Hypermethylation in the ZBTB20 gene is associated with major depressive disorder [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Although genetic variation is believed to contribute to an individual's susceptibility to major depressive disorder, genome-wide association studies have not yet identified associations that could explain the full etiology of the disease ...
Alexis Battle +22 more
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Tobacco smoking as a risk factor for major depressive disorder : a population-based study
, 2008 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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Microstructural Correlates of Resilience against Major Depressive Disorder: Epigenetic Mechanisms? [PDF]
, 2010 Mental disorders are a major cause of long-term disability and are a direct cause of mortality, with approximately 800.000 individuals dying from suicide every year worldwide - a high proportion of them related to major depressive disorder (MDD)^1 ...
Andrew Fagan +8 more
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Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2022 Objective: To evaluate the impact of defense mechanisms at baseline on depressive symptoms after brief psychotherapies and after 6-months of follow-up among depressed patients with and without cluster B personality disorders (PDs).
Carolina Rheingantz Scaini +8 more
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Maintenance deep transcranial magnetic stimulation sessions are associated with reduced depressive relapses in patients with unipolar or bipolar depression [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS) is a new form of TMS allowing safe stimulation of deep brain regions. The objective of this preliminary study was to assess the role of dTMS maintenance sessions in protecting patients with ...
ANGELETTI, Gloria +11 more
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Non-REM sleep in major depressive disorder
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 Disturbed sleep is a key symptom in major depressive disorder (MDD). REM sleep alterations are well described in the current literature, but little is known about non-REM sleep alterations.
Leonore Bovy +7 more
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Retinoid homeostasis in major depressive disorder
Translational Psychiatry, 2023 The small, hormone-like molecule retinoic acid (RA) is a vital regulator in several neurobiological processes that are affected in depression. Next to its involvement in dopaminergic signal transduction, neuroinflammation, and neuroendocrine regulation ...
Lisa Rebecca Otto +5 more
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Sleep‐disordered breathing in major depressive disorder [PDF]
, 2013 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99077/1/jsr12029 ...
Armitage, Roseanne +5 more
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Applying a Dynamical Systems Model and Network Theory to Major Depressive Disorder [PDF]
, 2019 Mental disorders like major depressive disorder can be seen as complex dynamical systems. In this study we investigate the dynamic behaviour of individuals to see whether or not we can expect a transition to another mood state.
Gordijn, Marijke C M +3 more
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How major depressive disorder affects the ability to decode multimodal dynamic emotional stimuli [PDF]
, 2016 Most studies investigating the processing of emotions in depressed patients reported impairments in the decoding of negative emotions. However, these studies adopted static stimuli (mostly stereotypical facial expressions corresponding to basic emotions)
Esposito, Anna +4 more
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