Ten-Year Prospective Follow-Up Study of the Naturalistic Course of Dysthymic Disorder and Double Depression

Sixty-four elderly outpatients diagnosed according to the criteria of DSM-III as having affective disorders were submitted to follow-up study for 6–24 months (mean 15 months). Twenty patients (31%) were in good health throughout follow-up, fourty-four patients (69%) remained more or less chronically ill. The prognosis was better in patients diagnosed as having “adjustment disorder with depressed mood” and “dysthymic disorder”; when onset was late, and when there were no signs of organic brain C.N.S. damage.

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Midbrain serotonin and striatum dopamine transporter binding in double depression: A one-year follow-up study

Neuroscience Letters ◽

10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.042 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 441 (3) ◽

pp. 291-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Soili M. Lehto ◽

Tommi Tolmunen ◽

Jyrki Kuikka ◽

Minna Valkonen-Korhonen ◽

Mikko Joensuu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Dopamine Transporter ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Double Depression ◽

One Year

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Mental health service use by patients with dysthymic disorder: treatment use and dropout in a 7 1/2-year naturalistic follow-up study

Comprehensive Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.10.002 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 246-253 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Brian R. McFarland ◽

Daniel N. Klein

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Health Service ◽

Service Use ◽

Dysthymic Disorder ◽

Mental Health Service Use ◽

Health Service Use ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Disorder Treatment ◽

Treatment Use

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Associations of depression status and hopelessness with breast cancer: A 24-year follow-up study

Journal of Health Psychology ◽

10.1177/1359105315626998 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (10) ◽

pp. 1322-1331 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Amanda M Mitchell ◽

Patrick Pössel ◽

Benjamin W Van Voorhees ◽

William W Eaton

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Catchment Area ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Depression Status ◽

Double Depression ◽

Extended Duration ◽

Unexpected Findings ◽

Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study

This study extended the literature by examining whether three profiles of depression predicted breast cancer status. In 1076 women of the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study, depression status and hopelessness were measured at baseline and breast cancer status was ascertained 24 years later. Double depression, but not major depression or dysthymia, was associated with breast cancer. Hopelessness predicted fewer new cases of breast cancer. When double depression and hopelessness were simultaneously entered as predictors, the regression weights of both predictors increased. The role of severe and extended duration depression as well as possible explanations for unexpected findings are discussed.

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Trajectories of recovery of social and physical functioning in major depression, dysthymic disorder and double depression: A 3-year follow-up

Journal of Affective Disorders ◽

10.1016/j.jad.2009.10.029 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 124 (1-2) ◽

pp. 148-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

Didi Rhebergen ◽

Aartjan T.F. Beekman ◽

Ron de Graaf ◽

Willem A. Nolen ◽

Jan Spijker ◽

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Keyword(s):

Major Depression ◽

Physical Functioning ◽

Dysthymic Disorder ◽

Double Depression

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Five-Year Course and Outcome of Dysthymic Disorder: A Prospective, Naturalistic Follow-Up Study

American Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1176/appi.ajp.157.6.931 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 157 (6) ◽

pp. 931-939 ◽

Cited By ~ 122

Author(s):

D. N. Klein

Keyword(s):

Dysthymic Disorder ◽

Follow Up Study

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Electron Microscopy of Human Gallstones

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100065523 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 296-297

Author(s):

C. Wolpers ◽

R. Blaschke

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Bile Pigment ◽

X Ray Diffraction ◽

Triclinic Crystal System ◽

X Ray ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Infra Red ◽

Main Components

Scanning microscopy was used to study the surface of human gallstones and the surface of fractures. The specimens were obtained by operation, washed with water, dried at room temperature and shadowcasted with carbon and aluminum. Most of the specimens belong to patients from a series of X-ray follow-up study, examined during the last twenty years. So it was possible to evaluate approximately the age of these gallstones and to get information on the intensity of growing and solving.Cholesterol, a group of bile pigment substances and different salts of calcium, are the main components of human gallstones. By X-ray diffraction technique, infra-red spectroscopy and by chemical analysis it was demonstrated that all three components can be found in any gallstone. In the presence of water cholesterol crystallizes in pane-like plates of the triclinic crystal system.

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