... magnesium content was related to the intensity of the symptoms. Highly depressed patients had the highest magnesium values. Today, we report the results of plasma and erythrocyte sodium and potassium, and of total and ultrafilterable plasma calcium in 66 hospitalized patients with major depression compared...

...C.J. Ali; J.A. Henry The London Centre of the UK National Poisons Information Service has received 107 enquiries about cases of self-poisoning involving trazodone. In 46 cases further data concerning symptoms and outcome were received from the doctor who made the enquiry. The data so far received...

...Leonardo Tondo; Caterina Burrai; Luciana Scamonatti; Jan Weissenburger; John Rush The Inventory for Depressive Symptomatology is a new scale for measuring depressive symptoms. The reliability, validity and correlations between self-report and clinician-rated versions of the scale were examined...

... pure depression patients (FPDD; n = 86) were those with only depression in the immediate family, and sporadic depressive patients (SDD; n = 98) had negative family histories. An analysis was performed using index symptoms, precipitating events, and premorbid personality features. A positive family...

.... With an increasing number of short (s) alleles of 5-HTTLPR, the scores for delusions, disorganization and negative symptoms were significantly decreasing among subjects having the TPH genotype AA but increasing among subjects having the TPH genotype AC, yielding the highest scores for the combinations AA × ll and AC...