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Selby Jacobs

Researcher at Yale University

Publications -  56
Citations -  4478

Selby Jacobs is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Grief & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 56 publications receiving 4123 citations. Previous affiliations of Selby Jacobs include University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Traumatic grief as a risk factor for mental and physical morbidity.

TL;DR: The results suggest that it may not be the stress of bereavement, per se, that puts individuals at risk for long-term mental and physical health impairments and adverse health behaviors.
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An epidemiological review of the mortality of bereavement.

TL;DR: Empirical literature revealing excess mortality in the newly widowed is reviewed and pathogenetic mechanisms resulting from a loss are probably twofold: physiologic changes associated with the loss response and behavioral changes that comprise health maintenance or chronic disease management.
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Caring for Bereaved Patients: All the Doctors Just Suddenly Go

Holly G. Prigerson, +1 more
- 19 Sep 2001 - 
TL;DR: This work examines the experience of a woman widowed for 2 years to illustrate distinctions between symptoms and outcomes of uncomplicated and complicated grief, recommend approaches to physician interactions with bereaved patients, and offer guidelines for professional intervention in aftercare.
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Adverse life events and cognitive-personality characteristics in the prediction of major depression and antidepressant response.

TL;DR: Adverse life events are a potent factor in predicting depression, however, cognitive-personality characteristics also confer susceptibility to depression.