Depression is a psychological condition characterized by persistent feeling of sadness, hopelessness, emptiness, and despair, which affects an individual's emotional state, thoughts, behavior. This research aims to determine the extent depression experienced students during post-pandemic while completing their final assignments. The study utilizes Mixed Method Research (MMR) approach with Seque...

OBJECTIVE Current descriptions in psychiatry and psychology suggest that depressed mood in clinical depression is similar to mild sadness experienced in everyday life, but more intense and persistent. We evaluated this concept using measures of average mood and mood instability (MI). METHOD We prospectively measured low and high moods using separate visual analog scales twice a day for seven ...

BACKGROUND Subthreshold depressive disorders (minor and subthrehold depression) have been defined in a wide range of forms, varying on the number of symptoms and duration required. Disability associated with these conditions has also been reported. Our aim was to review the different definitions and to determine factors associated with these conditions in order to clarify the nosological implic...

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Phantom eye pain (PEP) is a major clinical problem after removal with no standard treatment protocol to date. As multidimensional experience associated emotional and cognitive components, this study aimed explore the possible neuropsychological mechanisms of PEP in perspective cognition, order provide basis for treatment. Visual oddball event-related potentials (ERPs) under different external s...

The selected theories are based on studies investigating the possible role of stress hormones and cytokine; gammaaminobutyric acid (GABA); glutamate; monoaminergic transmitters such as serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine; omega-3 fatty acid; Tcell; β-endorphine; synaptic plasticity; endocrine system and endocannabinoids in the pathophysiology of depression. Because all theories of depression ap...

Depression, diminished positive affect, and exaggerated negative affect have all been linked to right frontal cortical asymmetry as measured by electroencephalography (EEG). Emerging evidence, however, suggests that right frontal EEG asymmetry might be linked to empathic responding. EEG was used to assess baseline asymmetries in frontal brain activity. Participants viewed images associated with...

Major depressive disorder aggregates within families, although the mechanisms of transfer across generations are not well understood. In light of converging biological and behavioral evidence that depressive symptoms are associated with impaired reward processing, we examined whether adolescent girls with a parental history of depression would also exhibit abnormal reward sensitivity. We perfor...

Complicated grief (CG) is a syndrome that affects 10% to 20% of grievers regardless of age, although proportionally more will face the death of loved ones in late life, CG is characterized by preoccupying and disabling symptoms that can persist for decades such as an inability to accept the death, intense yearning or avoidance, frequent reveries, deep sadness, crying, somatic distress, social w...

We investigated the association between excessive video game/Internet use and teen suicidality. Data were obtained from the 2007 and 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), a high school-based, nationally representative survey (N = 14,041 and N = 16,410, respectively). Teens who reported 5 hours or more of video games/Internet daily use, in the 2009 YRBS, had a significantly higher risk for sad...