For many years, a deficiency of monoamines including serotonin has been the prevailing
hypothesis on depression, yet research has failed to confirm consistent relations between …

Context Depression is a mental disorder characterized by low mood, reduced interest,
impaired cognitive function, and vegetative symptoms such as sleep disturbances or poor …

The effects of state-level women's status and autonomy on individual-level women's
depressive symptoms were examined. We conducted a multi-level analysis of the 1991 …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is estimated to impose maximum debilitating effects on the
society by 2030, with its critical effects on health, functioning, quality of life and concomitant …

The social construction and learning of gender are intimately tied to the way people
experience, express, and respond to problems in their lives. This is particularly true in the …

Background: Worldwide, women are found to suffer from depression significantly more than
men. This has puzzled the scientists since no biological explanation can completely resolve …

These discrepancies between the newly available epidemiological evidence and the GBD
modelling are noteworthy for future research and the next wave of GBD calculations. The …

This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how
was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness …

The article uses a wide range of archival and literary sources to examine perceptions of
mental incapacity. It looks first at what quantifiable measures may and may not tell us about …

| Meek when the “Imperious Wife” assumes the common pose of the distraught hysteric
in order to manipulate her husband. Finally, a disappearing, yet lingering, medical view …