Sentence examples for depressive disease from inspiring English sources

The fear of childbirth appeared to increase the prevalence of postpartum depression by about threefold in women without a history of depression and fivefold in women with known depressive disease.

For example, in the amygdala, abnormal elevations of resting metabolism can be seen in depressed samples categorized as having BD, familial pure depressive disease (FPDD), MDD-melancholic type, or MDD which is responsive to a night of total sleep deprivation (reviewed in Drevets 2001).

There was a significantly increased frequency of mutant heterozygotes and homozygotes among individuals with depressive disease.

This is consistent with a model in which Pc 1 Duarte is the major gene in depressive disease, acting in conjunction with an environmental threshold effect.

"One of the greatest benefits of genomic medicine will be to unravel some biological contributions to major mental illnesses like schizophrenia and manic depressive disease" and produce new therapies, Dr. Collins said.

In this model, men who are alcoholic, antisocial, or addicted to other mood-altering substances are suspected of suffering from an underlying depressive disease.

Kessler et al. [32] computed an odds ratio for prevalent patients of 2.7 for depressive diseases, an odds ratio of 3.2 for generalized anxiety disorders, and a range of 1.5 to 7.9 for substance abuse.

Though the etiology of depressive diseases is not yet fully understood, there is evidence that besides genetic factors[1] also environmental influences such as stressful life events are involved in its development[2].

Nevertheless we think that in patients with depressive diseases, conservative surgery and radiotherapy can be considered as an alternative to a mastectomy.

Others have lifelong depressive diseases that will stay with them.

It is an amazingly effective adjunct in the treatment of manic-depressive disease, an inherited illness that is still misunderstood and subject to medieval superstitious nonsense, such as the proclamations by Rooney.