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Social functioning in major depressive disorder

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An overview of social aspects of depression using the NIMH Research and Domain Criteria 'Systems for Social Processes' as a framework describes the bio-psycho-social interplay regarding impaired affiliation and attachment, impaired social communication, and impaired social perception.
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This article is published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.The article was published on 2016-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 380 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Social inhibition.

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Depression and anxiety in parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: Results indicate elevated levels of depressive symptoms amongst parents of children with IDD, and quality concerns amongst the existing literature support the need for further research, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
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Depressive spectrum disorders in cancer: prevalence, risk factors and screening for depression: a critical review.

TL;DR: Routine screening and adequate assessment of depressive spectrum disorders is necessary in patients with cancer in order to effectively manage the multifaceted and complex consequences on cancer care.
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The social hippocampus

TL;DR: Evidence for hippocampal social maps complements findings from other abstract domains, such as auditory, temporal and conceptual, allowing successful navigation through many domains of everyday life.
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The Depressed Brain: An Evolutionary Systems Theory

TL;DR: It is argued that depression reflects an adaptive response to perceived threats of aversive social outcomes that minimises the likelihood of surprising interpersonal exchanges and suggests that psychopathology typically arises from ineffectual attempts to alleviate interpersonal difficulties and/or hyper-reactive neurobiological responses to social stress.
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The epidemiology of major depressive disorder: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R).

TL;DR: Notably, major depressive disorder is a common disorder, widely distributed in the population, and usually associated with substantial symptom severity and role impairment, and while the recent increase in treatment is encouraging, inadequate treatment is a serious concern.
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Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene

TL;DR: Evidence of a gene-by-environment interaction is provided, in which an individual's response to environmental insults is moderated by his or her genetic makeup.
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Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind

TL;DR: This paper showed an adult chimpanzee a series of videotaped scenes of a human actor struggling with a variety of problems, some of which were simple, such as bananas vertically or horizontally out of reach, behind a box, and so forth; others were more complex, involving an actor unable to extricate himself from a locked cage, shivering because of a malfunctioning heater, or unable to play a phonograph because it was unplugged.
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Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression.

TL;DR: It is suggested that disrupting focal pathological activity in limbic-cortical circuits using electrical stimulation of the subgenual cingulate white matter can effectively reverse symptoms in otherwise treatment-resistant depression.
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The empathy quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences.

TL;DR: The EQ reveals both a sex difference in empathy in the general population and an empathy deficit in Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism adults, who are reported clinically to have difficulties in empathy.
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