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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Clinical depression"”.
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Exploring the phenomenology of clinical and non-clinical depression: a Q-methodological study
The lived experience of depression is taken as a starting point for this research which aims to document and explore the variety of experiences of depression among a diverse sample of participants who have been diagnosed with and/or self-report as having had an experience or experiences of …
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Cognitive Reactivity in Clinical Depression: An Assessment of Explicit and Implicit Dimensions, and their Association with Coping Behaviors
Scar theories of depression purport that each depressive episode produces a change in underlying causal factors that increase the risk of having future episodes. The dual process model of cognitive vulnerability of depression proposes that both explicit and implicit cognitive vulnerabilities play a …
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Loneliness, Interpersonal Sensitivity and the Mechanisms through which the Dimensions of Trait Emotional Intelligence May Protect Against Clinical Depression
<p>Reducing the prevalence of loneliness and depression are important public health objectives. This dissertation aims to contribute to these objectives by improving our understanding of the relationship between loneliness and depression. Specifically, we assessed three additional constructs known …
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Clinical Depression, Antidepressant Use, and Metabolic Syndrome-related Comorbidities among Canadian Older Adults: A Cross-sectional Analysis of Baseline Data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging
Background: Clinical depression is associated with a number of biological alterations and behaviours that can increase the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS). Antidepressant medications (AD) are frequently used to treat depressed patients, but it often has side effects such as metabolic …
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Parenting Influences on Depression: A Moderated Mediated Model
… through which parenting factors may influence clinical depression among youth. This study investigated whether parenting influences the onset of clinical depression through the mediating mechanism of negative attributional style, particularly under conditions of high stress, in a community …
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Religious Affiliation and Gender: Differences in the Association Between Religiousness and Psychological Distress
… The dependent variables were symptoms of depression and anxiety. Supplemental analysis examined clinically significant depression and anxiety. Results of bivariate correlational analyses revealed significant relationships among gender, education, physical health, social support, personal …
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Examining the Association between Depressive Symptoms and Performance on Executive Function Measures in Children
… of cognitive deficits have been linked to depression. In particular, data exists to suggest that persons with depression are subject to poorer executive function compared to normal controls. Establishing the connection between depression and impaired executive function is particularly …
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Investigation of somatomotor-sympathetic brain circuit abnormalities in two rat models featuring inborn differences in emotional behavior
… emotional and cognitive disturbances in depression have been described, far fewer studies have explored neurobiological mechanisms underlying its associated motor or physiological impairments. Emotionally motivated behaviors, including responses to stress, are characterized by concomitant …
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The stereoselective synthesis of iodinated analogues of reboxetine: new imaging agents for the noradrenaline transporter
… implicated in neurological disorders such as clinical depression and Alzheimer’s disease. In vivo imaging of the noradrenaline transporter using single photon emission computed tomography has been hampered by the lack of a suitable imaging agent. The information from imaging studies could lead …
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Identification And Functional Analyses Of Novel Protein Interactions And Post-Translational Modifications For The Transcription Factor Deformed Epidermal Autoregulatory Factor-1.
… TTCG motifs and has roles in fetal development, clinical depression and cancer. In order to further our understanding of the DEAF-1 protein, this study characterizes previously unidentified DEAF-1 interacting proteins and post-translational modifications of DEAF-1. A region encompassing the DNA …
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Examining interpersonal and cognitive factors associated with adolescent depressive symptomatology: a comparison of clinically depressed, subsyndromal, and normal control youth
Depression, one of the most common mental disorders in adolescence, appears to be becoming an increasingly prevalent disorder in our society. In fact, it is speculated that early-onset depression has an even poorer and more protracted prognosis than depressive disorders that emerge during adulthood …
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The role of executive functioning in risk for depression: A multi-method longitudinal investigation
… executive function (EF) are a common finding in clinical depression. Previously considered to be the result of depression, impaired EF is increasingly recognized as a risk factor that has implications for the onset and course of depression. While the developmental literature indicates that EF …
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Impact of Attitudes on the Relationship between Psychological Symptoms and Help Seeking Behavior in a Black and Non-Black International Sample
… associated with poor mental health such as clinical depression and anxiety are associated with negative evaluations of help seeking behaviors such as contacting mental health professionals for care. The current study sought to examine the impact of attitudes toward seeking mental health care …
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Examining Autobiographical Memory Specificity, Expressed Emotional Arousal and Client Experiencing in Emotion - Focused and Client - Centered Treatments of Depression: A Process - Outcome Analysis
Research has consistently demonstrated that clinical depression is associated with a propensity toward generic, nonspecific autobiographical memory (ABM) recall (for a review see Williams, Barnhofer, Crane, Hermans, Raes, Watkins, et al., 2007). A recent study demonstrated that although increasing …
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The Association of Age at Immigration with Endorsing Feeling Depressed Among Immigrant Adults in the US
… explained by underreporting or underdiagnosis of depression symptoms. Acculturation, the process of assimilating to a cultural environment, may impact depression symptom recognition and reporting through various mechanisms, including an underexplored but important factor, age at immigration. Those …
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Retrieval induced forgetting in depression and schizophrenia: role of mood and the cholinergic system
… underlie these automatic effects of retrieval. Depression and schizophrenia are known to be associated with inhibitory deficits and there is evidence demonstrating a reduced RIF among these disorders. Very few studies have however investigated RIF in these disorders and the mixed findings …
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An In Vitro Characterization of the Raphe Nucleus and the Effects of SSRIs on Synaptic Neurotransmission
… are traditionally used in the treatment of depression. While these drugs rapidly inhibit the reuptake of neurotransmitters in the synaptic terminal by blocking the serotonin and norepinephrine transporters, clinical efficacy can take several weeks. This phenomenon implies that …
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Is there a relationship between pre-natal exercise and postpartum depression
Postpartum depression is a phenomenon that has baffled physicians and others involved with the care of childbearing women throughout history. Various theories and explanations of the causes of postpartum depression and suggested treatment have been found in the literature. Since exercise has been …
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Measuring perceptions of health education mediums: A validation study
Clinical depression, although often unrecognized and underdiagnosed, is a grave public health concern because it is has the power to devastate millions of lives, yet remains cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in shame. Despite advances in the prevention and treatment of this disease, many of those who …
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Cardiac Rehabilitation Maintenance and Prevention Exercise Program: Effects on Depression and Body Image
… and the effects of the program on body image and depression. Eligible members (n = 111 males, n = 101 females, Mage = 63.3) of the Brock-Niagara Centre for Health and Well-Being completed anthropometric tests (height, body mass, heart rate, blood pressure) and self-reported measures of body …
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