Sentences with phrase «negative mood symptoms»

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«Symptoms of this desynchronization include fatigue, difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, indigestion, and a negative mood.»

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

Also, weakened connectivity during abstinence was linked with increases in smoking urges, negative mood, and withdrawal symptoms, suggesting that this weaker internetwork connectivity may make it more difficult for people to quit.

There has long been a belief that a major reason for the high prevalence of smoking in people with psychiatric disorders is that nicotine helps with psychiatric symptoms — by improving negative mood and anxiety, for example.

So far what I've found is that smokers with elevated depression symptoms who switch to very low nicotine cigarettes do not experience increases in negative mood — in fact, their symptoms improve.

Negative ions are considered «healthier» and studies show they contribute to improved mood and concentration, increased energy and reduced allergy and asthma symptoms.)

Consider some symptoms of low testosterone that can lead to the negative lifestyle choices I mentioned above — men with low testosterone often suffer from fatigue, anxiety, and mild depression (we often refer to this as low mood).

It helps you avoid the negative symptoms that come with long - term carbohydrate restriction, like a suppression of immune function and changes in mood.

Because of this, it's not uncommon for andropausal men to exhibit classic symptoms of reduced * testosterone, including mood swings, negative emotional well - being, reduce * muscle mass and reduced * sex drive.

In fact, the first symptom I get of a gut bacterial imbalance is my mood starts to get negative (without a reason) and stress gets to me more than usual.

In particular, they had lower levels of depressive symptoms, self - hostility, somatization, negative mood, negative coping approaches, and posttraumatic symptoms.

Symptoms of PTSD can include, but are not limited to: intruding thoughts and memories associated with the traumatic event itself, nightmares, flashbacks, somatic responses when in the presences of trauma - related stimuli, avoidant behaviors (especially of trauma - related stimuli), and an overall negative mood, affect, and thought content (American Psychiatric Association, 2013: pp. 271 - 280).

Moreover, there were trends for differences between the 2 groups, with COPE mothers reporting 1) less total stress after transfer to the general pediatric unit, 2) less stress regarding their children's medical procedures and their children's behaviors and emotions, 3) less negative mood and depression 1 month after hospitalization, 4) fewer PTSD symptoms 6 months after hospitalization, and 5) less depression among their children 12 months after discharge, compared with control mothers.

In comparison with control mothers, COPE mothers reported less negative mood state, less depression, and fewer PTSD symptoms at certain follow - up assessments after hospitalization.

PTSD is a severe psychiatric illness characterised by four core symptom clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood and hyperarousal.1 With an estimated lifetime prevalence in community samples of up to 8 %, PTSD results in a great deal of personal suffering and escalating social and economic costs.2 Unfortunately, current evidence - based treatments for PTSD leave a high percentage with a significant symptom burden, highlighting the urgent need for novel treatments.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

The role of the self - concept in the relationship of menstrual symptom attitudes and negative mood

Oppositional defiant disorder shares with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder the symptoms of chronic negative mood and temper outbursts.

In other words, older adults who are able to rapidly end negative moods may be unique from their age peers as well as from younger adults in having especially low levels of trait anxiety, depressive symptoms, neuroticism, and pessimism and higher levels of optimism.

For some people that vulnerability seemed to trigger a resurgence of ways of looking at themselves — judging, evaluating, being very harsh and critical — that could bring back a more negative mood and other symptoms.

«The actual symptoms in terms of intrusions, avoidance, arousal problems, and negative alterations to mood or thinking are very similar across people suffering from PTSD and people suffering from vicarious trauma - type symptoms,» she says.

Cancer - specific stress at baseline was examined as a predictor of psychological (cognitive - affective depressive symptoms, negative mood, mental health quality of life) and physical functioning (fatigue interference, sleep problems, physical health quality of life), controlling for demographic and treatment variables.

Cross-sectional and prospective multilevel analyses demonstrated that increases in forgiveness (measured as fluctuations in individuals» avoidance, revenge, and benevolence motivations toward their transgressors) were related to within - persons increases in psychological well - being (measured as more satisfaction with life, more positive mood, less negative mood, and fewer physical symptoms).

Indeed, greater intra-individual fluctuations in negative affect, conceptualized as dysregulated mood, predict increased risk for adolescent substance use at the daily level [31] and also predict growth in drug use over time [32], as well as more significant symptoms of impairment [33].

Negative reinforcement models of substance use posit that the use of drugs serves to regulate emotion by removing the stimulus responsible for the experience of negative affect (and symptoms of withdrawal with increasingly severe SUDs), thus further reinforcing subsequent use of drugs over time [73, 74, 75].3 Substance use may thus serve as a means of coping with the increased negative affect and dysregulated mood related specifically to internalizing and externalizing disorders [e.Negative reinforcement models of substance use posit that the use of drugs serves to regulate emotion by removing the stimulus responsible for the experience of negative affect (and symptoms of withdrawal with increasingly severe SUDs), thus further reinforcing subsequent use of drugs over time [73, 74, 75].3 Substance use may thus serve as a means of coping with the increased negative affect and dysregulated mood related specifically to internalizing and externalizing disorders [e.negative affect (and symptoms of withdrawal with increasingly severe SUDs), thus further reinforcing subsequent use of drugs over time [73, 74, 75].3 Substance use may thus serve as a means of coping with the increased negative affect and dysregulated mood related specifically to internalizing and externalizing disorders [e.negative affect and dysregulated mood related specifically to internalizing and externalizing disorders [e.g., 78].

Furthermore, to date research on the effects of parental psychological problems on emotion socialization focused mainly on parents» internalizing symptoms, such as depressed mood and (to a lesser extent) anxiety, while little attention has been given to the potential negative consequences of parents» externalizing symptoms like outbursts of anger and impulsive behavior.

Researchers have documented a cascade of negative life events for the service member whose combat - related stress and post-traumatic symptoms may affect sleep patterns, mood, arousal level, irritability, and ability to tolerate daily domestic transactions, and for the spouse who may be similarly symptomatic or hyper - reactive due to the «pile up» of stressors experienced on the «home front» over extended and multiple deployments (Galovski and Lyons 2004; Lester et al. 2010, 2011a; Sherman et al. 2005).

For example, daily negative mood has been found to predict depressive symptoms (Cohen, Gunthert, Butler, O'Neill, & Tolpin, 2005), whereas daily positive mood has been found to buffer the effects of daily stress on depression (Wichers et al., 2007) and to predict «human flourishing» (Fredrickson & Losada, 2005).