Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder worldwide. The burden of disease for
depression goes beyond functioning and quality of life and extends to somatic health …

The interaction of physical and mental vulnerability and environmental constraints is thought
to foster the development of psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder (MDD) …

Three alternative views regarding how Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) alters emotional
reactivity have been featured in the literature: positive attenuation (reduced positive …

Little is known about normative variation in stress response over the adolescent transition.
This study examined neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to performance and …

Depression is a risk factor for medical morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary heart
disease (CHD). Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) may explain why …

Context It has been hypothesized that depression is associated with lower heart rate
variability and decreased cardiac vagal control. This may play an important role in the risk of …

A high sympathetic and/or a low cardiovagal activity in patients with major depression (MD)
may contribute to the higher cardiac morbidity and mortality of MD patients. Standardized …

Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between depressed
mood and parasympathetic control of the heart in healthy men and women at rest and during …

Despite the high prevalence of depression and hypertension, the relationship between the
two diseases has received little attention. This paper reviews the epidemiological …

BACKGROUND: Depression is associated with greater cardiac morbidity and mortality. One
of the contributory factors for this may be altered cardiac autonomic activity in depression …