The Nature of Depression
An Updated Review
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The Nature of Depression: An Updated Review provides clear connections between psychiatric and neurological disorders. Unlike prior books on depression, this book covers many neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, major depressive disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, PTSD, addiction and anxiety disorder. In addition, this book covers different forms of depression, including transition-induced depression and the development of depression following major life events, including birth of a child, menopause and retirement.
Key Features
- Covers depression comorbidity with psychological and neurological disorders
- Reviews comorbidity with addiction, anxiety, trauma and psychosis
- Compares the symptoms of subclinical depression to major depression
- Discusses how stress and sleep impact depression
- Theorizes the path of depression following negative life transitions
Readership
Advanced students and researchers in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology
Table of Contents
Recent topics on major depressive disorders
- Peripheral biomarkers in major depressive disorders
- Neural and Genetic correlates of Cognitive Deficits in Major Depressive Disorder
- The effects of antidepressants (SSRIs) on Cognitive function in Major Depressive Disorder
- The Neural Substrates of Different Depression Symptoms: Animal and Human Studies
- Depression in Parkinson’s disease
- Anxiety, Depression and Migraine Comorbidity: A Literature Review
- The interrelationship between alcoholism, depression, and anxiety
- The relationship between gambling and depression
- The nature of depression in bipolar disorder
- The Relationships Between Social Media Use and Factors Relating to Depression
- Impulsivity and its Relationship with Anxiety, Stress, and Depression
- A review on depression following major life transitions
The nature of depression in other disorders
General topics on depression
Product details
- No. of pages: 242
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: October 9, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128176771
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128176764
About the Author
Ahmed Moustafa
Dr. Ahmed A. Moustafa is an associate professor in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Marcs Institute for Brain, Behavior, and Development, and in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University. He is trained in computer science, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. His early training took place at Cairo University in mathematics and computer science. Before joining Western Sydney University as a lab director, he spent 11 years in America studying psychology and neuroscience. He
researches computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD, and depression. He has published more than 150 papers in high-ranking journals including Science, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Brain, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, and Neuron.
Affiliations and Expertise
Associate Professor, Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland; School of Psychology and Marcs Institute for Brain and Behaviour, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia