Depression
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Jay M. Pomerantz (2005). Screening for Depression in Primary Care, Behavioral Health Matters, Medscape article posted 09/07/2005; attributed to Drug Trend Benefits (requires free registration to log in).
L. Turner-Stokes, et al. (2005). The Depression Intensity Scale Circles (DISCs): a first evaluation of a simple assessment tool for depression in the context of brain injury, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 76:1273-1278.
US Preventive Services Task Force (2002). Screening for depression, Vol. 1, No. 2. Index page to the full online edition of The Internet Journal of Mental Health.
US Preventive Services Task Force (2005). Screening for suicide risk, Vol. 1, No. 2. Index page to the full online edition of The Internet Journal of Mental Health.
Treatment Guidelines:
American Psychiatric Association (2000). Practice Guidance for the Treatment of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, 2d Ed., 97 pp. Full text: cache PDF.
Articles:
Stewart Page (1999) Current Research in Social Psychology, 4:5, June 17, 1999. Index page to the full online edition of Current Research In Social Psychology free.
Graham Martin (2005). Opinion: Suicide and gambling, Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health 4:1, May 2005. Index page to the full online journal free.
Ronald Pies & Donald Rogers (2005). The Recognition and Treatment of Depression: A Review for the Primary Care Clinician, Medscape CME/CE activity, released Sept. 30, (requires log in).
Brian Duncan & Daniel I. Rees (2005). Effect of Smoking on Depressive Symptomatology: A Reexamination of Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, American Journal of Epidemiology, 162(5):461-470.
Press release:
Stuart N. Seidman (2001). Link Between Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction and Depression - Successful treatment of erectile dysfunction in depressed men can lead to marked improvement in depression, American Journal of Psychiatry, Oct. 2001, p. 1623. Note: The study was supported by Pfizer, Inc. Two special issues of Primary care companion to the journal of clinical psychiatry (2002) on the relationship between depression and erectile dysfunction: Vol. 4, No. 3 & Vol. 5, No. 4. Index page to the full online edition free.
Popular Press:
T. Saarto (2005). Antidepressants: 1st Choice for Nerve Pain, The Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, July 20, 2005. News release, Health Behavior News Service, via FoxNews.
Worldwide PDQ (2005). Workout can lighten heavy hearts: Exercise may equal medication in easing depression, experts say, Nov. 6, 2005.
Collections and Discussions:
Topic area in Medscape: Depression (requires log in). Topic area in Psycoloquy: mood.
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