Search results for "depression."

Emotions in motion: Short-term group form Dance/Movement Therapy in the treatment of depression: A pilot study

2014

Abstract Depression is a highly prevalent mood disorder that impairs a person's social skills and quality of life. Depressed patients have been shown to have difficulty in identifying, expressing, and regulating emotions, especially negative emotions, such as anger. Here, we present a study that investigates using body- and movement-based therapy intervention in the treatment of depression. Central to this study is the use of a short-term group form of Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) intervention. The main research question was whether a short-term group form of DMT intervention could decrease the symptoms of depression and anxiety. Depressed participants ( N  = 21, aged 18–60 years) received …

Facial geometry and speech analysis for depression detection.

2017

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders, burdening many people world-wide. A system with the potential of serving as a decision support system is proposed, based on novel features extracted from facial expression geometry and speech, by interpreting non-verbal manifestations of depression. The proposed system has been tested both in gender independent and gender based modes, and with different fusion methods. The algorithms were evaluated for several combinations of parameters and classification schemes, on the dataset provided by the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge of 2013 and 2014. The proposed framework achieved a precision of 94.8% for detecting persons achieving high sc…

Induced Dipoles and Possible Modulation of Wireless Effects in Implanted Electrodes. Effects of Implanting Insulated Electrodes on an Animal Test to …

2021

There is evidence that Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) produces health benefits in patients even before initiating stimulation. Furthermore, DBS electrode insertion in rat infralimbic cortex (ILC) provokes antidepressant-like effects before stimulation, due to local inflammation and astrogliosis. Consequently, a significant effect of implanting electrodes is suspected. External fields, similar in magnitude to the brain’s endogenous fields, induce electric dipoles in conducting materials, in turn influencing neural cell growth through wireless effects. To elucidate if such dipoles influence depressive-like behavior, without external stimulation, the comparative effect of conducting and insulate…

Self-criticism, dependency, and borderline adolescents’ externalizing and internalizing problems

2014

Childhood depression: A descriptive study on a group of children/students in Palermo

2004

An investigation was carried out on a group of students, 7-10 years old, aimed to evidence the presence of same of common symptoms of depression in childhood. Results reported demonstrated that more than 50% of the sample was often sad, nervous, anxious and suffers of sleeping disorders. The need was stressed of on early and correct diagnosis of infantile depression to sustain the child’s development and to give adequate treatment.

The prevalence of depression and anxiety among medical field and non-medical field students in Latvia and Finland

2021

Ievads: COVID-19 pandēmijai ir nopietnas fiziskas un psiholoģiskas sekas. Vispārējās populācijas vidū arī universitātes studenti, šķiet, ir pakļauti garīgās veselības jautājumu ietekmei. Mērķis: Šī pētījuma mērķis ir novērtēt depresijas un trauksmes izplatību medicīnas un nemedicīnas studentu vidū Latvijā un Somijā COVID-19 pandēmijas laikā, un salīdzināt šīs valstis. Metodoloģija: šajā šķērsgriezuma pētījuma tika apkopoti uz aptauju balstītie dati, kā arī trauksmes (Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale-7 jeb GAD-7) un depresijas (The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 jeb PHQ-9) skrīninga anketu dati. Aptauja tika veikta no 2021. gada 29. janvāra līdz 2021. gada 28. februārim. Rezultāts: aptauju…

[Pharmacological treatment of depression after acute myocardial infarction].

2005

Depressed mood and other depressive symptoms frequently appear after acute myocardial infarction and it is known how these patients have an increased risk for morbidity and mortality compared to patients without depression. Many risk factors promote the development of clinical depression in patients with recent myocardial infarction. Although a large number of studies underline the negative prognostic impact of depression on the infarcted patient, only rarely depressed patients are appropriately diagnosed and treated. Furthermore it should be borne in mind that the use of psychotropics in medically ill patients requires attention. These compounds, in fact, may interact with the disease caus…

Détection automatique des repères visuels associés à la dépression

2018

Depression is the most prevalent mood disorder worldwide having a significant impact on well-being and functionality, and important personal, family and societal effects. The early and accurate detection of signs related to depression could have many benefits for both clinicians and affected individuals. The present work aimed at developing and clinically testing a methodology able to detect visual signs of depression and support clinician decisions.Several analysis pipelines were implemented, focusing on motion representation algorithms, including Local Curvelet Binary Patterns-Three Orthogonal Planes (LCBP-TOP), Local Curvelet Binary Patterns- Pairwise Orthogonal Planes (LCBP-POP), Landma…

Propiedades psicométricas y estructura de los factores de la escala de Satisfacción con la Vida en una muestra de estudiantes mayores portugueses jub…

2018

Abstract The main purpose of this study is to analyse the psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) in a 363 retirees students sample from several Portuguese universities. The 70% were female (253) and 30% were male (110) with an average age of 67 years (SD = 7.59) and a range from 48 to 90 years. R Commander was used for Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Amos 18.0 module for Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). One factor solution was the best-fitting model. The internal consistency of the SWLS was .777. Correlational analysis showed negative relationships with loneliness (UCLA Scale) and symptoms of depression (GDS-15), supporting concurrent validity. The SWLS …

A questionable diagnosis in a woman with drowsiness

2019

A 60-year-old caucasian woman was admitted to our Division of Internal Medicine for a 10-day history of drowsiness, irritability, dysphasia, weakness and difficulties in the maintenance of an upright position with numerous falls, with a traumatic lumbar spine injury and on the left shoulder. Then, while general clinical conditions were getting worse with drowsiness and hyposthenia of the right side of the body, after neurological evaluation, she was recovered in hospital. Pathological history includes a 20-year epilepsy and depression with emotional lability, behavior’s disorders and attempted suicide. For such reason, she was followed in a mental health institute, treated with phenobarbita…