Depressive Disorder, Major - Complications
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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Mood disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease. Diagnosis, screening and treatment of depression]

11 Sep 2009 Depression is a common co-morbid condition in patients suffering from a variety of chronic medical conditions. In spite of this, mental health of patients with chronic kidney disease is understudied. Accurate estimation of the prevalence of ... Read more...

[When eating becomes a disease - Binge-eating-disorder as comorbid eating disorder in obesity - Case 07/2009]

8 Sep 2009 HISTORY AND ADMISSION FINDINGS: A 30-year-old obese female patient with binge eating behaviour, depressive symptoms and poorly regulated diabetes mellitus was admitted to the department of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy INVESTIGATIONS: The ... Read more...

Cardiac rhythm disturbance in a depressed patient after implantation with a vagus nerve stimulator.

30 Aug 2009 A 52-year-old woman with a long-standing history of treatment-resistant depression failed multiple courses of electroconvulsive therapy and various trials of antidepressant medications. As a result, the patient was deemed a good candidate for vagus ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Depressive Disorder, Major - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Mood disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease. Diagnosis, screening and treatment of depression] 11 Sep 2009
• [When eating becomes a disease - Binge-eating-disorder as comorbid eating disorder in obesity - Case 07/2009] 8 Sep 2009
• Cardiac rhythm disturbance in a depressed patient after implantation with a vagus nerve stimulator. 30 Aug 2009
• Electroconvulsive therapy in the setting of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 30 Aug 2009
• Effective use of electroconvulsive therapy after craniofacial reconstructive surgery. 30 Aug 2009
• Working-memory fMRI reveals cingulate hyperactivation in euthymic major depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Sinusoidal smooth pursuit eye tracking at different stimulus frequencies: position error and velocity error before catch-up saccades in schizophrenia and in major depressive disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Sexual side-effects of contemporary antidepressants: review. 30 Aug 2009
• Implicit and explicit procedural learning in patients recently remitted from severe major depression. 28 Aug 2009
• Mirtazapine versus venlafaxine for the treatment of somatic symptoms associated with major depressive disorder: a randomized, open-labeled trial. 17 Aug 2009
• Adult ADHD and comorbid depressive disorders: diagnostic challenges and treatment options. 29 Jun 2009
• New onset somnambulism associated with different dosage of mirtazapine: a case report. 29 Jun 2009
• Steroid responsive psychotic depression. 29 Jun 2009
• Strategies to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of antidepressants: targeting residual symptoms. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol dependence-related increase of glial cell density in the anterior cingulate cortex of suicide completers. 29 Jun 2009
• Circadian misalignment in major depressive disorder. 10 Jun 2009
• Association of major depression with subtypes of nicotine dependence found among adult daily smokers: a latent class analysis. 5 Jun 2009
• Validation of depression screening scales in patients with CKD. Jun 2009
• Prevalence of major depressive episode in CKD. Jun 2009
• Antipsychotic-induced paroxysmal perceptual alteration in a patient with major depressive disorder. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Depressive Disorder, Major'

Definition: Marked depression appearing in the involution period and characterized by hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and agitation.

Descriptor UI: D003865

Alternative terms: Depressive Disorder, Major; Depressive Disorders, Major; Disorder, Major Depressive; Disorders, Major Depressive; Major Depressive Disorders; Major Depressive Disorder; Paraphrenia, Involutional; Involutional Paraphrenia; Paraphrenias, Involutional; Depression, Involutional; Involutional Depression; Melancholia, Involutional; Involutional Melancholia; Psychosis, Involutional; Involutional Psychoses; Involutional Psychosis; Psychoses, Involutional;

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: F03.600.300.375;

Online Note: use DEPRESSION, INVOLUTIONAL to search PSYCHOSES, INVOLUTIONAL & MELANCHOLIA, INVOLUTIONAL 1966-80

History Note: 81; was PSYCHOSES, INVOLUTIONAL 1963-80; MELANCHOLIA, INVOLUTIONAL was see under PSYCHOSES, INVOLUTIONAL 1963-78