Browsing by Subject "mood disorders"

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    • BDNF and BMI effects on brain structures of bipolar offspring: results from the global mood and brain science initiative 

      Mansur, R. B.; Brietzke, E. [UNIFESP]; McIntyre, R. S.; Cao, B.; Lee, Y.; Japiassu, L.; Chen, K.; Lu, R.; Lu, W.; Li, T.; Xu, G.; Lin, K. (Wiley, 2017)
      Objective: To compare brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels between offspring of individuals with bipolar disorders (BD) and healthy controls (HCs) and investigate the effects of BDNF levels and body mass index ...

    • Co-occurrence of chronic physical pain and psychiatric morbidity in a community sample of older people 

      Blay, Sergio Luis; Andreoli, Sergio Baxter; Dewey, Michael E.; Gastal, Fabio Leite (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007-09-01)
      Background Knowledge about co-occurrence of the most frequent chronic pain symptoms with psychiatric morbidity in older people is very limited. Objective To study the association of psychiatric morbidity and painful physical ...

    • Conceito e diagnóstico 

      Porto, Jose Alberto Del [UNIFESP] (Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria - ABP, 1999-05-01)
      This paper reviews the concept of depression and the contemporary nosology of depressive states with their different subtypes. Course (acute vs chronic depressions, seasonal pattern) and phenomenological characteristics ...

    • Cross-sectional study of abnormal amygdala development in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder 

      Chen, B. K.; Sassi, R.; Axelson, D.; Hatch, J. P.; Sanches, M.; Nicoletti, M.; Brambilla, P.; Keshavan, M. S.; Ryan, N. D.; Birmaher, B.; Soares, J. C. (Elsevier B.V., 2004-09-15)
      Background: in vivo imaging studies in adult bipolarpatients have suggested enlargement of the amygdala. It is not known whether this abnormality is already present early in the illness course or whether it develops later ...

    • Developmental abnormalities in striatum in young bipolar patients: a preliminary study 

      Sanches, Marsal [UNIFESP]; Roberts, R. L.; Sassi, R. B.; Axelson, D.; Nicoletti, M.; Brambilla, P.; Hatch, J. P.; Keshavan, M. S.; Ryan, N. D.; Birmaher, B.; Soares, J. C. (Blackwell Munksgaard, 2005-04-01)
      Objectives: Anatomical abnormalities in the basal ganglia of adult mood disorder patients have been reported. To investigate whether these abnormalities are present early in illness course, we compared the volume of striatal ...

    • Fronto-limbic brain structures in suicidal and non-suicidal female patients with major depressive disorder 

      Monkul, E. S.; Hatch, J. P.; Nicoletti, M. A.; Spence, S.; Brambilla, P.; Lacerda, Acioly Luiz Tavares de [UNIFESP]; Sassi, R. B.; Mallinger, A. G.; Keshavan, M. S.; Soares, J. C. (Nature Publishing Group, 2007-04-01)
      Our knowledge about the neurobiology of suicide is limited. It has been proposed that suicidal behavior generally requires biological abnormalities concomitant with the personality trait of impulsivity/aggression, besides ...

    • Healthy maternal bonding as a resilience factor for depressive disorder 

      Miranda, Agnes M. [UNIFESP]; Soares, Claudio N.; Moraes, Maira L. [UNIFESP]; Fossaluza, Victor; Serafim, Paula M. [UNIFESP]; Mello, Marcelo Feijó de [UNIFESP] (Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade de BrasíliaUniversidade de São Paulo, 2012-06-01)
      INTRODUCTION: Depressive disorders (DDs) are very prevalent disorders particularly in women, a high-risk gender group. Determining the risk and protective factors associated with the development of DDs is fundamental to ...

    • História da caracterização nosológica do transtorno bipolar 

      Porto, Jose Alberto Del [UNIFESP]; Del-Porto, Kátia Oddone [UNIFESP] (Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 2005-01-01)
      The authors review briefly the history of bipolar disorder from Araeteus of Cappadocia to our times. The modern concept of bipolar disorder was built in France, through the work of Falret (1851) and Baillarger (1854). The ...

    • Interleukin-6 and verbal, memory in recurrent major depressive disorder 

      Grassi-Oliveira, Rodrigo; Bauer, Moises Evandro; Pezzi, Julio Carlos; Teixeira, Antonio Lucio; Brietzke, Elisa [UNIFESP] (Maghira & Maas Publications, 2011-01-01)
      OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the possible association between peripheral levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) with immediate and delayed verbal recall in a group of recurrent depressed ...

    • The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in psychiatric disorders: an update of neuroimaging findings 

      Jackowski, Andrea Parolin [UNIFESP]; Araujo Filho, Gerardo Maria de [UNIFESP]; Almeida, Amanda Cristina Galvão Oliveira de [UNIFESP]; Araújo, Célia Maria de [UNIFESP]; Reis, Marília [UNIFESP]; Nery, Fabiana [UNIFESP]; Batista, Ilza Rosa [UNIFESP]; Silva, Ivaldo da [UNIFESP]; Lacerda, Acioly Luiz Tavares de [UNIFESP] (Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria - ABP, 2012-06-01)
      OBJECTIVE: To report structural and functional neuroimaging studies exploring the potential role of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in the pathophysiology of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders (PD). METHOD: A ...