Research Catalog

Title

The Psychobiology of the depressive disorders : implications for the effects of stress / edited by Richard A. Depue.

Publication

New York : Academic Press, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

Depue, Richard A.

Description

xxi, 446 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Part I: provides a conceptual framework for the many issues and variables inherent in a comprehensive theory of human disorders -- Part II: provides a framework for clinical distinctions in the depressive disorders which may prove meaningful in the investigation of more specific stress-biology pathways -- Part III: provides a framework from several different vantage points for examining biologic variables, found to be relevant to the depressive disorders -- Part IV: provides the latest statements on two issues by prominent researchers -- Part V: provides two creative discussions on the manner in which Stress-Biology interactions may be conceptualized and studied.

Series Statement

Personality and psychopathology

Uniform Title

Personality and psychopathology

Subject

• Depression, Mental > Physiological aspects
• Stress (Psychology)
• Stress (Physiology)
• Depression > psychology
• Stress, Psychological
• Depression, Mental > Physiological aspects
• Depression
• Psychobiologie
• Stress

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

The psychobiology of human disease : implications for conceptualizing the depressive disorders -- The unipolar-bipolar distinction in the depressive disorders : implications for stress-onset interaction -- Neurotic depression : the endogenous-neurotic distinction -- Neurotic depression : the concept of anxious depression -- The conceptualization and measurement of stressful life events : an overview of the issues -- Coping behavior and stress-induced behavioral depression : studies of the role of brain catecholamines -- Stress and noradrenergic function in depression -- Free cortisol as a peripheral index of central vulnerability to major forms of polar depressive disorders : examining stress-biology interactions in subsyndromal high-risk person -- Genetic influences on catecholamine metabolism -- Neurophysiological reactivity, stimulus intensity modulation and the depressive disorders -- Recent life events in the development of the depressive disorders -- The social etiology of depression London studies -- Reinforcement and depression -- Vulnerable self-esteem as a predisposing factor in depressive disorders -- Learned helplessness, stress, and the depressive disorders -- A selective review of cognitive and behavioral factors involved in the regulation of stress -- Advantages of a behavior-genetic approach to investigating stress in the depressive disorders -- A biobehavioral approach to depression.

ISBN

• 012211650X
• 9780122116506

LCCN

79051676

OCLC

• ocm05410398
• 5410398
• SCSB-9794772

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library