Depression

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Depression

General Information

NEWS:

Eight Percent of Adults Experienced Major Depression in Past Year

Menstrual Cycle Affects Depression Symptoms

ARTICLES:

College Mental Health Fact Sheet: Depression

Depression And Older Americans

Let?s Talk Facts about Depression

NGC - Adult primary care depression guidelines. (2004)

NGC - Depression (2004)

NGC - Depression (2004)

NGC - Major depression in adults in primary care. (2004)

NGC - Management of adults with major depression. (2004)

NICE - Depression in children and young people (2005)

Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Age-Related Characteristics of Depression: A Preliminary STAR*D Report. (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005)

Anxiety and depression are associated with unhealthy lifestyle in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease. (Atherosclerosis. 2005)

Brief report: Delinquent behaviour and depression in middle adolescence: a Finnish community sample. (J Adolesc. 2005)

Bulimic symptoms, cognitions, and body dissatisfaction in women with major depressive disorder. (Int J Eat Disord. 2005)

Childhood physical and sexual abuse and subsequent depressive and anxiety disorders for two American Indian tribes. (Psychol Med. 2005)

Coronary and aortic calcification in women with a history of major depression. (Arch Intern Med. 2005)

Depression and bone mineral density in a community sample of perimenopausal women: Geelong Osteoporosis Study. (Menopause. 2005)

Depression and cardiovascular disease: a reciprocal relationship. (Metabolism. 2005)

Depression and the risk of Alzheimer disease. (Epidemiology. 2005)

Depression in the young, parental depression and parenting stress. (Australas Psychiatry. 2005)

Depression in women. (Metabolism. 2005)

Depressive disorders in primary care: recurrent, chronic, and co-morbid. (Psychol Med. 2005)

Depressive symptoms and treatment after acute coronary syndrome. (Int J Cardiol. 2005)

Depressive symptoms, sex, and risk for Alzheimer's disease. (Ann Neurol. 2005)

Families at High and Low Risk for Depression (Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005)

Gluten-free diet may alleviate depressive and behavioural symptoms in adolescents with coeliac disease: a prospective follow-up case-series study. (BMC Psychiatry. 2005)

Homocysteine Levels, MTHFR C677T Genotype, and MRI Hyperintensities in Late-Onset Major Depressive Disorder. (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005)

Hypertension and depression. (Clinics. 2005)

Increased arachidonic acid concentration in the brain of Flinders Sensitive Line rats, an animal model of depression (Journal of Lipid Research 2005)

Insulin resistance and depression: cross sectional study (BMJ)

Is vascular depression a distinct sub-type of depressive disorder? A review of causal evidence. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005)

Low Testosterone Levels Predict Incident Depressive Illness in Older Men: Effects of Age and Medical Morbidity. (J Clin Psychiatry. 2005)

Major depressive episode and physical health in adolescents and young adults: results from a population-based interview survey. (Eur J Public Health. 2005)

Neurobiological basis of depression: an update. (Metabolism. 2005)

Prevalence and clinical correlates of irritability in major depressive disorder: a preliminary report from the sequenced treatment alternatives to relieve depression study. (J Clin Psychiatry. 2005)

Prevalence and comorbidity of major depressive disorder in young black and white women. (J Psychiatr Res. 2005)

Prevalence of Depressive Disorders in Men and Women Enrolled in Cardiac Rehabilitation. (J Cardiopulm Rehabil. 2005)

Psychological distress and help-seeking in patients with chronic pain. (Chang Gung Med J. 2005)

Reflections on depression as a cardiac risk factor. (Psychosom Med. 2005)

Relationship of homocysteine, folic acid and vitamin B12 with depression in a middle-aged community sample. (Psychol Med. 2005)

Sex differences in the relationship between social support and risk for major depression: a longitudinal study of opposite-sex twin pairs. (Am J Psychiatry. 2005)

Size and burden of depressive disorders in Europe. (Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005)

Symptoms of depression in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea may be amenable to treatment with continuous positive airway pressure. (Chest. 2005)

Substance use disorder comorbidity in major depressive disorder: an exploratory analysis of the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression cohort. (Compr Psychiatry. 2005)

Suicide in depressive disorders: A retrospective case-control study of 127 suicides. (J Affect Disord. 2005)

The relationship between serum folate, vitamin B12, and homocysteine levels in major depressive disorder and the timing of improvement with fluoxetine. (Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005)

The vital link between chronic disease and depressive disorders. (Prev Chronic Dis. 2005)

Unipolar depression with racing thoughts: A bipolar spectrum disorder? (Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NCI - Depression

NIH - Depression

NIH - Depression Resources

NIH - Depression Tutorial

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Depression

NIH - NIMH Depression

NIH - NIMH Depression

NIH - Postpartum Depression

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