Depression

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Depression

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

Brain Change in Depressed Teens

ARTICLES:

Depression Symptoms

How Is Depression Diagnosed?

Rethinking childhood depression

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A longitudinal study of hippocampal volume, cortisol levels, and cognition in older depressed subjects. (Am J Psychiatry)

Amygdala and hippocampus volumes in pediatric major depression. (Biol Psychiatry. 2005)

Anatomic evaluation of the orbitofrontal cortex in major depressive disorder. (Biol Psychiatry)

Anatomical MRI study of hippocampus and amygdala in patients with current and remitted major depression. (Psychiatry Res)

Are higher rates of depression in women accounted for by differential symptom reporting? (Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol)

Child and adolescent clinical features as forerunners of adult-onset major depressive disorder: retrospective evidence from an epidemiological sample (Journal of Affective Disorders )

[Depression common among young people with somatic disorders. Fatigue, lack of emotional engagement, increased need of sleep are some of the warning signals] (Lakartidningen)

Depressive symptoms: how do adolescents compare with adults? (J Adolesc Health)

Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on frontal white matter in late-life depression: a diffusion tensor imaging study. (Neuropsychobiology)

Hippocampal Volume and Depression: A Meta-Analysis of MRI Studies (Am J Psychiatry)

Hippocampal volume in early onset depression (BMC Medicine)

Lower hippocampal volume in patients suffering from depression: a meta-analysis. (Am J Psychiatry)

Mapping brain size and cortical gray matter changes in elderly depression. (Biol Psychiatry)

Neuroplasticity: from MRI to depressive symptoms. (Eur Neuropsychopharmacol)

Outcomes of newly referred neurology outpatients with depression and pain (NEUROLOGY )

MRI study of the pituitary gland in adolescent depression. (J Psychiatr Res)

Prognostic value of frontal functional neuroimaging in late-onset severe major depression. (Br J Psychiatry)

Screening for depression in primary care: what do we still need to know? (Depress Anxiety)

Screening for suicide risk in adults: a summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (Ann Intern Med)

Somatic symptoms most often associated with depression in an urban hospital medical setting in Japan. (Psychiatry Res)

The clock drawing test as a measure of executive dysfunction in elderly depressed patients. (J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol)

The relationship of regional cerebral blood flow with subtypes of major depression. (Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry)

Volumetric analysis of the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus in major depression. (Neuropsychopharmacology)

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