Browsing Depressive Disorders by Title
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Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics in the assessment of major depressive disorder
(2023-08)Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous mental disorder. International guidelines present overall symptom severity as the key dimension for clinical characterisation. However, additional layers of individual ... -
Translating the promise of 5HT4 receptor agonists for the treatment of depression
(2020-02)Animal experimental studies suggest that 5-HT4 receptor activation holds promise as a novel target for the treatment of depression and cognitive impairment. 5-HT4 receptors are postsynaptic receptors that are located in ... -
Treatment-resistant depression: therapeutic options when first-line treatments fail
(2021-12)The Cochrane review by Davies et al aimed to address the lack of clarity on the risks and benefits of switching and augmentation strategies in the pharmacological treatment of treatment-resistant depression in adults who ... -
Trends in antidepressant prescriptions in children and young people in England, 1998–2017: protocol of a cohort study using linked primary care and secondary care datasets
(2019-06)Introduction: Increasing numbers of children and young people (CYP) are receiving prescriptions for antidepressants. This is the protocol of a study aiming to describe the trends and variation in antidepressant prescriptions ... -
Using Computational Psychiatry to Rule Out the Hidden Causes of Depression
(2017-08)In an ideal world, our understanding of the causes of psychiatric disorders would progress by testing mechanistic hypotheses in experimental studies, using the results of these studies to identify situations in which the ... -
Using the 11-item Version of the RCADS to Identify Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents
(2021)The purpose of this study was to identify items from the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale – RCADS-C/P that provided a brief, reliable and valid screen for anxiety and/or depressive disorders in adolescents. ... -
Value of monitoring negative emotional bias in primary care in England for personalised antidepressant treatment: a modelling study
(2019-11)Depressed patients often focus on negative life events. Effective antidepressant therapy reverses this negative emotional bias (NEB) within 1 week. Clinical therapeutic effect usually requires 4–6 weeks. The value of ... -
Variation in recognition of happy and sad facial expressions and self-reported depressive symptom severity: A prospective cohort study
(2019-06)Objective:Cognitive theories suggest people with depression interpret self-referential social information negatively. However, it is unclear whether these biases precede or follow depression. We investigated whether facial ... -
Vortioxetine for depression: the evidence for its current use in the UK: COMMENTARY ON… COCHRANE CORNER
(2018-12-17)The pharmacological treatment of depression is often hampered by side-effects and unsatisfactory response to treatment. Vortioxetine is one of the newest antidepressants on the market, purportedly with a different mechanism ... -
Withdrawal, dependence and adverse events of antidepressants: lessons from patients and data
(2019-10)Editorial.