Depressive Disorder, Major - Physiopathology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Major depression and coronary flow reserve detected by positron emission tomography.

10 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD), but the mechanisms are unclear. The presence of MDD may increase CHD risk by affecting microvascular circulation. It is also plausible that genetic factors ... Read more...

Effects of propofol or etomidate on QT interval during electroconvulsive therapy.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Because patients with major depression have an altered autonomic nervous system activity, the risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death may be increased. In addition, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may cause an acute rise in QT ... Read more...

Automated 3D mapping of hippocampal atrophy and its clinical correlates in 400 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and elderly controls.

30 Aug 2009 We used a new method we developed for automated hippocampal segmentation, called the auto context model, to analyze brain MRI scans of 400 subjects from the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative. After training the classifier on 21 ... Read more...

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

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Major depression and coronary flow reserve detected by positron emission tomography. 10 Oct 2009
• Effects of propofol or etomidate on QT interval during electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Automated 3D mapping of hippocampal atrophy and its clinical correlates in 400 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and elderly controls. 30 Aug 2009
• Working-memory fMRI reveals cingulate hyperactivation in euthymic major depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Neuropeptide and sigma receptors as novel therapeutic targets for the pharmacotherapy of depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Magnetic resonance imaging and prediction of outcome in patients with major depressive disorder. 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
• Vulnerability to depression: what is the role of stress genes in gene x environment interaction? 30 Aug 2009
• Analyzing gene expression in depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Comparative effectiveness of biomarkers and clinical indicators for predicting outcomes of SSRI treatment in Major Depressive Disorder: results of the BRITE-MD study. 25 Aug 2009
• Brain activation to favorite music in healthy controls and depressed patients. 24 Aug 2009
• Effectiveness of a quantitative electroencephalographic biomarker for predicting differential response or remission with escitalopram and bupropion in major depressive disorder. 24 Aug 2009
• Clinical symptoms of major depression are associated with the intensity dependence of auditory event-related potential components. 20 Aug 2009
• Frontolimbic activity and cognitive bias in major depression. 30 Jul 2009
• Increased self-focus in major depressive disorder is related to neural abnormalities in subcortical-cortical midline structures. 30 Jul 2009
• Attentional modulation of emotional stimulus processing in patients with major depression--alterations in prefrontal cortical regions. 22 Jul 2009
• Gray matter reduction associated with emotion regulation in female outpatients with major depressive disorder: a voxel-based morphometry study. 17 Jul 2009
• Treatment effects of serotonergic and noradrenergic antidepressants on the intensity dependence of auditory ERP components in major depression. 14 Jul 2009
• A molecular signature of depression in the amygdala. 13 Jul 2009
• Enhanced visual motion perception in major depressive disorder. 13 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