Depressed Mood After Stroke

Early depressed mood after stroke predicts long-term disability: the Northern Manhattan Stroke Study (NOMASS).

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Depression is highly prevalent after stroke and may influence recovery. We aimed to determine whether depressed mood acutely after stroke predicts subsequent disability and mortality. METHODS As part of the Northern Manhattan Stroke Study, a population-based incident stroke case follow-up study performed in a multiethnic urban population, participants were asked about d...

Cohort study of depressed mood during pregnancy and after childbirth.

OBJECTIVE To follow mothers' mood through pregnancy and after childbirth and compare reported symptoms of depression at each stage. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Avon. PARTICIPANTS Pregnant women resident within Avon with an expected date of delivery between 1 April 1991 and 31 December 1992. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Symptom scores from the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale ...

Reading problems and depressed mood.

Although reading difficulties show well-established overlaps with disruptive behavior disorders in childhood, much less is known about reading-disabled children's vulnerability to emotional difficulties. Using longitudinal data from 6 assessments of boys in the Pittsburgh Youth Study, we found robust links between severe, persistent reading problems and increased risk for depressed mood in a co...

Global and Local Attention Processing in Depressed Mood

Background: Attention impairments are the hallmark feature of subclinical depression. The present study used Navon task to compare the allocation of attention to the local and global stimuli in depressed and nondepressed participants. Method: The primary sample included 186 female high school students from Shiraz city who were selected using cluster sampl...

Stress Reactivity and Depressed Mood 1 Stress Reactivity and Vulnerability to Depressed Mood in College Students