Background: Depression is characterized by persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding enjoyable activities. It very important to identify the factors predisposing depression among paramedical students. The main objective this study was assess prevalence associated with Methods: A cross-sectional done all 208 students studying MES using predesigned questionnair...

Cardiac vagal tone, as indexed by abnormalities in the level and/or reactivity of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), has been related to psychiatric impairment, including risk for depression. Longitudinal studies of depression have focused on RSA levels and have found mixed support for the hypothesis that low RSA levels predict a more pernicious course of depression. The current investigation ...

BACKGROUND Depression is currently underdiagnosed among older adults. As part of the Novel Assessment of Nutrition and Aging (NANA) validation study, 40 older adults self-reported their mood using a touchscreen computer over three, one-week periods. Here, we demonstrate the potential of these data to predict future depression status. METHODS We analysed data from the NANA validation study usi...

General measures of self-rated health are collected routinely in national health surveys and widely used in the analyses of determinants of health and health care utilization. However, these subjective assessments can be influenced by health expectations (contextualized beliefs about health) that may vary systematically across individuals and be associated with their socio-demographic character...

Introduction COMP360 is a synthetic, proprietary, purified form of psilocybin in development for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) with FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation. In recent phase IIb study, 25mg was superior to 1mg on change from baseline (CFB) Week 3 the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) total score (primary efficacy endpoint), when administered alongside psycholo...

Depression is a very common phenomenon. Most of us have experienced some transitory period when we have felt sad and worried; during studying, sleeping and eating patterns have been disturbed. Depression is the foremost mental health problems round the globe. It is basically a disorder of mood or feeling. When depression is severe, persistent and disabling of everyday physical and social functi...