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Magnesium and Affective Disorders

Nutritional Neuroscience, 2002
There are several findings on the action of magnesium ions supporting their possible therapeutic potential in affective disorders. Examinations of the sleep-electroencephalogram (EEG) and of endocrine systems point to the involvement of the limbic-hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical axis as magnesium affects all elements of this system. Magnesium has
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Personality and Affective Disorders

2001
This chapter examines the relationship between personality and affective disorders, the latter as described in ICD-10 (F30–39) (WHO 1992). Anxiety disorders will only be discussed in relation to their comorbidity with affective disorders. Schizoaffective disorder (Angst and Scharfetter 1990; Marneros et al. 1991; Sauer et al.
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Alcoholism and Affective Disorder

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 1985
From January to November 1980, 421 consecutive new patient admissions to a large alcohol treatment facility were interviewed and diagnosed using the Affective Disorder Section of the Research Diagnostic Criteria. The patient population was divided into two groups based on the presence of an affective disorder diagnosis.
A R, Bedi, J A, Halikas
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Indoleamines and affective disorders

Journal of Psychiatric Research, 1972
Abstract The role of the indoleamines in the affective disorders is reviewed. There is increasing evidence of abnormal indoleamine metabolism in depression and mania. In depression the urinary excretion of tryptamine and the cerebrospinal fluid concentration of 5-hydroxy-indoleacetic acid is considerably reduced.
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Neurogenesis and affective disorders

European Journal of Neuroscience, 2011
AbstractThe neurogenesis hypothesis of depression was originally formed upon the demonstration that stress impacts levels of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Since then much work has established that newborn neurons in the dentate gyrus are required for mediating some of the beneficial effects of antidepressant treatment. Recent studies combining
Benjamin A, Samuels, René, Hen
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Seasonality in affective disorders

General and Comparative Endocrinology, 2018
Humans retain neurobiological responses to circadian day-night cycles and seasonal changes in daylength in spite of a life-style usually independent of dawn-dusk signals. Seasonality has been documented in many functions, from mood to hormones to gene expression.
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Biochemistry of the Affective Disorders

Hospital Practice, 1979
Specific brain biochemical anomalies in depression and mania remain to be fully elucidated, but some significant clinical progress has been made. The “norepinephrine hypothesis” has led to approaches that often make it possible to single out the patient most likely to respond to a particular tricyclic agent. In some patients, deranged circadian rhythms
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Seasonal Affective Disorders

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2012
Edited by Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud, RN, PhD, FAANUniversity of California—Los Angeles, School of Nursing, Los Angeles, California, USAA young man I know doesn't like summer weather or the length of s...
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Dehydroepiandrosterone and affective disorders

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1982
C R, Hansen, J, Kroll, T B, Mackenzie
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Homicide and Affective Disorder

Medicine, Science and the Law, 2004
The background, offence characteristics and psychiatric diagnosis were reviewed of 115 referrals of offenders charged with homicide made by procurators fiscal to the State Hospital, Carstairs, Scotland's only special secure hospital. A retrospective case-note review was performed using a structured questionnaire.
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