Tobacco smoking as a risk factor for major depressive disorder : a population-based study
Background : Smoking is disproportionately prevalent among people with psychiatric illness. Aims : To investigate smoking as a risk factor for major depressive disorder. Method : A population-based sample of women was studied using case–control and
Berk, Michael+7 more
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ABSTRACT Objective People with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) may require a high level of daily assistance both for indoor and outdoor activities. Usually, relatives or friends provide daily support to MS patients who have lost personal autonomy. Several factors such as disability level and disease duration may affect the burden of care in caregivers of ...
Giuseppe Schirò+9 more
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Prevalence of depressive disorder among elderly people in China: a Meta-analysis
BackgroundDepressive disorder is one of the most common mental disorders in the elderly and the existing meta-analyses on the prevalence of depressive disorder among the elderly have mainly summarized the findings from patient self-rating scales or ...
Wu Ping+4 more
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Symptoms of Depression But Not Depressive Disorder
I thank Hoen et al. ([1][1]) and the Heart and Soul Study for drawing attention to the psychological factors that co-occur with and influence cardiovascular (CV) disease. Hoen et al. ([1][1]) reported exciting results with individual symptoms predicting CV events.
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Many neuroimaging studies have investigated reward processing dysfunction in major depressive disorder. These studies have led to the common idea that major depressive disorder is associated with blunted responses within the reward circuit, particularly ...
Tommy H. Ng, L. Alloy, D. Smith
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Cerebello‐Prefrontal Connectivity Underlying Cognitive Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2
ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is a hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorder, with motor and cognitive symptoms. The constellation of cognitive symptoms due to cerebellar degeneration is named cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS), which has increasingly been recognized to profoundly impact patients' quality of life;
Ami Kumar+7 more
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Cornu Ammonis Changes Are at the Core of Hippocampal Pathology in Depression
Commentary on: Roddy DW, Farrell C, Doolin K, Roman E, Tozzi L, Frodl T, O'Keane V, O'Hanlon E. The Hippocampus in Depression: More Than the Sum of Its Parts? Advanced Hippocampal Substructure Segmentation in Depression. Biol Psychiatry. 2019 Mar 15;85(6)
Darren Roddy, Veronica O’Keane
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Identifying Depressive Symptoms from Tweets: Figurative Language Enabled Multitask Learning Framework [PDF]
Existing studies on using social media for deriving mental health status of users focus on the depression detection task. However, for case management and referral to psychiatrists, healthcare workers require practical and scalable depressive disorder screening and triage system. This study aims to design and evaluate a decision support system (DSS) to
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AudVowelConsNet: A Phoneme-Level Based Deep CNN Architecture for Clinical Depression Diagnosis [PDF]
Depression is a common and serious mood disorder that negatively affects the patient's capacity of functioning normally in daily tasks. Speech is proven to be a vigorous tool in depression diagnosis. Research in psychiatry concentrated on performing fine-grained analysis on word-level speech components contributing to the manifestation of depression in
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Understanding mechanisms of genetic risk for adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems: The mediating role of parenting and personality [PDF]
Genetic predispositions play an important role in the development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Understanding the mechanisms through which genetic risk unfolds to influence these developmental outcomes is critical for developing ...
Bucholz, Kathleen K+6 more
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