Sentences with phrase «risk of affective disorders»

For instance, greater vigilance to negative information may make one hesitant to express their thoughts and feelings in social contexts or behave in an assertive manner, making it difficult to form and maintain meaningful social relationships in individualistic societies, a social behaviour critical to reducing the risk of affective disorders for genetically susceptible individuals.

Major depression in childhood or adolescence increases the risk of affective disorder in adulthood.

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Postpartum affective disorder (AD), including postpartum depression (PPD), affects more than one in two hundred women with no history of prior psychiatric episodes, and raises the risk of later affective disorder for those women, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine by Marie - Louise Rasmussen from Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, and colleagues.

have found that good levels of vitamin D are associated with a lessened risk for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and depression.

Studies have found that good levels of vitamin D are associated with a lessened risk for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and depression.

In the general population, the most frequent of these is the combination of alcohol use disorder and depression and / or anxiety disorder.5 — 7 Comorbidity of alcohol abuse and dependence is two to three times higher for those who suffer from depression than for those in the general population.8 Moreover, risky alcohol use is associated with a higher probability of developing affective disorders than for not at - risk users.9

Community approaches, such as home visitation, have been shown to be highly successful in changing the behavior of parents at risk for perpetrating maltreatment.18 Targeted programs for mothers with affective disorders and substance abuse have also been shown to be useful in preventing psychological maltreatment.19, 20

Patients with psychiatric disorders, particularly affective disorders, had an increased risk of developing dementia

The areas of focus include: primary risk factors (affective disorders, previous suicide attempts, hopelessness); secondary risk factors (substance abuse, personality disorders); situational risk factors (family functioning, social relationships, exposure to suicide, life stressors, sexual orientation); and protective factors or strengths (individual, family, social, and community resources).

The depressed group was at an increased risk for affective disorder in adult life and had elevated risks of psychiatric hospitalization and psychiatric treatment.

Risk of dementia in people with depressive and bipolar disorders increases with increasing number of prior affective episodes

Possibly, mania is a more purely biologically driven phenomenon than bipolar depression, with onsets more readily attributable to medication inconsistency, sleep deprivation, circadian disruption, or behavioral activation.21,22,84 - 86 In contrast, social and familial support has been found to protect against depression in bipolar and unipolar affective disorders, but the role of these variables in manic recurrences is unclear.86 - 88 An analysis of laboratory interactional data from a subset of 44 families in this sample revealed that treatment - related improvements in family communication skills were more closely associated with reductions in patients» depressive than manic symptoms.56 Thus, manic and depressive symptoms may be influenced by different constellations of risk and protective factors.

Based on the literature in older children, it was hypothesized that preschoolers with a greater family history of affective disorders, who experienced more stressful life events, or who had greater comorbidity would be at an increased risk for recurrent and more severe depressive episodes during a 24 - month period.

While other risk factors for later MDD were found, early MDD itself and family history of affective disorder were the most powerful risk factors for later MDD.

Preschool MDD as well as family history of affective disorders emerged as the most robust predictors of later MDD compared with other risk factors considered simultaneously in the model.

Patients were excluded if they (a) were currently receiving psychotherapy or antidepressant drugs (unless they had been taking the same dose for at least three months without improvement); (b) were unwilling to accept randomisation or were unavailable for follow up; (c) met criteria for severe depression (melancholia) or had a history of bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, or substance misuse (as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised (DSM - III - R) 18); or (d) were at significant risk of suicide or in need of urgent psychiatric treatment.

Several studies of inpatients have noted that depressed individuals are significantly less likely to be violent than individuals with other types of disorders.8 - 10, 23 Moreover, affective disorders were not found to be related to an increased risk for homicide in a Finnish cohort study.15 By contrast, other studies have found a relationship between affective disorders and homicide, 24 self - reported violent behavior, 2 and conduct disorder in childhood and adolescence.25 One possible explanation for these conflicting results could be the potential moderating role of alcohol abuse in this relationship.

Children of parents with bipolar disorder: A population at high risk for major affective disorders

Social influences of early developing biological and behavioral systems related to risk for affective disorder

The impact of high neuroticism in parents on children's psychosocial functioning in a population at high risk for major affective disorder: A family — environmental pathway of intergenerational risk