Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has raised serious concerns about the mental health impact of people directed and indirectly affected by virus. Because this is a rapidly evolving situation, our goal was to explore potential risk factors trends in feelings anxiety depression among general population Canada over first 5 months pandemic. Methods: We completed on-line surveys 3,127 unique individ...

BACKGROUND Depressive thoughts are known to persist in persons with depressed mood leading to rumination and exacerbation of depressive symptoms. What has not yet been examined is whether this persistence of depressive thoughts can lead to impairment of working memory (WM). METHODS We assessed whether receiving a WM task featuring depressive cues could bias performance on a subsequent, non-de...

INTRODUCTION Although depression is often associated with poor glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), this observation has been inconsistent. This exploratory, post hoc analysis investigated associations between depression parameters and glycemic control using data from a 24-month, prospective, observational, non-interventional study evaluating glycemic response foll...

this paper describes and discusses the psychopathology and demographic data of 922 schizophernic inpatients (aged 15-66) who had been diagnosed according to dsm-iii criteria in state mental hospitals of iran. data were collected via semistructured interviews (during 1985-91) by psychologists and trained research assistants from the tehran psychiatric institute. in this research depressed mood, ...

BACKGROUND According to cognitive diathesis-stress theories, a latent cognitive vulnerability to depression is activated by negative affect in individuals at risk for depressive relapse. This vulnerability can manifest as mood-congruent memory during sad mood and may involve amygdala response, which is implicated in memory for emotionally arousing stimuli. This study examined whether amygdala m...