Browsing Duke Faculty Scholarship by Subject "major depression"

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Autonomic cardiovascular dysregulation as a potential mechanism underlying depression and coronary artery bypass grafting surgery outcomes

Youssef, Nagy A. (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is often used to treat patients with significant coronary heart disease (CHD). To date, multiple longitudinal and cross-sectional studies have examined the association ...
Hippocampus Shape Analysis and Late-Life Depression

Zhao, Zheen; Taylor, Warren; MacFall, James (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008)

Major depression in the elderly is associated with brain structural changes and vascular lesions. Changes in the subcortical regions of the limbic system have also been noted. Studies examining hippocampus volumetric ...
How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment

Moffitt, Terrie; Caspi, Avshalom; Polanczyk, G. (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010)

Background. Most information about the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders comes from retrospective surveys, but how much these surveys have undercounted due to recall failure is unknown. We compared results from a ...