treatment Resistant Affective Disorders
Background: TRD (Treatment Resistant Depression) patients have been shown to have hypercortisolemia and a hyperactive HP A (hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal) axis. The Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) is a naturalistic measure of the HP A axis activity. Although found to be elevated in depression, it …
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Dissecting emotion : towards a functional neuroimaging probe for affective disorders
The goal of this research was to develop a functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm for use in investigating major depressive disorder. Functional neuroimaging studies of depression have reported altered resting brain metabolism and altered responses to simple emotion paradigms in the …
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The Role of the Serotonergic Neurotransmitter System in the Development and Treatment of Affective Disorders
… in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. Serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are frontline therapy for both of these conditions, and have well-described behavioral effects in animal models of emotional behavior. Yet, administration of SSRIs during postnatal …
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Investigating Resource Utilization in Elective Spine Patients with Affective Disorders: A Retrospective Analysis of a Cohort of 1199 Elective Spine Patients
BACKGROUND: In elective spine surgery patients, affective disorders (ADs) are associated with increased preoperative opioid use to control pain, longer length of hospital stays, and increased postoperative readmission rates. When assessing healthcare resource utilization, how ADs influence …
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RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY CORRELATES OF ATTENTIONAL BIAS IN AN EMOTIONAL FREE VIEWING PARADIGM: AN EYE-TRACKING INVESTIGATION
… individuals either diagnosed, or at risk for, affective disorders display altered patterns of attentional engagement (hypervigilance or maintenance) with external stimuli; referred to as attentional biases. To date, the extent to which underlying neural mechanisms drive attentional biases, both …
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Diagnostic conversion following admission for a first-episode substance induced psychosis: A four-year retrospective cohort study
… SIPD to primary, non-substance-related mental disorders. Setting: Adult inpatients with a diagnosis of first-episode SIPD discharged between 2012 to 2014 from Valkenberg psychiatric hospital, Cape Town. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of first-episode patients discharged from …
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Brain Electrical Activity in Infants of Depressed and Anxious Mothers
… EEG asymmetry in the offspring of parents with affective disorders and such research has reported linkages between frontal EEG asymmetry and depression, suggesting that measures of EEG asymmetry may be important neurological markers of risk for affective disorders. Despite the greater prevalence …
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The effects of early developmental stress and exercise intervention on neurodegeneration in a rat model of Parkinson's disease
… effects, e.g. the later development of affective disorders, and this has been related to chronic enhanced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity. Animal studies have shown that maternally separated rats exhibit increased anxiety- and depression-like behaviour in adulthood, although …
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Biochemical and pharmacological studies on blood platelets and erythmocytes in affective illness
… and erythrocytes from patients suffering from affective disorders, and the effect a variety of therapies have on these measures. No significant differences were detected in either platelet membrane ATPase or adenyl cyclase specific activity in any of the groups of patients studied, when …
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Validation of clinical screens for suicidality and severe mental disorders for jail inmates.
… Criterion measures were the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) for Axis I disorders and the Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) for suicidal ideation. Results indicate that each screen most effectively assessed one clinical domain: the RDS for psychosis, the MDSIS for …
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Nursing Care for Dependent Patients with Psychiatric Comorbidity // Сестрински грижи при зависими пациенти с психическа коморбидност
… disease to the main one. The combination of two disorders developing simultaneously affects nursing care, creating therapeutic and diagnostic difficulties to differentiate and treat each. This leads to increased use of health services and more frequent hospitalizations associated with increased …
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Differentiation of Central Auditory Processing Disorder and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents
… with ADHD, CAPD, comorbid ADHD/CAPD and Affective Disorders revealed condition-specific clinical profiles, thus providing some support for CAPD as a distinct clinical entity. Second, exploratory cluster analysis was performed to further investigate the relationship between ADHD and CAPD. …
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A systematic review of DTI studies in Bipolar Disorder
… reviews have each been limited by including all affective disorders or by a methodology which ignores tracts and discards potentially meaningful data. This background in the review includes a detailed exposition of the main DTI techniques and shortcomings. The review aims to determine whether …
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Research Proposal to Study Sandplay Therapy as a Modlaity to Enhance Self-Esteem in SED Adolescents: Part I
… related to sexual and/or physical abuse, affective disorders, thought disorders, adjustment reactions, depression, suicidal ideation, and interpersonal conflicts.</p> <p>Executive Director of New Directions, Arnell Etherington. has identified an art therapist who has extensive training and …
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Living with mental illness: A descriptive study of individual adult experiences of living with mental illness in Zomba, Malawi
… and four men) with schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorders were interviewed to elicit descriptions of experiences of their conditions. The participants' mental conditions were considered stable at the time they were attending the community mental health services. As a result of their …
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SHARED AND UNIQUE PATTERNS OF RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY LINKED TO ATTENTIONAL AND INTERPRETATION BIASES
… controls, individuals who are vulnerable for affective disorders prioritize their attentional focus on more negative stimuli and interpret ambiguous emotional information as more negative. A great effort has been dedicated in recent years to identifying the neural mechanisms of cognitive bias, …
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Valutazione del rischio genetico di comportamento suicidario nel disturbo bipolare: analisi di 737 pedigrees
… cause of mortality in patients with major affective disorders(MAD). Suicidal acts are typically more lethal in MAD. A large contribution to the suicide risk derives from the presence of family history of suicidal behavior. Other clinical factors, such as treatment with lithium can reduce …
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Lentiviral-mediated gene delivery to investigate the functional role of neuropsychiatric genes
… to the risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorders. For example, dopamine receptor genes are established candidates for a number of psychiatric disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease, alcohol addiction and mood disorders. On the other hand, a gene of unknown function, AUTS2 (Autism …
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Difficulty in Facial Emotion Recognition in Children with ADHD
… interviews according to Kiddie-schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia-present and lifetime version (K-SADS-PL-K) were conducted for both the parents and the children. Emotion Recognition Test(ERT) was performed for children who had been diagnosed with ADHD (N=10). RESULTS: ADHD …
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