Contraindications to Use of Antidepressant and Antimanic M
• Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications • Feb 28 06

Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications: Contraindications to Use of Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications

There are few contraindications to antidepressant or antimanic medication treatment. Those that do exist are mostly related…


 

Indications for Use of Antidepressant and Antimanic Medica
• Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications • Feb 28 06

Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications: Indications for Use of Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications

Antidepressant Medications
Treatment should follow careful physical and psychological assessment and diagnosis. In most circumstances this…


 

Diagnostic Indications and Contraindications
• Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications • Feb 28 06

Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications: Diagnostic Indications and Contraindications
The terms antidepressant and antimanic imply selectivity and specificity to depression and mania, respectively. It is increasingly clear, however, that this is not the…


 

Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications
• Antidepressant and Antimanic Medications • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Pedro L. Delgado, M.D.
Alan J. Gelenberg, M.D.

The latter half of the 20th century represented a period of exponential growth in our knowledge of mood disorders. Fifty…


 

Strategies and Tactics in the Treatment of Depression
• Strategies and Tactics in the Treatment of Depression • Feb 27 06

Introduction

A. John Rush, M.D.
David J. Kupfer, M.D., Ph.D.

Supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Center Grant MH-30915 to the Department…


 

Treatment of Mood Disorders in the Medically Ill Patient
• Treatment of Mood Disorders in the Medically Ill Patient • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Greg L. Clary, M.D.
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan, M.D.

The incidence of comorbid mood disorders and general medical illness has been shown to have…


 

Light Therapy
• Light Therapy • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Dan A. Oren, M.D.
Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

Although exposure to environmental light has been regarded as therapeutic since ancient times and artificial light has been recommended for a variety of…


 

Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders
• Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, M.D.
Maurizio Fava, M.D.
Andrew A. Nierenberg, M.D.
Gary S. Sachs, M.D.

The introduction of monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and imipramine in the 1950s for…


 

Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Electroconvulsive Therapy • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Richard D. Weiner, M.D., Ph.D.
Andrew D. Krystal, M.D.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the use of electrically induced seizures for therapeutic purposes. Now, more than 60 years since its first use,…


 

Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapies • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.

Psychodynamic therapies of depression have been studied less rigorously than cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy. Nevertheless, both brief and extended psychodynamic psychotherapies, and in some cases psychoanalysis, have…


 

Combined Medication and Psychotherapy
• Combined Medication and Psychotherapy • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Steven D. Hollon, Ph.D.
Jan Fawcett, M.D.

This chapter is based on an expanded manuscript submitted February 1992 to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Panel on…


 

Depression-Focused Psychotherapies
• Depression-Focused Psychotherapies • Feb 27 06

Introduction

Michael E. Thase, M.D.

This research was supported in part by Grants MH-41884, MH-58397, and MH-30915 (MHCRC) from the National Institute of Mental Health. Thanks to Ms. Christine Johnson for her…


 

Mood Disorders
• Mood disorders - pro • Feb 27 06

Section Editor
A. John Rush, M.D.

Mood Disorders Introduction

This effort was supported by the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Center for Basic and Applied Research in Psychiatry to the Department…


 

Anabolic steroids flip the adolescent brain’s switch for aggression
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Feb 27 06

Anabolic steroids not only make teens more aggressive, but may keep them that way into young adulthood. The effect ultimately wears off but there may be other, lasting…


 

Anxiety Disorders: Introduction
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Introduction
The following disorders are contained in this section: Panic Disorder Without Agoraphobia, Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder, Specific Phobia,

 

Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

This category includes disorders with prominent anxiety or phobic avoidance that do not meet criteria for any specific Anxiety Disorder, Adjustment Disorder With Anxiety, or Adjustment Disorder With Mixed Anxiety and Depressed…


 

Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential features of Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder are prominent anxiety symptoms (Criterion A) that are judged to be due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (i.e., a drug of…


 

Anxiety Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of Anxiety Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition is clinically significant anxiety that is judged to be due to the direct physiological…


 

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor involving direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or…


 

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Includes Overanxious Disorder of Childhood)
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of Generalized Anxiety Disorder is excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation), occurring more days than not for a period of at least 6…


 

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential features of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder are recurrent obsessions or compulsions (Criterion A) that are severe enough to be time consuming (i.e., they take more than 1 hour a day) or cause…


 

Acute Stress Disorder
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of Acute Stress Disorder is the development of characteristic anxiety, dissociative, and other symptoms that occurs within 1 month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor (Criterion A).…


 

Specific Phobia (formerly Simple Phobia)
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of Specific Phobia is marked and persistent fear of clearly discernible, circumscribed objects or situations (Criterion A). Exposure to the phobic stimulus almost invariably provokes an…


 

Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder)
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of Social Phobia is a marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur (Criterion A). Exposure to the social or…


 

Agoraphobia
• Anxiety Disorders - pro • Feb 25 06

Features
Because Agoraphobia occurs in the context of Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia and Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder, the text and criteria set for Agoraphobia are provided separately in this section. The essential feature…


 
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