Depression - Complications
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ten-year change in plasma amyloid beta levels and late-life cognitive decline.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Plasma levels of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) are potential biomarkers of early cognitive impairment and decline and of Alzheimer disease risk. OBJECTIVE: To relate midlife plasma Abeta measures and 10-year change in plasma Abeta ... Read more...

Promising strategies for the prevention of dementia.

29 Sep 2009 The incidence and prevalence of dementia are expected to increase several-fold in the coming decades. Given that the current pharmaceutical treatment of dementia can only modestly improve symptoms, risk factor modification remains the cornerstone ... Read more...

Association of resident fatigue and distress with perceived medical errors.

21 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Fatigue and distress have been separately shown to be associated with medical errors. The contribution of each factor when assessed simultaneously is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of fatigue and distress with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Depression - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Depression in adults with a chronic physical health problem: treatment and management. 30 Oct 2009
• Ten-year change in plasma amyloid beta levels and late-life cognitive decline. 29 Sep 2009
• Promising strategies for the prevention of dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of resident fatigue and distress with perceived medical errors. 21 Sep 2009
• [Mood disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease. Diagnosis, screening and treatment of depression] 11 Sep 2009
• [Diagnosis and therapy of depression in family practice] 4 Sep 2009
• Longitudinal study of depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life during pregnancy and after delivery: the Health Status in Pregnancy (HIP) study. 30 Aug 2009
• Factors associated with quality of life in outpatients with head and neck cancer 6 months after diagnosis. 30 Aug 2009
• Depression: body and brain. 30 Aug 2009
• A meta-analytic investigation of neurocognitive deficits in bipolar illness: profile and effects of clinical state. 30 Aug 2009
• Depression impairs executive functioning in Parkinson disease patients with low educational level. 30 Aug 2009
• Adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer and cognitive impairment. 30 Aug 2009
• To screen or not to screen? Depression in patients with cardiovascular disease. 30 Aug 2009
• Routine screening for depression in patients with coronary heart disease never mind. 30 Aug 2009
• The relative contributions of hostility and depressive symptoms to the income gradient in hospital-based incidence of ischaemic heart disease: 12-Year follow-up findings from the GLOBE study. 23 Aug 2009
• Physical activity, diet, and risk of Alzheimer disease. 10 Aug 2009
• Internet treatment for social phobia reduces comorbidity. 30 Jul 2009
• Subjective sleep, depression and anxiety: inter-relationships in a non-clinical sample. 30 Jul 2009
• Vitamin D and depressive symptoms in women during the winter: a pilot study. 30 Jul 2009
• Combination therapy can help reduce pain and depression. When these conditions coexist, antidepressants and pain self-management can improve symptoms. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Depression'

Definition: Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.

Descriptor UI: D003863

Alternative terms: Depression; Depressions; Depressive Symptoms; Depressive Symptom; Symptom, Depressive; Symptoms, Depressive; Emotional Depression; Depression, Emotional; Depressions, Emotional; Emotional Depressions;

Related Mesh Headings: Antidepressive Agents;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.145.126.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; /drug ther: consider also ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; do not confuse this or X ref (depression of "moderate intensity") with DEPRESSIVE DISORDER ("prominent & relatively persistent" depression): psychiatrists differentiate on basis of degree