Browsing by Subject "depression"
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(2022-03-16)Department: Human GeneticsDepression is a common psychiatric disorder characterized by decreased mood, anhedonia, irritability, or suicidal thoughts. In the clinic, laboratory testing provides physicians with targeted biochemical measurements, ...
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(2015-07-24)Department: PsychologyDevelopment of prevention programs is essential in areas of high health and cost impact on society, and although many programs are able to demonstrate efficacy under idealistic conditions, these effects often diminish as ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)The present study examined the concurrent associations among executive functioning, coping, maternal depression history, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The sample included 82 adolescents between the ages of 12 and ...
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(2023-06-01)Department: PsychologyElucidating disorder- and domain-specific deficits within psychiatric and medically ill populations is a primary focus in the field of neuropsychology. Comparing overlapping and distinct patterns of cognitive functioning ...
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(2004-06-09)Department: SociologyDrawing from the previous studies, I distinguish three components of social integration, including network integration (size, density, centrality), behavioral integration (frequency of interaction), and affective/cognitive ...
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(2015-07-27)Department: Nursing ScienceHealth related stigma (HRS) is a poorly understood phenomenon in patients with advanced lung cancer. Approximately 30% of patients with lung cancer, regardless of smoking status, report feeling stigmatized due to their ...
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(2005-07-12)Department: NeuroscienceThis dissertation describes pharmacological studies of the functional consequences of the Cys23Ser single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in two different edited versions of the human 5-HT2C receptor as well as evaluation ...
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(2016-06-29)Department: EpidemiologyThis dissertation explored the effects of depression and anxiety on antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and adherence among newly diagnosed HIV-infected Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM). First, I conducted a ...
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(2011-04-02)Department: PsychologyProspective relations of physical and relational peer victimization to positive and negative self-cognitions were examined in a one-year, two-wave longitudinal study. Self-reports of cognitions and both peer nomination and ...
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(2011-07-24)Department: PsychologyAlthough inappropriate or excessive guilt is a symptom of depression, no measures exist that directly and effectively assess the construct. A wide range of measures assess guilt but there are inconsistencies in how guilt ...
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(2016-10-20)Department: NeuroscienceThe immune system and brain are intricately intertwined in both development and adult function. Unfortunately, this relationship can lead to dysfunction when balance in either system is disturbed. Inflammation does not ...
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(2011-03-18)Department: Nursing SciencePurpose. The purpose of this dissertation research study was to investigate the associations among learned helplessness, depressive symptoms, and targeted demographic, clinical, and psychosocial factors in individuals who ...
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(2010-03-30)Department: PsychologyThe study presented in this thesis was designed to determine the longitudinal relations between targeted peer victimization and depression among US children. Several aspects and characteristics of peer victimization, and ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation addresses the philosophical problems of meaning and identity in the context of major depression. I provide a phenomenological account of the depressive’s intrapsychic and intersubjective life that is ...
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(2015-07-14)Department: PsychologyThe current study examined correlates of child negative cognitive style in a sample of 115 children and adolescents (age 9 to 15-years-old) and their mothers with varied depression histories. The present study also developed ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: PsychologyAlterations in neurophysiological responses to reward are associated with depressive symptoms, particularly in combination with stress. Rejection sensitivity is also a known precursor to depression. Neural responses to ...
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(2018-01-18)Department: PsychologyChildren and adolescents of depressed parents are at increased risk for psychopathology compared to children of parents without a history of depression. Two powerful source of risk for internalizing and externalizing ...
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(2009-03-30)Department: PsychologyPrevious research has shown that both having a parent with depression and economic disadvantage are chronically stressful and lead to poorer outcomes in children and adolescents, but these stressors have never been studied ...