a Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Psychopharmacology Program, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. , and b International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, Mass. , USA; c Department of Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires , Argentina; d Lucio Bino Mood Disorders Cente...

a Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Psychopharmacology Program, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. , and b International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, Mass. , USA; c Department of Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires , Argentina; d Lucio Bino Mood Disorders Cente...

BACKGROUND Emotional eating is associated with overeating and the development of obesity. Yet, empirical evidence for individual (trait) differences in emotional eating and cognitive mechanisms that contribute to eating during sad mood remain equivocal. AIM The aim of this study was to test if attention bias for food moderates the effect of self-reported emotional eating during sad mood (vs n...

Anna Brytek-Matera: Health Psychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University Paul Verlaine-Metz, Institute of Psychology, Chair of General Psychology, University of Silesia; Correspondence address: Anna Brytek-Matera University of Silesia, Institute of Psychology – Chair of General Psychology 53 Grażyńskiego Str. 40-126 Katowice, Poland; E-mail: abrytek@ us.edu.pl Mood and emotional s...

BACKGROUND Mood disorders affect a significant portion of the general population. Cycling mood disorders are characterized by intermittent episodes (or events) of the disease. OBJECTIVE Using anonymized Web search logs, we identify a population of people with significant interest in mood stabilizing drugs (MSD) and seek evidence of mood swings in this population. METHODS We extracted querie...

Poor mental health and substance use are associated with food insecurity, however, their potential combined effects have not been studied. This study explored independent associations and effect modification between lifetime substance use and mood disorder in relation to food insecurity. Poisson regression analysis of data from British Columbia respondents (n = 13,450; 12 years+) in the 2007/08...

Curran HV, Collins R, Fletcher S, et al. Older adults and withdrawal from benzodiazepine hypnotics in general practice: effects on cognitive function, sleep, mood and quality of life. Psychol Med 2003;33:1223–37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

This contribution describes the current state-of-the-art of the scientific literature regarding the self-soothing effects of crying. Starting from the general hypothesis that crying is a self-soothing behavior, we consider different mechanisms through which these effects may appear. In the first section, we briefly explain the main functions of human crying. Then we define self-soothing in term...

Individuals with psychoses show excess mortality, which is a major public health concern. This study examined all-cause and suicide mortality rates in Korean patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, mood disorder, or mental and behavioral disorder due to psychoactive substance use and to compare this with that of the general population. Data were from the National Health Insurance cohort, 2002 to...

Depression commonly is comorbid with epilepsy and, of the depressive disorders, major depression is most common. Depression is often comorbid with an anxiety disorder (eg, generalized anxiety, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, or obsessive-compulsive disorder), in the general public and in persons with epilepsy (PWE). This discussion will focus on mood disorders in ...