Showing papers in "Journal of Affective Disorders in 2013"

TL;DR: A systematic review of the international literature on cohort and case-control studies of people with depression in which suicide was an outcome and meta-analyses of potential risk factors found factors significantly associated with suicide.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that there is a causal pathway from inflammation to depression is supported, with a robust effect which remains significant after adjustment for age and a wide range of factors associated with risk for depression.

TL;DR: This large study of psychiatric outpatients with major depressive disorder used Endicott et al.'s (1981) empirically established formula for deriving a HAMD score from SADS ratings, and the results concurred with other small studies of the mean and median HAMD scores in severity groups.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness interventions are effective in reducing stress in university students and universities are encouraged to make such programs widely available to students.

TL;DR: Increased attention in future clinical studies on the influence of diet, sleep and exercise on major depressive disorder and investigations of their effect on physiological processes will help to expand the understanding and treatment of this disorder.

TL;DR: Worry and rumination-associated RNT was associated with a range of anxiety disorders and depression and with comorbidity for those with a principal depressive disorder, supporting recent evidence that RNT is a transdiagnostic process.

TL;DR: The results indicated a reduced caudate response during both monetary anticipation and outcome stages as well as increased activation in the middle frontal gyrus and dorsal anterior cingulate during reward anticipation in MDD.

TL;DR: Social support is a highly modifiable factor that can be used to improve existing suicide prevention programs worldwide and is associated with decreased likelihood of a lifetime suicide attempt.

TL;DR: The impact of the economic crisis on the mental health of the population is pervasive and services and clinicians should focus on the primary prevention of major depression as well as on its timely recognition and treatment.

TL;DR: A systemtic review of studies measuring endogenous cytokine concentrations in patients with bipolar disorder and a meta-analysis found some support for immune dysregulation in bipolar disorder.

TL;DR: Insight into impaired empathy in depression may not only help explain poor social functioning in MDD but also benefit clinician-patient interactions.

TL;DR: Despite the variation among the results of the reviewed papers, they all support the cortico-limbic hypothesis and suggest that connectivity can be more complex and that intra-regional disturbances should also be studied.

TL;DR: There is consistent data indicating widespread white matter involvement with decreased white matter FA demonstrated in three disparate areas in bipolar disorder.

TL;DR: Findings indicated LFOs abnormalities in MDD and the fALFF analysis might be a potential approach in further exploration of this disorder.

TL;DR: Actigraphy is a potentially valuable source of additional information about patients with depression, however, there are no clear guidelines for use and additional work to develop algorithms for differentiating behaviour patterns is needed.

TL;DR: Most self-harm patients have psychiatric disorders, as found in people dying by suicide, and depression and anxiety disorders are particularly common, together with ADHD and conduct disorder in adolescents.

TL;DR: BDNF methylation status could be a proxy marker for previous suicidal attempts and a clinical biomarker for poor treatment outcomes of suicidal ideation in depression.

TL;DR: There was a strong association between number of sessions per week and effect size, and it may be advisable to concentrate psychotherapy sessions within a brief time frame.

TL;DR: EL in adults with ADHD appears to be primarily associated with ADHD itself rather than comorbid conditions, and helps to explain some of the impairments not accounted for by classical features of the disorder.

TL;DR: Guided ICBT is at least as effective as group-based CBT and long-term effects can be sustained up to 3 years after treatment, and there was even a tendency for the guided ICBT group to be superior to group- based CBT at three year follow-up.

TL;DR: A dimensional view of depressive disorders is also supported in children and adolescents, suggesting SD to be a precursor to MDD.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that some psychosocial factors may be protective across cultures, and that the use of negative religious coping is associated with poorer mental health outcomes in earthquake survivors.

TL;DR: There seems to be a drop in non-fatal suicidal behaviours in the initial post-disaster period, which has been referred to as the 'honeymoon' phase, and there is a need for further studies using proper designs.

TL;DR: Child hunger appears to be a modifiable risk factor for depression and related suicide ideation in late adolescence and early adulthood, therefore prevention through the detection of such children and remedy of their circumstances may be an avenue to improve adult mental health.

TL;DR: There is initial evidence that internet-delivered BA with components of ACT can be effective in reducing symptoms of depression.

TL;DR: The MDRS-22 reports satisfactory preliminary psychometric properties with validated subscales enabling multidimensional assessment of theorised externalising symptom sub-domains, and may facilitate use in primary care settings enabling better identification of at-risk males.

TL;DR: People who do not practice physical activity have a higher chance of exhibiting symptoms of depression and anxiety when compared to those who perform physical activity regularly, and this incentive should be encouraged in both current and future public health policies.

TL;DR: Predictive models of suicide need to take into account multiple risk factors, gender differences and changes in associations over the life span, and the fit of the factors assessing the Interpersonal Theory was adequate.

TL;DR: There is insufficient evidence for the assumption that suicidality in depressed patients can be reduced with psychotherapy for depression, and available data suggest that psych therapy for depression cannot be considered to be a sufficient treatment.

TL;DR: The dysregulation in many subcortical regions in the case-control comparisons appeared insensitive to treatment, it is proposed that these act as trait vulnerability markers, or perhaps treatment insensitivity, and allow these models of MDD to be applied to fMRI literature with some confidence.