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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"major depression"”.
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10-Jahres Verlauf der Major Depression
… bzw. Episoden, hier vom endogenen Subtypus und Major Depression, werden durch eine Vielzahl sozialer, psychologischer und biologischer Faktoren ausgelöst bzw. beeinflußt, die in vielfltiger Weise zusammenwirken. Verlaufsbeschreibungen beschreiben Geschehen, das mit der Erstmanifestation der …
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Information processing in major depression: The ERP connection
… of information processing anomalies seen in major depressives. Specifically, it examined: (1) Relationship of depression and anxiety to P300 and N200 amplitude using a more complex task than has typically been used in ERP studies of depression; (2) ERPs to further our understanding of …
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Life Stress and Risk for Major Depression: A Latent Profile Analysis
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) affects over 280 million individuals and accounts for more years of ‘healthy’ life lost than any other medical condition. Half of all individuals with an initial onset of MDD will experience recurrences, whereas half will have only one or very few lifetime episodes. …
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Case study to evaluate effectiveness of a treatment approach for major depression
… intervention with an adult diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder. A case study design was used to evaluate treatment for an adult male diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and Opioid Dependence in Early Full Remission. The subject voluntarily participated in individual psychotherapy, …
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The Impact of Treating Major Depression During Pregnancy on the Postpartum Phase
<p>Major depression during pregnancy is a risk factor for postpartum depression (PPD). Medically acceptable treatments for depression during pregnancy and postpartum are limited and many women are turning to complementary and alternative treatments. The current project examined whether treatment of …
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Inflammatory Mechanisms And Vulnerability For Major Depression: From Animal Models To Drug Treatment
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common disorder that represents a leading cause of disability in the world. It is thought to originate from the interaction between susceptibility genes and environmental events, such as stress, to which an individual can be exposed in different moments of life. …
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Motivation to expend physical and cognitive effort as predictors of functioning in major depression
Background: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is associated with severe functional disability; however, the mechanisms of impaired functioning are understudied. Cognitive deficits is one known mechanism of functional impairment in MDD. However, treatments that remediate cognitive functioning do not …
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Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen Major Depression und Autoimmunthyreoidits oder anderen Erkrankungen der Schilddrüse?
… wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen Patienten mit Major Depression nach DSM-IV und Schilddrüsenerkrankungen, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung einer Autoimmunthyreoiditis, untersucht.In einem Zeitraum von 14 Monaten wurden prospektiv 100 Patienten in die Studie eingeschlossen, von denen 50 …
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Clients' Experience of Effective Psychoanalytic-Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Major Depression: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
… evidence that psychodynamic therapy for depression is effective, there is no research documenting the qualities of experience in effective psychodynamic therapy for depression. To address this lack, this study aimed to investigate clients' experiences of both the helpful processes and the …
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Race-ethnic discrimination, Major Depression, and Alcohol Use Disorder among US-born and immigrant minorities
… populations. Specifically, two DMS-IV disorders, Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) were examined as outcomes. The dissertation sample (n = 13,914) was drawn from Wave II of the data and included Black, Hispanic, and Asian respondents. The first question addresses the …
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Predicting trajectories of symptom change during and following treatment in adolescents with Unipolar Major Depression.
… in randomised controlled trials for unipolar major depression are non-standardised and arbitrary. Proportion of non-responders has been estimated as ranging from 20%-40% across such trials. I aimed to classify depressed adolescents recruited to the UK IMPACT trial into different trajectories …
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A meta-analysis of Prozac and three psychotherapies in the treatment of unipolar major depression
… the use of Prozac in the treatment of unipolar major depression. Prozac was chosen, specifically, due to its reputation as a new, very effective anti-depressant. This study used a meta-analysis to compare three psychotherapies with medication: 1) cognitive therapy, 2) behavioral therapy, 3) …
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Role of psychometric tools in the diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of Major Depression and Alzheimer s disease
… tools. Affective disorders and particularly major depressive disorders (MDD) have been recently identified as new risk factors for the development of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer s disease (AD). According to this clinical continuum between depression, MCI and AD new strategies of …
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Major Depression, somatische Komorbidität und psychosoziales Wohlbefinden im mittleren und höheren Lebensalter : Ergebnisse der Interdisziplinären Längsschnittstudie des Erwachsenenalters
… stehen affektive Störungen und insbesondere die Major Depression (MD), deren Symptomatologie im Hinblick auf Altersgruppenunterschieden ausgewertet wurde. Ein Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt auf der Untersuchung der MD im Zusammenhang mit somatischer Komorbidität und psychosozialem Wohlbefinden in …
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Gender Effects on Recall, Clinical Judgement and Treatment Recommendations for a Combination of Major Depression and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms
<p>This study investigated the effect of client gender on several aspects of clinical decision-making processes and clinical judgement when a client presented with a combination of depressive and alcohol-dependent symptoms. Forty-four male and 44 female clinicians, who came from various mental …
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Executive function deficit and disability in unipolar major depression: The transient, the stable, and the importance of emotional control
… function impairments associated with unipolar depression contribute heavily to the individual and societal costs of this disorder. Unfortunately, past research on executive function deficits in unipolar depression has not succeeded in providing much detail about the nature of these deficits. …
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The effect of deployment on the rate of major depression and substance abuse in active duty military from 2001-2006
… evaluates the effects of deployment history on major depression and substance abuse in the active duty population from 2001 to 2006. The research specifically evaluates cumulative effects of deployment (location, total days, frequency of separate tours) on major depression and substance abuse …
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The Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, Self-Report (QIDS-SR16): A Psychometric Evaluation in Patients with Asthma and Major Depression
… research evidence of high comorbidity between depression and asthma, few studies have addressed the performance of assessment tools which may assist physicians in assessing depression among asthma patients. The present study is the first to evaluate the psychometric properties of the …
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