In the last decades, psychotherapy has gained increasing acceptance as a major treatment option for mood disorders. Empirically supported treatments for major depression include cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), behavioural therapy and, to a lesser extent, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Meta-analytic evidence suggests that psychotherapy has a signi...

IMPORTANCE Mood disorders frequently co-occur with medical diseases that involve inflammatory pathophysiologic mechanisms. Immune responses can affect the brain and might increase the risk of mood disorders, but longitudinal studies of comorbidity are lacking. OBJECTIVE To estimate the effect of autoimmune diseases and infections on the risk of developing mood disorders. DESIGN Nationwide, ...

objectives : the study was designed to examine the comorbidity of pathological mood and anxiety disorders among hospitalized addicts and normal individuals.   method : fifty male addicts (n=50), hospitalized in a psychiatric center, in west of iran, and fifty normal subjects (n=50) were selected. the subjects were matched in terms of demographic characteristics. the subjects in both groups were...

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CONTEXT Little is known about prevalence rates of DSM-IV disorders across age strata of older adults, including common conditions such as individual and coexisting mood and anxiety disorders. OBJECTIVE To determine nationally representative estimates of 12-month prevalence rates of mood, anxiety, and comorbid mood-anxiety disorders across young-old, mid-old, old-old, and oldest-old community-...

BACKGROUND We aimed to outline the early risk factors for adult bipolar disorder (BPD) in adolescents with mood disorders. METHODS Adolescents (16-17 years old) with mood disorders (n = 287; 90 participants with hypomania spectrum episodes and 197 with major depressive disorder [MDD]) were identified from a community sample. Fifteen years later (at 30-33 years of age), mood episodes were asse...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to examine whether comorbid mood and anxiety disorders influence patterns of treatment or the perceived unmet need for treatment among those not receiving treatment for illegal drug use disorders. METHODS Data came from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC, 2001-2002 and 2004-2005, n = 34,653). Lifetime DSM-IV illegal drug use diso...

Mood and sleep are tightly interrelated. symptoms disorders more common in women than men often associated with reproductive events. This article reviews the current literature on reciprocal relationships between mood across phases women, such as menstrual cycle related disorders, pregnancy, climacteric, use of hormonal contraception hormone replacement therapy. seem to covary relation physiolo...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the 12-month and lifetime prevalence rates of mood and anxiety disorders in Israel and their socio-demographic correlates. METHOD A representative sample of respondents extracted from the National Population Register of non-institutionalized residents, aged 21 or older, were interviewed at home between May, 2003, and April, 2004. DSM-IV disorders were assessed using a re...

the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of mental disorders among people aged 15 and over. after a pilot study for estimating the sample size, 625 subjects were selected by random cluster sampling from family information files in sowmaesara health centre office. in this study, ghq-28 was used as a screening tool, and dsm-iii-r clinical interview checklist for diagnostic inter...