Neuropsychopharmacology
(2003) 28, 1387-1399, advance online publication, 18 June 2003;
Emerging Evidence for a Central Epinephrine-Innervated 1-Adrenergic System that Regulates
Behavioral Activation and is Impaired in Depression.
EricA Stone, Yan Lin, Helen Rosengarten, H Kenneth Kramer and David Quarterma in
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
[updated 7.29.03]
[Asiskal][Dythymia]
One of the mood disorder gurus is Hagop S. Akiskal. In my understanding, he shaped (or coined) the concept
of dysthymia, which is mild and chronic depression. "Dysthymia and the Spectrum of Chronic Depressions" (edited by
him and Giovanni B. Vassano, 1997 ISBN: 1-57230-089-2) is becoming a classic. Before Akisakal,
clinicians and researchers of depression used to think that depression is temporaly
"happens" episode by episode. (So, what is the chronic depression among our clients?)
[updated 7.29.03]
[Theories][Cognitive-behavioral][Aaron T. Beck]
Another classic theory on depression is summerlized in this classic book,
Depression: Causes and Treatment(1967.) by A. Beck. I am curious about
the relationship between CBT and Zen Buddhism, which handles dialectic** topics and concepts.
** "A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction; "this situation created the inner dialectic of American history".
Source: http://www.hyperdictionary.com/