Showing papers in "Journal of Affective Disorders in 2015"

TL;DR: With the propensity for mental health issues to hinder the success of college students, it is vital that colleges continually evaluate the mental health of their students and tailor treatment programs to specifically target their needs.

TL;DR: The substantial symptom variation among individuals who all qualify for one diagnosis calls into question the status of MDD as a specific consistent syndrome and offers a potential explanation for the difficulty in documenting treatment efficacy.

TL;DR: The current prevalence of postpartum depression is much higher than that previously reported, and similar risk factors are documented.

TL;DR: The strongest and most consistent findings were significant protective effects of perceived emotional support, perceived instrumental support, and large, diverse social networks, which appear to be underutilized as measures in population-based studies.

TL;DR: Serum BDNF might be regarded as a biomarker for the successful treatment of MDD and plasma BDNF measurements seem more reliable than plasma ones, and evidence for the usage of BDNF as a predictive biomarker in BD is increased.

TL;DR: Although strong empirical evidence regarding the associations among breastfeeding and pregnancy or postpartum depression was separately provided, further research, such as prospective studies, is needed to clarify the association among these three variables.

TL;DR: Continued standardization of study designs and analytic strategies as well as aggregation of larger datasets will allow the field to better elucidate the potential mechanisms of action of treatment response in patients with MDD to ultimately generate algorithms to predict which patients will respond to which antidepressant treatments.

TL;DR: There is strong evidence that CBT interventions are effective for treating and preventing depression during the perinatal period and further methodologically rigorous studies are needed to further investigate potential moderators of treatment efficacy.

TL;DR: The findings underline the importance of prevention initiatives focused on the self- Harm population, especially during the initial months following an episode of self-harm,especially during theInitial months following a episode ofSelf-harm.

TL;DR: Although peripartum anxiety and depressive disorders appeared to be persistent in some women, others reported major changes with heterogeneous courses and shifts between diagnoses and contents, highlighting the importance of a comprehensive assessment in perinatal care.

TL;DR: The findings can be useful for clinicians when they switch antidepressants and for researchers when they compare various antidepressants in their research and assumes dose response relationship of antidepressants.

TL;DR: Parental factors with a sound evidence base indicating increased risk for both depression and internalizing problems include more inter-parental conflict and aversiveness; and for internalizing outcomes additionally, they include less warmth and more abusive parenting and over-involvement.

TL;DR: Primary care patients' acceptance of IBIs for depressive symptoms was low but could be increased significantly using a brief acceptance facilitating intervention on the basis of an informational video.

TL;DR: Uncertainty remains regarding the comparability of the sensitivity and specificity estimates of different EPDS versions, and future studies should have larger sample sizes, include both representative and clinical samples, and look at the psychometric performance of the EPDS in each trimester.

TL;DR: Commonly used depression symptom rating scales are reliable measures of depressive symptoms among adolescents; however, using cutoff scores to indicate clinical levels of depression may result in many false positives.

TL;DR: Consistent across European countries, internalizing disorders are more common among women and externalizing disorders among men, whereas gender differences in suicidality varied.

TL;DR: It is suggested that cannabis use may worsen the occurrence of manic symptoms in those diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and may also act as a causal risk factor in the incidence of manic Symptoms.

TL;DR: The extent of obesity predicted depressive symptoms and low HRQOL and in contrast to population-based studies, sex, age, pubertal status and family history of depression did not predict depressive symptoms.

TL;DR: Automated mobile-phone intervention is feasible, acceptable, and may enhance the impact of brief psychoeducation on depressive symptoms in bipolar disorder, however, sustainment of gains from symptom self-management mobile interventions, once stopped, may be limited.

TL;DR: Altered cingulum bundle microstructure in unaffected relatives may either indicate resilience or vulnerability to depression, and Uncinate fasciculus and supero-lateral medial forebrain bundlemicrostructure may be altered during depressive episodes in adult MDD.

TL;DR: CBT is superior to TAU and the size of the effect of CBT compared toTAU depends on the nature of the TAU condition, which in this case was anxiety and depressive disorders.

TL;DR: The findings do not support a longitudinal association between cannabis use and incidence of major depressive disorder, but Baseline MDD, but not BPD, may be associated with future initiation of cannabis use.

TL;DR: Clinically the need for a scale for pregnancy-related anxiety with sound theoretical and psychometric properties is highlighted by the potential intervention opportunities this may afford, and future research should be directed towards the development of such a scale.

TL;DR: There is supporting evidence that preventive psychological interventions reduce the risk of relapse or recurrence in major depression.

TL;DR: Natural causes of death is the most prevalent reason for lost life years already from adolescence and increases substantially during early and mid-adulthood, in this way supporting the hypothesis of accelerated aging.

TL;DR: Results suggest that a more refined 7-factor model of DSM-5 PTSD symptoms may provide greater specificity in understanding associations with comorbid psychopathology, suicidal ideation, and functioning and quality of life in U.S. veterans.

TL;DR: This study analyzed the relationship between chronotype and depression using a combined population-based sample of 10,503 Finnish adults aged 25 to 74 years from the two national FINRISK 2007 and 2012 health examination studies confirming that Evening-types have higher risk for depression than other chronotypes.

TL;DR: Firefighters report an alarmingly high career prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, indicating the need for additional research as well as increased prevention and treatment efforts among firefighters to decrease suicide risk.

TL;DR: It is indicated that emotion regulation is a mediator between attachment and depression, whereas evidence for deactivating strategies as mediators between avoidant attachment and depressive symptoms has been mixed.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that depressive components of all major affective disorders accounted for 86% of the 43-46% of time in affective morbidity that occurred despite availability of effective treatments, and encourage redoubled efforts to improve treatments for depression and adherence to their long-term use.