Major depressive disorder is associated with dysfunction in brain regions involved in language and emotion processing. Despite evidence of emotion processing biases in depression, neurophysiological evidence of language dysfunction for emotional words in depression has been inconsistent. This series of three studies evaluated whether depressed individuals exhibited abnormal semantic processing ...

Similar considerations apply to the use of the term euthymia in unipolar depression and dysthymia, where the overlap with the concept of recovery is considerable [9, 10] . Again, euthymia is often defined essentially in negative terms, as a lack of a certain intensity of mood symptoms, and not as the presence of specific positive features that characterize recovery [9] . This introduces the nee...

conclusion the results of this study show that adding mbct to pharmacotherapy in treatment of dysthymic patients can cause significant improvement in depression symptoms and mindfulness skills in patients compared to pharmacotherapy alone. results in this study, no statistically significant differences were found between the two groups regarding the demographic characteristics. the mean differe...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by severe disruption of interpersonal relationships, yet very little research has examined the relationship between maternal BPD and offspring psychosocial functioning. The present study examined 815 mothers and their 15-year-old children from a community-based sample to determine (1) if there is an association between mothers' BPD symptoms...

C R I a h p a m m b c c Background: There is interest from the community in the use of self-help and complementary therapies for depression. This review examined the currently available evidence supporting the use of acupuncture to treat depression. Objectives: To examine the effectiveness and adverse effects of acupuncture in the treatment for depression. Search Strategy: The following databas...

What determines which features are more central in concepts? Sloman, Love, and Ahn (1998) examined laypeople’s concepts about everyday objects (e.g., chairs and apples) and found that lay theories of these concepts determined feature centrally as much as category validity judgments (i.e., how prevalent features are in a given category) did. The current study examined determinants of feature cen...

Systematic studies of psychiatric disorders in non -ulcer dyspepsia are rare. The aim of the present study was to find out the nature and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in non-ulcer dyspepsia. Thirty three patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and thirty with duodenal ulcer were assessed for psychiatric morbidity with the help of the regular version of the SADS, and diagnosed according to DSM-...