This article briefly describes the fundamental principles and some of the clinical applications of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), a time-limited, empirically validated treatment for mood disorders. IPT has been tested with general success in a series of clinical trials for mood and, increasingly, non-mood disorders; as both an acute and maintenance treatment; and in differing treatment form...

One principle which recent work in social psychology has continued to emphasize is that behavior is goal-directed (cf. Gollwitzer & Bargh, 1996). Given that moods and emotions powerfully influence so many different aspects ofour lives, it is no surprise that affect regulation is an important goal. Our basic assumption throughout this literature has been that people are motivated to feel good, s...

background: cardiovascular diseases have the highest death rates in human society. coronary artery disease is among the most important of these diseases. no treatment of cardiovascular disease has as much impact on the quality of life of the patients as the heart surgery. the recovery from heart surgery is associated with symptoms of pain and psychological distress. in the early recovery period...

OBJECTIVE Seasonal changes in mood and behavior are common in a general population, being of relevance to public health. We wanted to analyze whether the HRQoL is associated with the seasonal changes in mood and behavior. Because the shortage of exposure to daylight or artificial bright light has been linked to the occurrence of the seasonal changes, we wanted to know whether illumination indoo...

The effects of attributions for success on the alleviation of mood and performance deficits of clinically depressed inpatients were investigated. Depressed patients were randomly assigned to either an acutely depressed group or an improved depressed group that was exposed to a learned helplessness induction procedure. All subjects received 80% positive feedback on a task allegedly measuring soc...

s / Brain Stimulation 10 (2017) e46ee83 e59 features such as irritability and anxiousness as part of general participation in the study. Future studies will utilize neuroimaging to confirm targeted engagement of the DLFPC in order to enhance changes in mood with tDCS in MS participants. We will also characterize changes in mood in participants with clinically significant mood problems at baseli...

BACKGROUND A general internist has an important role in primary care, especially for the elderly in rural areas of Japan. Although effective intervention models for depressed patients in general practice and primary care settings have been developed in the US and UK medical systems, there is little information regarding even the recognition rate and prescription rate of psychotropic medication ...

As an effort to detect the mood of a blog, regardless of the length and writing style, we propose a hybrid approach to detecting blog text’s mood, which incorporates commonsense knowledge obtained from the general public (ConceptNet) and the Affective Norms English Words (ANEW) list. Our approach picks up blog text’s unique features and compute simple statistics such as term frequency, n-gram, ...