SF Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Published articles in this issue
Abstract: Patients follow a stroke face off with negative emotional reactions. Depression and anxiety are very common psychiatric symptoms after stroke. A recent meta-analysis has found a prevalence of depression in post-stroke patients of 17.7% [1]. Many studies have focus on depression because post-stroke patients with depression had a worse functional recovery and impairment than patients
Abstract: Objective: In the present study we evaluated the relationship between religious commitment and quality of life among undergraduate students. Methods: Two questionnaires including the Religious Commitment Scale, to assess four dimensions of belief, ritual, experience and consequence and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) to evaluate, vitality, physical functioning, bodily pain
Abstract: Anxiety and fear share similarities such as a feeling of unease and apprehension but the former is related to unpredictable threats with a distant time frame, while the latter is associated with short duration threats. This review considers these two entities from the perspective of cingulate cortex and shows that they activate different subregions; subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sACC)
Abstract: Anhedonia is defined as the total loss of pleasure. It is a condition present in psychiatric disorders, such as depression, psychosis, psychic alterations related to alcoholism [1]. In these pathologies it is one of many symptoms. Anhedonia is often erroneously considered synonymous with depression.
Abstract: A developing body of evidence shows that stressful life events have a significant causal association with the beginning of major depression episodes. Genetic factors impact on the experience of stressful life events, and these factors are connected
Abstract: Objective: To analyze the influence of anxiety on high levels of neuroticism in children. Methods: The Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised (VAA-R) and the Big Five Questionnaire–Children version (BFQ-C)
Abstract: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an evidence-based meditation training intervention that significantly reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress for patients suffering from a wide range of medical conditions.
Abstract: In recent years, we have been witnessing a rapid growth of researches about gut microbiota and its role in health and disease. The gastrointestinal tract is inhabited by more than 100 trillion of microorganisms, among which at least 1000 different species of bacteria