Year: 2019

According to scientists, according to the binary typological model of depression, its psychopathological manifestations can be divided into positive and negative group of symptoms. Depending on the prevalence of a particular symptom, emit typical and

During the period of depression, suicidal thoughts, suicidal thoughts, which usually indicate the severity of depression, may arise due to the state of depression, depressed self-preservation instinct, intolerable mental pain. Suicide occurs in 15% of

Depression is characterized by a slower perception process, a decrease in its brightness, difficulty in processing new information, a decrease in volume and difficulty in concentrating attention, a deterioration in its differentiation, and an absent-mindedness.

Many researchers have noted the complexity and diversity of manifestations of depression. First of all, we are talking about different shades of hypothymia – low mood. It is believed that the main classic symptom of

In the works devoted to the study of electrophysiological correlates of depression, it was shown that in patients with “melancholy depression” electrophysiological signs of increased tone of the parasympathetic system are observed. When the parasympathetic

In the middle of the XX century J. Shildkraut (1961) was formulated so-called. catecholamine theory of the origin of depression. This theory suggested that dysregulation of the noradrenaline-sensitive brain system was one of the important

During depression, the rhythmic excretion of sex hormones is disturbed, the menstrual cycle changes, and blood pressure and body temperature fluctuate (Linkowski P., van Cauter E., Kerkhofs M., 1994). A sharp decrease in the level

When depression also reveals a violation of the secretion of growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland during human sleep, hence we can assume some of the mechanisms of sleep disorders in depression. Violation of

According to P. Whybroy (1985), depression can be defined as the feedback of three sets of variables at the level of biochemistry, life experience and behavior, and the anatomical substrate or field of interaction of

The experience of depression should be characterized as a phenomenon of the man-environment system, that is, taking into account the influence of the social factor (Coyne J., 1976; McCullough J., 1984, 1996). Urbanization, acute and