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Major depressive disorder with melancholia displays robust alterations in resting state heart rate and its variability: implications for future morbidity and mortality [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with increased heart rate and reductions in its variability (HRV) – markers of future morbidity and mortality – yet prior studies have reported contradictory effects.
Andrew H Kemp, Daniel S Quintana, Anthony Harris   +2 more
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Resurrecting melancholia [PDF]

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2007
Objective: To define melancholia as a distinct mood disorder, identified by unremitting depressed mood, vegetative dysfunction, and psychomotor disturbances, verifiable by neuroendocrine tests, and treatable by electroconvulsive therapy and tricyclic antidepressants.Method: A review of the literature of two centuries finds descriptions of severe mood ...
Max Fink, Michael Alan Taylor
exaly   +4 more sources

Catatonia and melancholia interface: exploring a new paradigm for evaluation and treatment. A case series and literature review [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundCatatonia has been increasingly associated with mood disorders and is recognized as a specifier in the DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR. The DSM-5-TR recognizes melancholia as a specifier for depressive episodes in major depressive disorder and bipolar ...
Yassir Mahgoub, Aum Pathare, Dallas Hamlin, Hassaan Gomaa, Sean Nutting, Charles Mormando, Andrew Francis   +6 more
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Depression Severity, Slow- versus Fast-Wave Neural Activity, and Symptoms of Melancholia [PDF]

Brain Sciences
Melancholia is a major and severe subtype of depression, with only limited data regarding its association with neurological phenomena. To extend the current understanding of how particular aspects of melancholia are correlated with brain activity ...
Christopher F. Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika, Ian D. Evans, Kirstan A. Vessey, Emmanuel Jesulola, Linda L. Agnew   +5 more
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Exploring the legacy of Ibn Imrân’s Treatise on melancholia in contemporary psychiatry [PDF]

European Psychiatry
Introduction Melancholia is a concept deeply intertwined with the history of mood disorders in psychiatry. Isháq Ibn Imrân, a prominent Arab-Muslim physician of the 12th century, contributed significantly to the understanding of melancholia in his era ...
S. Boudriga, M. Lagha, M. Methni, Y. Ben youssef, I. Ben romdhane, W. Homri, R. Labbane   +6 more
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Melancholia

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2012
The key question for melancholia is whether it should have status as a separate disorder and the literature of the last 12-24 months is surveyed largely from that perspective.A number of interesting findings have appeared across a broad range of issues, but, with the possible exception of some large clinical trials, remain largely unreplicated ...
Dusan, Hadzi-Pavlovic, Philip, Boyce
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Fin de l’art et la mélancolie [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2022
Based on the theory of Arthur Coleman Danto I try to outline possible similarities between the state of art after its end and the state of melancholy. The melancholic breaks the order, thus paradoxically drawing its boundaries.
Anna Luňáková
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Bittersweet Symphony: Nostalgia and Melancholia in Music Reception

Music & Science, 2023
Listening to music can cause experiences of nostalgia and melancholia. Although both concepts are theoretically related, to date they have not been analyzed together regarding their emotional and cognitive profiles.
Roland Toth, Tobias Dienlin
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Fiction in Pain: Mourning and Melancholia in Borges’s Emma Zunz and El Aleph

Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2023
In this article, I analyze the representation of mourning and melancholia in Jorge Luis Borges’s “Emma Zunz” and “El Aleph.” First, I propose a reconceptualization of mourning and melancholia.
Félix Joaquín Galván-Díaz
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White matter alterations in the internal capsule and psychomotor impairment in melancholic depression. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Emerging evidence suggests that structural brain abnormalities may play a role in the pathophysiology of melancholic depression. We set out to test whether diffusion-derived estimates of white matter structure were disrupted in melancholia in regions ...
Matthew P Hyett, Alistair Perry, Michael Breakspear, Wei Wen, Gordon B Parker   +4 more
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