Depression

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Depression

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JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Abnormal serotonin reuptake in an overtrained, insomnic and depressed team athlete. (Int J Sports Med)

Are Mood Disorders and Obesity Related? A Review for the Mental Health Professional. (J Clin Psychiatry)

Association between depressive symptoms and serum concentrations of homocysteine in men: a population study (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Can physical activity improve the mental health of older adults? (Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry)

Cerebrovascular reactivity in major depression: a pilot study. (Psychosom Med)

Depression and adipose polyunsaturated fatty acids in the survivors of the Seven Countries Study population of Crete. (Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids)

Depression and cardiovascular sequelae in postmenopausal women. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI). (Arch Intern Med)

Depression and C-Reactive Protein in US Adults (Arch Intern Med)

Depressive symptoms and health risk among rural adolescents. (Pediatrics)

Depressive Symptoms and Mortality in Men. Results From the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. (Stroke)

Depressive symptoms and mortality risk in a national sample: confounding effects of health status. (Psychosom Med)

Depressive symptoms, insulin resistance, and risk of diabetes in women at midlife. (Diabetes Care)

Does the risk of developing dementia increase with the number of episodes in patients with depressive disorder and in patients with bipolar disorder? (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

Effects of fish oil on the central nervous system: a new potential antidepressant? (Nutr Neurosci)

Elevated neuron number in the limbic thalamus in major depression. (Am J Psychiatry)

[Evolution of depressive disorders.] (Presse Med)

Executive deficits in elderly patients with major unipolar depression. (J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol)

Factors that differentiate early vs. later onset of major depression disorder (Psychiatry Research )

Familiality of symptom dimensions in depression. (Arch Gen Psychiatry)

Food and nutrient intake in relation to mental wellbeing. (Nutr J)

Gender differences in depression: a study of older unlike-sex twins. (Aging Ment Health)

Genes related to vascular disease (APOE, VLDL-R, DCP-1) and other vascular factors in late-life depression. (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Glial reduction in amygdala in major depressive disorder is due to oligodendrocytes. (Biol Psychiatry)

Hippocampal volume change in depression: late- and early-onset illness compared (The British Journal of Psychiatry)

In humans, the seasonal variation in poly-unsaturated fatty acids is related to the seasonal variation in violent suicide and serotonergic markers of violent suicide. (Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids)

Inflammation, coagulation, and depressive symptomatology in cardiovascular disease-free people; the ATTICA study. (Eur Heart J)

Involvement in physical activity and risk for nearly lethal suicide attempts. (Am J Prev Med)

Is major depression a neurologic disorder with psychiatric symptoms? (Epilepsy Behav)

Low plasma vitamin E levels in major depression: diet or disease? (Eur J Clin Nutr)

Major depression following traumatic brain injury. (Arch Gen Psychiatry)

Major depression is associated with lower omega-3 fatty acid levels in patients with recent acute coronary syndromes. (Biol Psychiatry)

Medical comorbidity in late-life depression. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Mental disorders in obese children and adolescents. (Psychosom Med)

Neuropathologic correlates of late-onset major depression. (Neuropsychopharmacology)

Omega-3 fatty acids and major depression: A primer for the mental health professional. (Lipids Health Dis)

Preliminary evaluation of a 10-wk. resistance and cardiovascular exercise protocol on physiological and psychological measures for a sample of older women. (Percept Mot Skills)

Prevalence of major depression and stress indicators in the Danish general population. (Acta Psychiatr Scand)

Prospective assessment of sexual function in women treated for recurrent major depression (Journal of Psychiatric Research)

Social supports and serotonin transporter gene moderate depression in maltreated children. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A)

Suicide attempt and n-3 fatty acid levels in red blood cells: a case control study in China. (Biol Psychiatry)

The course of depression in elderly patients. (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry)

The mechanism of action of antidepressants: a unitary hypothesis based on transport-p. (Curr Drug Targets CNS Neurol Disord)

The nature and determinants of neuropsychological functioning in late-life depression. (Arch Gen Psychiatry)

The Outcome of Physical Symptoms with Treatment of Depression (J Gen Intern Med)

[The relation between thyroid function and depression: a review] (Rev Bras Psiquiatr)

The Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS): Demographic and Clinical Characteristics. (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005)

Vascular disease risk factors as determinants of incident depressive symptoms: a prospective community-based study. (Psychol Med)

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