The treatment of mental disorders with metacognitive interventions using the example of the metacognitive training for depression (D-MCT)Abstract. Over the last decade, psychotherapeutic interventions labelled “...
The survey “Datenerhebung zur Depression in der Allgemeinbevölkerung” was conducted from fall 2010 to spring 2011 on several online platforms. The results show that there is a considerable timespan between the appearance of initial symptoms of depression ...
The prevalence of a major depressive disorder in patients after myocardial infarction is 20%. Depression is a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease and poor prognosis after myocardial infarction. Poor lifestyle habits and adherence to cardiac ...
The article presents a user-friendly overview of psychotropic drugs which are helpful for the prescription in a primary care practice. The author recommends to get familiar with just a small selection of drugs first and second line. This means to know ...
Burnout is not a psychiatric diagnosis but a concept of the occupational psychology concerning the impact of working conditions on the psyche of affected persons. Burnout can be a mediator for clinical depression. Severe burnout fulfills mostly the ...
Chronic fatigue is a frequent complaint, but only leads to a medical consultation when consequences like sleep disturbance and reduced productivity become debilitating. Fear of a somatic disorder is usually prominent. However, the symptoms are usually ...
Relationship Between Depression and Cognitive DisordersAbstract. Depression, mild cognitive impairment and dementia are frequently associated, particularly in old age. Similar neuropathological mechanisms seem to underlie and partly explain ...
CME: Depression in Primary CareAbstract. Depressions belong to the most common illnesses at all and to the five most common illnesses in the primary care. The primary care is the first point of contact for depressive ...
Recognition of Psychiatric Symptoms in Inpatient Long-Term CareAbstract. As part of the Swiss national strategy on dementia, we investigated to which extent the needs assessment instruments RAI and BESA can early ...
Depression and Violence: A Contradiction?Abstract. Depression is one of the leading diseases worldwide. Its symptoms are of great importance for a variety of areas within internal medicine, as patients often pay a ...
A Surgically Treated DepressionAbstract. We present a 64-year-old patient with an unclear deterioration of her general condition due to a suspected depression. Despite antidepressive treatment, her condition further ...
The article reviews the relationship between depressive symptoms and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Evidence bearing on this relation comes from clinical findings, neuroimaging, and cerebrospinal fluid markers. Depression in elderly people is associated ...
Purpose of the study. The Depression in Old Age Scale (DIA-S), a new screening tool for geriatric depression, was designed to be both practical and appropriate for use with medically ill geriatric patients. The diagnostic accuracy of the DIA-S and the ...
We examined whether older individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) differed from healthy controls (HC) and persons with dementia (AD) in objective and perceived behavioral competence as well as in emotional well-being. We used a merged sample of ...
Abstract. Depression is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder in the general population. Despite a large demand for efficient treatment options, the majority of older depressed adults does not receive adequate treatment: Additional low-threshold ...
Abstract. We investigated the efficacy of reminiscence therapy (RT) on symptoms of depression in patients with mild to moderate dementia. Out of 227 patients with mild to moderate dementia from a specialized ...
Abstract. This article examines the cross-sectional and long-term prediction of sleep quality (SQ) of 167 older nursing-home residents (80% females, 69–100 years), who participated in the study in 2008 and 2016. SQ was assessed in 2016 by ...