objective: mindfulness skills are assumed to be related with emotions. deficits in emotion ‎regulation could lead to development and persistence of mood disorders. dysthymia and double ‎depression are two chronic types of depression. this chronicity can be attributed to the one’s ‎inability to regulate his/ her mood. in this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of mindfulness-‎based cognitive...

Methods In the first pilot, in addition to routine CM treatment (herbal and acupuncture), CM Practitioners also provided general psychological counseling, advice on dietary regime and self-administered acupressure based on syndrome differentiation for dysthymia. The Centre on Behavioral Health at the University of Hong Kong was commissioned in the second phase to develop a tailormade I-BMS inte...

Traditional herbal (Kampo) medicines have been used since ancient times to treat patients with mental disorders. In the present report, we describe four patients with dysthymia successfully treated with Kampo medicines: Kamiuntanto (KUT). These four patients fulfilled the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria for dysthymic disorder with easy fatigability and sl...

There is now some evidence that depressed mood is associated with activation of the immune system. First, we evaluated, within a cross-sectional design, NKCA (in vitro) in 49 subjects meeting inclusion criteria either for a major depressive episode, for dysthymia, or for "double depression". We found that recent and long depressive episodes (dysthymia) are associated with a lower immunodepressi...

Results: Depressive disorders were diagnosed in 84 (78.5%) patients, including: a major depressive episode in 31 (29%), dysthymia in 30 (28%), and an episode of depression with melancholic features in 23 (21.5%). Only 23 (21.5%) patients met no criteria for a mental disorder on the M.I.N.I. There were statistically significant differences among mean BDI scores in the following groups: depressio...

BACKGROUND Depressive disorders were a leading cause of burden in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 1990 and 2000 studies. Here, we analyze the burden of depressive disorders in GBD 2010 and present severity proportions, burden by country, region, age, sex, and year, as well as burden of depressive disorders as a risk factor for suicide and ischemic heart disease. METHODS AND FINDINGS Burden...

Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between depression and temporomandibular disorders (TMD), but the conclusions remain vague. The aim of this study was to examine the causal effect between depression and TMD.The reporting of this study conforms to the STROBE statement. In this retrospective cohort study, all samples were recruited from a representative subdataset of 1 million ...