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Description:: Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent, recurrent, and major public health problems. Decades of research has uncovered associations between symptom dimensions of anxiety and depression and abnormal neural activation across executive control-, threat-, and reward-related networks. Recent studies have developed a hierarchical symptom structure of anxiety and depression termed the...
Keyword:: Executive Control, Reward, EEG, Threat, Anxiety, and Depression
Subject:: Physiology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Glazer, James
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_903824 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16106

Description:: Depression is a challenging mental illness that requires individuals to manage their moods and emotions over time. While past mental health literature describes how individuals seek and share support on social media and within online communities, the ways that offline and one-on-one supportive interactions unfold is less clear. To address...
Keyword:: Self-Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociality, Mental Health, Communication Technology, and Depression
Subject:: Mental health, Design, and Communication
Creator:: Burgess, Eleanor R.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15512 and etdadmin_upload_811409

Description:: Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels are expressed in the heart and central nervous system where they regulate membrane excitability. Recently, inhibiting HCN channels in the hippocampus has been identified as a possible therapeutic intervention for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). However, based on the high expression level of...
Keyword:: HCN, OPC, Oligodendrocyte, TRIP8b, and Depression
Subject:: Neuroscience, Biochemistry, and Developmental Biology
Creator:: Kyle Andrew Lyman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/17/2019
Date Modified:: 06/17/2019
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: https://doi.org/10.21985/N2W781

Description:: As type 2 diabetes requires complex self-management behaviors to avoid long-term complications, it is crucial that practitioners understand the psychosocial factors that may affect diabetic patients’ chronic disease self-management. Previous literature has identified depression and sleep disturbance as salient psychosocial factors that may impede self-management behaviors and lead to less...
Keyword:: Diabetes Self-Management, Type 2 Diabetes, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, and Depression
Subject:: Clinical Psychology
Creator:: Erika Jung
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/09/2018
Date Modified:: 10/09/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Background: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a significant public health issue. Previous research on the pathophysiology of depression in adults has demonstrated abnormal neural processing associated with depression symptomatology including alterations in reward and aversion circuits. Loss aversion (LA), or the concept that individuals evaluate outcomes based on losses and...
Keyword:: Reward, Loss Aversion, Prospect Theory, and Depression
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Sarah Louise O'Dor
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/09/2018
Date Modified:: 10/09/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The National Institute of Mental Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality convened an expert panel to identify the top research priorities in the field of behavioral intervention technology (BIT) research. The panel determined that if BIT research is to evolve in an effective way to reach and...
Keyword:: Barriers, Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Mobile, Apps, Depression, and Learning
Subject:: Clinical Psychology
Creator:: Elizabeth Colleen Stiles-Shields
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/19/2018
Date Modified:: 04/19/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Depression in children and adolescents is a prevalent, recurrent, and frequently chronic disorder, representing a considerable public health burden (Birmaher, Ryan, Williamson, Brent, & Kaufman, 2005; Costello et al., 2002). Consequently, an understanding of the disorder is critical for future intervention and prevention efforts. Previous research attempting to clarify family...
Keyword:: Inflammation, Empathy, Families, Consistency, and Depression
Subject:: Clinical Psychology
Creator:: Erika Manczak
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/18/2018
Date Modified:: 04/18/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This work argues that Latina/o immigrant Charismatic Catholicism does not encourage passive hope for heavenly rewards but rather emphasizes active strategies for transforming the self and the world. This study responds to two major concerns in the field of religious studies: the concern that Pentecostal forms of Christianity emphasize an...
Keyword:: Sin, Charismatic Catholic, Addiction, Latina/o Immigrant, Depression, and Conversion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Lynn Brigid Elizabeth Jencks
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/26/2018
Date Modified:: 02/26/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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