Depressive Disorder, Major - Psychology
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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...

Defense mechanisms and Major Depressive Disorder in African American women.

29 Sep 2009 This study explored differences in defense use between a group of predominantly African American women diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD; n = 20) and a healthy control sample (n = 20), both from a primary care medical clinic. Patients ... Read more...

Influence of personality on objective and subjective social support among patients with major depressive disorder: a prospective study.

29 Sep 2009 Personality and social support (SS) influence risk for depression and modify its outcome through multiple pathways. The impact of personality dimensions neuroticism and extraversion on SS among patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) has been ... Read more...

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

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
• 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
• Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• Four years of successful maintenance electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical outcomes and quality of life in patients submitted to electroconvulsive therapy. 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
• Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall. 30 Aug 2009
• Vulnerability to depression: what is the role of stress genes in gene x environment interaction? 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
• Clinical messages from the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS). 30 Aug 2009
• Genome-wide association study of suicidal ideation emerging during citalopram treatment of depressed outpatients. 30 Aug 2009
• Atypical antipsychotic augmentation in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomized trials. 15 Aug 2009
• The relation of maternal sensitivity to children's internalizing and externalizing problems within the context of maternal depressive symptoms. 2 Aug 2009
• Paranoid personality has a dimensional latent structure: taxometric analyses of community and clinical samples. 30 Jul 2009
• Ten-year stability and latent structure of the DSM-IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• Frontolimbic activity and cognitive bias in major depression. 30 Jul 2009
• [Agomelatine] 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