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Depressive Disorder, Major - Epidemiology
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Definition of 'Depressive Disorder, Major'Marked depression appearing in the involution period and characterized by hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and agitation. Common names: 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 |
Saturday, November 21, 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...
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...
Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder.
29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Important differences exist between bipolar disorder with and without comorbid anxiety, but little is known about the long-term prognostic significance of coexisting anxiety in bipolar disorder. The authors sought to identify the anxiety ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Depressive Disorder, Major - Epidemiology'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment. 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
- Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
- Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder. 13 Sep 2009
- Emerging drugs for major depressive disorder. 30 Aug 2009
- Health care utilization in patients with eating disorders. 30 Aug 2009
- Comorbidity of depressive and anxiety disorders for older Americans in the national comorbidity survey-replication. 30 Aug 2009
- Health status of people undergoing foreclosure in the Philadelphia region. 18 Aug 2009
- A model of the economic impact of a bipolar disorder screening program in primary care. 9 Aug 2009
- Downward social mobility and major depressive episodes among Latino and Asian-American immigrants to the United States. 9 Aug 2009
- STAR*D: revising conventional wisdom. 30 Jul 2009
- Self-reported peer victimization and child mental health: results of a cross-sectional survey among French primary school children. 30 Jul 2009
- Potential utility of aripiprazole monotherapy for the treatment of major depressive disorder comorbid with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
30 Jul 2009 - The dorsal raphe nucleus shows phospho-tau neurofibrillary changes before the transentorhinal region in Alzheimer's disease. A precocious onset? 30 Jul 2009
- Restless legs syndrome in a community sample of Korean adults: prevalence, impact on quality of life, and association with DSM-IV psychiatric disorders. 30 Jul 2009
- Major depressive disorder in military aviators: a retrospective study of prevalence. 30 Jul 2009
- Religious involvement and risk of major depression in a prospective nationwide study of African American adults. 30 Jul 2009
- An evolutionary hypothesis of depression and its symptoms, adaptive value, and risk factors. 30 Jul 2009
- Premature recommendation of corticotropin-releasing hormone as screen for postpartum depression. 30 Jul 2009
- Preschool depression: homotypic continuity and course over 24 months. 30 Jul 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