Depression and the medicalization of sadness: conceptualization and recommended help-seeking

Critiques of the validity of the DSM diagnostic criteria for depressive disorder argue that it fails to differentiate between abnormal sadness due to internal dysfunction or depression (sadness without an identifiable cause), and normal sadness (sadness with a clear cause)

Physiological, behavioral and subjective sadness reactivity in frontotemporal dementia subtypes.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a neurodegenerative disease broadly characterized by socioemotional impairments, includes three clinical subtypes: behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD), semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) and non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA). Emerging evidence has shown emotional reactivity impairments in bvFTD and svPPA, whereas emotional reactivity in nfvPPA is far less studied. In 105 patients with FTD (49 bvFTD, 31 svPPA and 25 nfvPPA) and 27 healthy controls, we examined three aspects of emotional reactivity (physiology, facial behavior and subjective experience) in response to a sad film. In a subset of the sample, we also examined the neural correlates of diminished aspects of reactivity using voxel-based morphometry. Results indicated that all three subtypes of FTD showed diminished physiological responding in respiration rate and diastolic blood pressure; patients with bvFTD and svPPA also showed diminished subjective experience, and no subtypes showed diminished facial behavior. Moreover, there were differences among the clinical subtypes in brain regions where smaller volumes were associated with diminished sadness reactivity. These results show that emotion impairments extend to sadness reactivity in FTD and underscore the importance of considering different aspects of sadness reactivity in multiple clinical subtypes for characterizing emotional deficits and associated neurodegeneration in FTD

Volume 42, Number 1 - Christmas 1962

Volume 42, Number 1 - Christmas 1962. 36 pages including covers and advertisements. Editorial Castelluccio, Michael. The Silent Echo Eck, Thomas. Sadness Deschene, James M.. In a Vision of Cities Hallee, Thomas A.. Wind and Water Conn, Peter J.. The Windmill Bartlett, Alexander. Jake Farrelly, James P.. Contention Bird, Barry. Club Champion Annual Writing Contes

The Growing Sadness

Kehidupan itu sebagaimana sebuah lanskap. Kita tinggal di dalamnya, namun hanya dapat mendeskripsikannya jika kita mengambil jarak untuk menilainya. Berbagai macam orang dengan psikologi uniknya masing-masing seiring perjalanan hidup Penulis menjadi hal yang menarik. Dari ketertarikan ini, muncul keinginan Penulis untuk mengangkatnya menjadi permasalahan yang ingin ditampilkan dalam karya tugas akhir. Visualisasi karya tugas akhir ini merupakan bidang-bidang lanskap yang dirancang untuk memicu perasaan atau pemikiran manusia. Lanskap di sini dipakai sebagai bahasa metaphor untuk menceritakan bagian kecil dari dalam diri manusia yang diacu. Konsep estetik ditampilkan melalui beberapa potongan lanskap dengan elemen-elemen alam yang disusun untuk mencapai nuansa tertentu. Karya divisualisasikan menjadi enam (6) lukisan simbolik impresionis yang ditampilkan dengan media cat minyak di atas kanvas. Komposisi warna yang cenderung monokromatik dimaksudkan untuk mengarahkan apresiator dari lanskap menuju makna khusus yang dikandung lanskap tersebut. Diharapkan dari karya tugas akhir ini apresiator dapat memperoleh waktu sejenak mengambil jarak, untuk merasakan dan menilai satu hal samar namun juga penting dalam hidup, kesedihan

Parental socialization of emotion : how mothers respond to their children's emotions in Turkey

Several research studies suggest a link between parents’ emotion socialization and children’s social competence and behavior problems. Parents contribute to their children’s emotion socialization, more directly, through responses to their children’s emotions. Early emotion socialization experiences with parents establish patterns of emotion experience, expression, and regulation that children carry into their broader social circles. Few scales exist to document parents’ responses to children’s emotions. The aim of this study was to document mothers’ responses to their children’s sadness, anger, fear, and being overjoyed. A study sample of 868 mothers of preschoolers completed the questionnaire in Turkey. The validity and reliability properties of the Responses to Children’s Emotions (RCE) Questionnaire were also examined. We found that mothers in Turkey preferred to respond differently to children’s different emotions. Mothers’ responses generally did not differ according to the gender of their children; the only difference was found for sadness. Mothers’ responses to their children’s emotions related to the children’s and mothers’ ages, monthly family income, levels of mothers’ education, mothers’ employment status, birth order of children, and the city they lived in. This study is important in that it is the first to document mothers’ emotion socializationpeer-reviewe

Obituary: Jacob Brodzinsky (January 17,1918 - February 25, 2003)

Earlier this year, at the age of 85, Major Jacob Brodzinsky passed away at his home in Santo Domingo. It is with great sadness that I write this obituary, because Jake was a great personal friend and professional colleague for over 30 years. He leaves a wife, Marianela (Mañeña) Lopez-Penha, whom he married on April 26,1964, and two lovely daughters, Sibylla and Raquel

How major depressive disorder affects the ability to decode multimodal dynamic emotional stimuli

Most studies investigating the processing of emotions in depressed patients reported impairments in the decoding of negative emotions. However, these studies adopted static stimuli (mostly stereotypical facial expressions corresponding to basic emotions) which do not reflect the way people experience emotions in everyday life. For this reason, this work proposes to investigate the decoding of emotional expressions in patients affected by Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder (RMDDs) using dynamic audio/video stimuli. RMDDs’ performance is compared with the performance of patients with Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood (ADs) and healthy (HCs) subjects. The experiments involve 27 RMDDs (16 with acute depression - RMDD-A, and 11 in a compensation phase - RMDD-C), 16 ADs and 16 HCs. The ability to decode emotional expressions is assessed through an emotion recognition task based on short audio (without video), video (without audio) and audio/video clips. The results show that AD patients are significantly less accurate than HCs in decoding fear, anger, happiness, surprise and sadness. RMDD-As with acute depression are significantly less accurate than HCs in decoding happiness, sadness and surprise. Finally, no significant differences were found between HCs and RMDD-Cs in a compensation phase. The different communication channels and the types of emotion play a significant role in limiting the decoding accuracy

Book Review: Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism

Excerpt: This tension—between the romantic ideal of the road trip and its inability to meet high expectations— is clearly evident in Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, by Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein. While the book’s concept is appealing, its content challenging and insightful, I felt an air of sadness throughout Girldrive; and this road trip to “redefine feminism” was, at its heart, disappointing