The highest risk of depression is after a manic episode. After being high and feeling on top of the world, the plummet into depression is especially disorienting and risky. Bipolar depression has a high suicide rate, with 25-60% of individuals with bipolar disorder attempting suicide at...
Hypomanic episode in unipolar depres- sion during transcranial direct current stimulation. Acta Neuropsychiatr 2010;22: 316-8.Baccaro A, Brunoni AR, Bensenor IM, Fregni F. Hypomanic episode in unipolar depression during transcranial direct current stimulation. Acta Neuropsychiatr 2010;22:316-18....
Similarly, after reviewing the relevant literature, Antonuccio and Healy (2012) identified a marked disjunction between the use of the term antidepressant and the actual effects of drugs that carry that label. They argued that to justify the label antidepressant a drug should be superior to placebo...
You can’t ever have had a manic or hypomanic episode. The symptoms must not be due to the presence of another condition on the schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic disorders.Additional Types of DepressionAside from major depressive disorder, there are several other classifications for depressi...
A cross-diagnostic, post-hoc analysis of the BRIDGE-II-MIX study was performed to investigate how unipolar and bipolar patients suffering from an acute major depressive episode (MDE) cluster according to severity and duration. Duration of index episode, Clinical Global Impression-Bipolar Version-Depr...
Impact of antidepressant discontinuation after acute bipolar depression remission on rates of depressive relapse at 1-year follow-up. OBJECTIVE: While guidelines for treating patients with bipolar depression recommend discontinuing antidepressants within 6 months after remission, few stud... L Altshuler,T...
C. There has never been a manic episode or hypomanic episode Melancholic depressionEndogenous depression Characterized by pervasive sadness, hopelessness, loss of interest in activities, and physical symptoms, eg weight loss, sleep problems; in MD, there may be an ↑ 'threshold' that requires littl...
mean±s.e.m. (e) Effect of lithium treatment on episode frequency. There was a significant group × period interaction (P<0.05). The episode tended to be more frequent after the termination of the treatment (Group A in Period 2) than the other group during treatment (Group B in Period...
It has also been suggested that a sedentiary lifestyle with little exercise can contribute to depression. Finally, aging people may become depressed after the death of a partner or loved one. Depression in primary careThere is an increasing emphasis on the early diagnosis of clinical depression ...
mean±s.e.m. (e) Effect of lithium treatment on episode frequency. There was a significant group × period interaction (P<0.05). The episode tended to be more frequent after the termination of the treatment (Group A in Period 2) than the other group during treatment (Group B in Period...