Encyclopedia of Depression Research

562 Pages·2012·7.24 MB·English

by  James R. Fusco

DEPRESSION- CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

E D
NCYCLOPEDIA OF EPRESSION

RESEARCH

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DEPRESSION- CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

E D
NCYCLOPEDIA OF EPRESSION

RESEARCH

JAMES R. FUSCO
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CONTENTS

Preface ix
Chapter 1 Dyslexia, Children and Depression: Research Evidence 1
Neil Alexander-Passe
Chapter 2 Dyslexic Children and Depression: Empirical Evidence 39
Neil Alexander-Passe
Chapter 3 Depression in Children and Adolescents 87
Uma Rao and Li-Ann Chen
Chapter 4 Children, Depression and Essential Fatty Acids 127
Rachel V. Gow, Alexander Sumich
and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
Chapter 5 Depression Comorbidity Among Children: Potential
Explanations, Shared Risk Factors, and Directions
for Future Research 155
Deborah A. G. Drabick
Chapter 6 Controversies in Childhood and Adolescent Depression 179
Francisco Escobar Rabadán, Juan Manuel Téllez Lapeira,
Jesús López-Torres Hidalgo, Clotilde Boix Graz,
Ignacio Párraga Martínez and Rubén Escribá Quijada
Chapter 7 The Relative Lack of Attention to Depression in Young
Children: A ‘Sad’ State of Affairs 215
Kimberly Renk, Samantha L. Scott, Melissa Middleton
and Rachel Wolfe
Chapter 8 The Relationship Between Dimensions of Parenting
and Cognitive And Interpersonal Vulnerability Factors
to Depression in Youth 241
Claire Starrs, Philippe Adams, Temilola Salami,
Irene Zilbe and John R. Z. Abela
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Chapter 9 Depression Vulnerability in Middle and Late Childhood
and Its Relationship with Gender, Self Competence,
and Coping 257
María Cristina Richaud de Minzi
Chapter 10 The Importance of Identifying Child and Adolescent
Depression in the Medical Setting 271
Athena Sojourner-Nelson, Allison Briscoe-Smith
and Cheryl Koopman
Chapter 11 Depression in Children with Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome 277
Andrea E. Cavanna, Mary M. Robertson, Luca Bertero
and Stefano Cavanna
Chapter 12 Neuroplasticity: A New Approach to Treatment of Depression 287
Tayfun Uzbay
Chapter 13 Antidepressant Therapy and the Risk of Suicide among
Patients with Major Depressive Disorders 353
Maurizio Pompili, Gianluca Serafini, Marco Innamorati,
Michele Battuello, Mariantonietta Milelli,
Roberto Tatarelli and David Lester
Chapter 14 Monitoring of Antidepressant Therapy by Using Heart
Rate Variability 377
Sven Suefke, Hasib Djonlagic and Thomas Kibbel
Chapter 15 The Overlap between Depression and Suicidal Behaviour:
Implication for the Preventative Effect of Antidepressant
Pharmacotherapy 399
Louise Brådvik and Mats Berglund
Chapter 16 Synthetic Inhibitors of Prolyl Endopeptidase Exhibit
Antidepressant-Like Effects in Rat Models of Depressive
Syndrome and Anxiety-Depression State 419
N. A. Krupina, N. N. Khlebnikova, N. N. Zolotov,
E. Yu Kushnareva, N. G. Bogdanova and I. N. Orlova
Chapter 17 Beyond the Monoamine Hypothesis: The Quest
for an Integrative Etiology of Depression and New
Therapeutic Strategies 439
Barbara Di Benedetto, Rainer Rupprecht
and Gerhard Rammes
Chapter 18 Tianeptine and Sertraline: Underlying Neurochemical
Mechanisms of Action 453
Rustem Uzbekov and Irina Alieva
Chapter 19 Gender Differences in Response to Antidepressants 483
Shigeru Morishita, Toshihiko Kinoshita
and Seizaburo Arita
Contents vii
Chapter 20 Adult Neurogenesis and Depression: A Novel Theory
for Depression? 505
Philippe Taupin
Index 509