Depressive Disorder, Major - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy and brief supportive psychotherapy for augmentation of antidepressant nonresponse in chronic depression: the REVAMP Trial.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Previous studies have found that few chronically depressed patients remit with antidepressant medications alone. OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of adjunctive psychotherapy in the treatment of chronically depressed patients with less than ... Read more...

Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

30 Oct 2009 Research on postpartum mood disorders has focused primarily on major depressive disorder, bipolar I disorder, and puerperal psychosis and has largely ignored or neglected bipolar II disorder. Hypomanic symptoms are common after delivery but ... Read more...

Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments.

11 Oct 2009 Screening for emotional distress is becoming increasingly common in cancer care. This systematic review examines the psychometric properties of the existing tools used to screen patients for emotional distress, with the goal of encouraging screening ... Read more...

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

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy and brief supportive psychotherapy for augmentation of antidepressant nonresponse in chronic depression: the REVAMP Trial. 30 Oct 2009
• Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment. 30 Oct 2009
• Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments. 11 Oct 2009
• Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• Defense mechanisms and Major Depressive Disorder in African American women. 29 Sep 2009
• Influence of personality on objective and subjective social support among patients with major depressive disorder: a prospective study. 29 Sep 2009
• Genome-wide linkage and follow-up association study of postpartum mood symptoms. 13 Sep 2009
• [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
• [Diagnosis and therapy of depression in family practice] 4 Sep 2009
• Working-memory fMRI reveals cingulate hyperactivation in euthymic major depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall. 30 Aug 2009
• Magnetic resonance imaging and prediction of outcome in patients with major depressive disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Treating partial responders to antidepressant treatment. 30 Aug 2009
• Comorbidity of depressive and anxiety disorders for older Americans in the national comorbidity survey-replication. 30 Aug 2009
• Depression screening in adolescents. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• A genomewide association study points to multiple loci that predict antidepressant drug treatment outcome in depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Detecting depressive and anxiety disorders in distressed patients in primary care; comparative diagnostic accuracy of the Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). 21 Aug 2009
• A model of the economic impact of a bipolar disorder screening program in primary care. 9 Aug 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