Journal of Palliative Medicine
July 2010
Scott A Irwin, Alana Iglewicz
Depression is prevalent and undertreated in patients receiving hospice care. Standard antidepressants do not work rapidly or often enough to benefit most of these patients. Here, two cases are reported in which a single oral dose of ketamine provided rapid and moderately sustained symptom relief for both depression and anxiety. In addition, no adverse effects were noted. Further investigation...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 2010
Effect of progressive self-focus meditation on attention, anxiety, and depression scores.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
June 1, 2010
Depression, craving, and substance use following a randomized trial of mindfulness-based relapse prevention.
The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling
May 1, 2010
Timothy C. Skinner, Terri Roberton, Garry T. Allison et al.
Abstract: This preliminary study sought to explore the link between depression, experiential avoidance and mindfulness in people with a spinal cord injury (SCI). We surveyed patients listed on the SCI database at Royal Perth Hospital who had experienced an injury over the last 10 years. Respondents (62) completed a questionnaire including the depression subscale of the Depression Anxiety Stress...
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
May 2010
Hye Myung Joo, Sung Jae Lee, Yong Gu Chung et al.
In this study, the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program was applied to patients presenting with depression and anxiety after surgery from spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and the effects were assessed. The subjects were patients admitted for cerebral aneurysm rupture and treated by means of surgery from March to December, 2007. More than 6 months had passed after surgery,...
BMC Psychiatry
April 30, 2010
S Duggan Danielle, J Whitaker Chris, Russell Daphne et al.
Abstract Background Depression is often a chronic relapsing condition, with relapse rates of 50-80% in those who have been depressed before. This is particularly problematic for those who become suicidal when depressed since habitual recurrence of suicidal thoughts increases likelihood of further acute suicidal episodes. Therefore the question how to prevent relapse is of particular urgency in...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
April 7, 2010
The long-term effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a relapse prevention treatment for major depressive disorder.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
April 1, 2010
Hypnosis, rumination, and depression: catalyzing attention and mindfulness-based treatments.
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
April 1, 2010
T. Rao, Chittaranjan Andrade
Byline: T.S. Rao, Chittaranjan. Andrade Antidepressant drugs have traditionally addressed the monoamine triumvirate: serotonin, noradrenaline, and dopamine. There have been predominantly two mechanisms recruited in drug action - inhibition of monoamine reuptake and inhibition of intravesicular monoamine catabolism. Tianeptine, which increases the synaptic reuptake of serotonin, and mirtazapine,...
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
April 1, 2010
Stefan G Hofmann, Alice T. Sawyer, Ashley A. Witt et al.
BACKGROUND Although mindfulness-based therapy has become a popular treatment, little is known about its efficacy. OBJECTIVES To conduct an effect size analysis of this popular intervention for anxiety and mood symptoms in clinical samples. DATA SOURCES A literature search was conducted using PubMed, PsycInfo, the Cochrane Library, and manual searches. REVIEW METHODS The search identified 39...