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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"depressive disorders"”.
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Consequences of Marijuana Use for Depressive Disorders
… causes, and consequences of psychiatric disorders and comorbodity, analyzing data from a national sample of 8098 participants covering an age range from 15 to 54 years old. Results show that prior depression is the main predictor of current depression while marijuana use has a weak effect …
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Reinforcement learning algorithms to model learning and decision-making in individuals with depressive disorders
… suffering. Unclear conceptualisations of mental disorders combined with little knowledge about their aetiology are roadblocks to developing better treatments. This dissertation reviews attempts to use reinforcement learning models to improve the way we conceptualise some of the processes …
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Peer support trumps drug cocktails: cultural views of treatment options for persons with bipolar and depressive disorders
… contributed to helping patients manage their disorders. For this project, these themes were explored in the academic literature, through participation in the peer-support group, in semi structured interviews, and quantitatively through survey data. I suggest that studies of this type may …
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Exploration of Patient Variables and Characteristics Best Suited for Medical Marijuana Treatment for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
… with posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depressive disorders are currently being prescribed medical marijuana as a treatment in many states across the United States. However, marijuana is still considered a schedule one narcotic by the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal …
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
Many contemporary models of medical ethics champion patient autonomy to counterbalance historically paternalistic decision-making processes. These models tend to suggest an autonomous agent free from cognitive bias and systematic distortion (e.g., Kantian or Cartesian rational agents). Evidence is …
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Efectividad de la terapia ocupacional en pacientes con parálisis facial que presentan trastornos depresivos de ambos sexos entre las edades de 15 a 80 años, atendidos en el centro de rehabilitación integral de oriente de la ciudad de San Miguel; en el periodo comprendido de septiembre a noviembre de 2007
… leads to the susceptibility of mild to moderate depressive disorders in individuals who present it . The main objective of this study was to verify the effectiveness of occupational therapy in patients with facial paralysis who suffer from depressive disorders at the Comprehensive Rehabilitation …
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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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Hypertension and common mental disorders in a nationally-representative sample of South African adults
… and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition (DSM-IV) defined a) anxiety disorders b) depressive disorders and c) comorbid anxiety-depression, both lifetime and 12-month, adjusting for potential confounding variables.
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Using Culturomics to Characterize the Gastrointestinal Microbiota of Donors for Patients with Bipolar Disorder Experiencing Depression
Depressive disorders such as bipolar disorder (BD) affect more than 310 million people worldwide, reduce quality of life, co-occur with other physical disorders, and increase risks of premature death. This high prevalence reflects the challenges in the tolerability and efficacy of current …
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Kapitalizmo poveikis sveikatai /
… in a time marked by an epidemic of psychological disorders. Typically, the causes of psychological disorders are explained through psychiatry and psychology. However, social explanations for psychological disorders are also important. This work utilizes Marxist and critical theory authors and …
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Emotional disorders within neurodevelopmental disorders : a comparison of Icelandic youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and/or autism spectrum disorder
… to the late recognition of co-diagnosis of these disorders. This study explored the presence of anxiety and depressive disorders among youth with ADHD and/or ASD, while also examining gender differences and the association of anxiety disorders with peer problems. The sample comprised of 3836 …
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Reintegration into Civilian Life among Returning Veterans: The Roles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Stressor Exposure
… statistically controlling for age, gender, and depressive disorders. Second, cumulative exposure to pre-deployment physical and/or sexual trauma and combat trauma did not predict any of the functional outcomes among veterans with PTSD (n = 322), after statistically controlling for age, gender, …
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Elucidating psychological and neural mechanisms associated with risk for anxiety and depression
Anxiety and depressive disorders are associated with significant social and occupational impairments and lead to considerable emotional, economic, and societal burden. Trait negative affect (NA) is a crucial factor associated with increased likelihood of developing anxiety and depression, as well …
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Associations Between and Changes in Hippocampal Volume and the Cortisol Response Over Time: The Role of Childhood Maltreatment and Depression
… long been associated with the pathology of major depressive disorder, especially within the context of a history of childhood maltreatment. However, investigations that examine the association between these two mechanisms are scarce. The aim of the current study was to (1) test the hypothesis that …
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Testing the Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Treating Depression in Patients with Cognitive Impairment
… seen as a pre-clinical stage to dementia, and depressive disorders are highly prevalent among both MCI and dementia. There is a large body of research that has linked depressive disorders as a prodromal symptom of MCI and the later development of dementia. While some researchers debate whether …
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Omega-3 fatty acids and depression: epidemiological and experimental evidence
… of many inflammatory-related diseases, including depressive disorders. Among the biological properties of omega-3 PUFA, their anti-inflammatory effects and their role on the structural changing of the brain should be taken into account to better understand the possible pathway through which they …
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Potential Precursors of Comorbidity: Examining how Emotions, Parental Psychopathology, and Family Functioning Relate to Depressive Symptoms in Young Anxious Children
… factors which may increase vulnerability to depressive disorders, the current study examined several clinical correlates (i.e., feelings ratings, parental psychopathology symptoms, and family functioning) of comorbid depressive symptoms in young anxious children. Method: Sixty-eight children, …
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Detección de trastornos ansiosos y trastornos depresivos en los municipios de lolotiquillo, Moncagua, sociedad en el periodo mayo – julio 2002
… research deals with the detection of anxious disorders and depressive disorders in these populations, in the period from May to July 2002. The source of information was an instrument elaborated from a questionnaire of the World Health Organization and other questions elaborated by the group …
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Depression and HIV/AIDS: adapting and piloting group interpersonal therapy for treatment of depressive symptoms for people living with HIV/AIDS in Northwest Ethiopia
… of high adherence can exacerbate or trigger depressive disorders. Prevalence of major depression is substantially higher in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) than those in the general population. More than 50% of PLWHA are likely to meet one or more criteria for depression in their …
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Matching system for Animal-assisted therapy based on the Levenshtein and Gale-Shapley algorithms
… that assigns pets, cats, or dogs to persons with depressive disorders such as low self-esteem. We found that even though different institutions have made the assignments of pets to patients, we were not able to found one that uses an IT tool for this task. Because of this situation, we decided to …
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