Browsing by Subject "depression"
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A Laboratory Investigation of Mindfulness and Reappraisal As Emotion Regulation Strategies
(2013)Effective emotion regulation plays an important role in psychological health. Two commonly-researched emotion regulation strategies are reappraisal, a cognitive change-based strategy, and mindfulness, an acceptance-based ... -
Adapting culturally appropriate mental health screening tools for use among conflict-affected and other vulnerable adolescents in Nigeria
(Global Mental Health, 2019)<jats:sec id="S2054425119000086_sec_a1"><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>The Boko Haram insurgency has brought turmoil and instability to Nigeria, generating a large number of internally displaced people and adding ... -
Delineating the maladaptive pathways of child maltreatment: A mediated moderation analysis of the roles of self-perception and social support
(2010)The current study investigated concurrent and longitudinal mediated and mediated moderation pathways among maltreatment, self-perception (i.e., loneliness and self-esteem), social support, and internalizing and externalizing ... -
Effects of exercise type, volume and intensity on depression in an active population
(2018-04-09)This study examined the impact of exercise type (e.g., endurance or strength training), volume and intensity on levels of depression symptomology in order to determine which of these moderators improves outcome the most. ... -
Emotion Regulation and the Experience of Future Negative Mood: The Importance of Assessing Social Support.
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2018-01)Emotion regulation refers to the use of various strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, to help manage our negative experiences, emotions, and thoughts. Although such emotion regulation often ... -
Food for Thought: How Skipping Lunch and Psychiatric Illness Affect Cognition
(2019-04-18)Meal skipping is a common disordered eating behavior in college-aged individuals. This behavior is associated with a variety of health risks, including nutritional deficits and an increased risk for eating pathology. Research ... -
Monoaminergic Regulation of MeCP2 Phosphorylation in Mouse Models of Psychiatric Disease
(2011)Activation of monoaminergic receptors is essential to the mechanism by which psychostimulants and antidepressants induce changes in behavior. Although these drugs rapidly increase monoaminergic transmission, they need to ... -
Non-Dopaminergic Motor Control: an Investigation of Serotonergic Circuitry in Parkinson’s Disease
(2018)The loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons is the fundamental hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD). In early PD stages, this is ameliorated by dopamine (DA) supplementation; however, as the disease progresses, the complete ... -
Psychological Sequelae of Obstetric Fistula in Tanzanian Women
(2015)Up to two million women worldwide have obstetric fistula, a maternal morbidity prevalent in developing countries that causes uncontrollable leaking of urine and/or feces and a persistent bad odor. There is both theoretical ... -
Revisiting the monoamine hypothesis of depression: a new perspective.
(Perspect Medicin Chem, 2014)As the incidence of depression increases, depression continues to inflict additional suffering to individuals and societies and better therapies are needed. Based on magnetic resonance spectroscopy and laboratory findings, ... -
Self-system therapy for distress associated with persistent low back pain: A randomized clinical trial.
(Psychother Res, 2016-07)OBJECTIVE: Persistent low back pain (PLBP) is associated with vulnerability to depression. PLBP frequently requires major changes in occupation and lifestyle, which can lead to a sense of failing to attain one's personal ... -
The association between cognitive function and subsequent depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
(Psychol Med, 2017-01)Despite a growing interest in understanding the cognitive deficits associated with major depressive disorder (MDD), it is largely unknown whether such deficits exist before disorder onset or how they might influence the ... -
The Company You Keep: The Relationship between Friendship Qualities and Mental Health among Undergraduates
(2019-04)Prior research has shown that stress and mental illnesses increase during college years. Strong social support may contribute to better mental health while weak social support may exacerbate mental illnesses. Because college ... -
The Cost of Co-Rumination: Excessive Problem Discussion is Linked to Anxiety, Depression, and Negative Friendship Features in College Students
(2016-05-01)Co-rumination is the extensive discussion and speculation about problems that occurs in dyadic relationships, and has been found to be linked to both positive friendship quality and internalizing symptoms for youth (Rose, ... -
The Effects of Everyday Discrimination on the Mental Health of Muslim Students at Duke University
(2019-04-10)This thesis seeks to elucidate the relationship between experiences of discrimination and mental health state among the Muslim population at Duke. In the first chapter, I argue that although the negative relationship between ... -
The Influence of Elective Surgery on Health in Veterans with Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2012)Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common, chronic, and associated with greater risk of postoperative mortality in veterans. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation was to determine if elective outpatient surgery ... -
The Use of Task-Sharing to Improve Treatment Engagement in an Online Mindfulness Intervention for Stress among Chinese College Students
(2018)Traditional in-person psychotherapies are proving incapable of addressing mental health needs globally. Computer-based interventions are one promising solution to closing the large gap between mental health treatment need ... -
Understanding Our Own Biology: The Relevance of Auto-biological Knowledge for Mental Health
(2017)As knowledge of the neurobiological basis of psychopathology has advanced, public perceptions have shifted towards conceptualizing mental disorders as disorders of biology. However, little is known about how people respond ...
