Depressive Disorder, Major - Drug therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

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...

Omega-3 augmentation of sertraline in treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease: a randomized controlled trial.

19 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Studies of depressed psychiatric patients have shown that antidepressant efficacy can be increased by augmentation with omega-3 fatty acids. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether omega-3 improves the response to sertraline in patients with major ... Read more...

Pharmacotherapy for depressed pregnant women: overcoming obstacles to gathering essential data.

29 Sep 2009 Approximately 3% of pregnant women take antidepressant medications. Information on the impact of antidepressants on short- and long-term maternal and offspring outcomes is highly desirable but neglected. The position that the dearth of treatment ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Depressive Disorder, Major - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment. 30 Oct 2009
• Making the best use of available evidence: the case of new generation antidepressants: a response to: are all antidepressants equal? 30 Oct 2009
• Are all antidepressants equal? 30 Oct 2009
• Omega-3 augmentation of sertraline in treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease: a randomized controlled trial. 19 Oct 2009
• Antidepressant use and preterm birth. 29 Sep 2009
• Pharmacotherapy for depressed pregnant women: overcoming obstacles to gathering essential data. 29 Sep 2009
• [Mood disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease. Diagnosis, screening and treatment of depression] 11 Sep 2009
• Emerging drugs for major depressive disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Neuropeptide and sigma receptors as novel therapeutic targets for the pharmacotherapy of depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Bupropion-induced neck and shoulder pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Imbalance between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, and between Th1 and Th2 cytokines in depressed patients: the effect of electroacupuncture or fluoxetine treatment. 30 Aug 2009
• Magnesium in major depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Melancholia as a useful subtype of major depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Genetic studies of drug response and side effects in the STAR*D study, part 2. 30 Aug 2009
• No decision is without risk. 30 Aug 2009
• Adding psychotherapy to pharmacotherapy in the treatment of depressive disorders in adults: a meta-analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Treating partial responders to antidepressant treatment. 30 Aug 2009
• Sexual side-effects of contemporary antidepressants: review. 30 Aug 2009
• Fluoxetine and olanzapine combination therapy in treatment-resistant major depression: review of efficacy and safety data. 30 Aug 2009
• The Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS): outcomes over 1 year of naturalistic follow-up. 30 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