Sökning: "dexamethasone suppression test DST"
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1. The emotional motor system and gastrointestinal symptoms
Sammanfattning : There is a significant comorbidity between anxiety/depression and functional gastrointestinal syndromes, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia. The pathophysiological link between emotions and the gut is not known. LÄS MER
2. Individual glucocorticoid sensitivity in the human
Sammanfattning : The expanding use of inhaled and intranasal glucocorticoid (Gc) preparations for treatment of mild-to-moderate asthma and allergic rhinitis has in the last decade greatly increased the number of adults and children chronically exposed to exogenous glucocorticoids. In general, current topical glucocorticoid therapies appear to be well tolerated. LÄS MER
3. Clinical studies of biomarkers in suicide prediction
Sammanfattning : Suicide is a major clinical problem in psychiatry and suicidal behaviours can be seen as a nosological entity per se. Predicting suicide is difficult due to its low base-rate and the limited specificity of clinical predictors. LÄS MER
4. Light treatment in seasonal and nonseasonal depression : diagnostic, clinical and neurendocrine studies
Sammanfattning : There is a need for evaluation of new treatment modalities in depression. The aims of this thesis were to investigate the effect of 2 hours of daily light treatment for 10 days in patients with a major depression with seasonal or nonseasonal pattern and to study subgroups of depressed patients with respect to clinical, demographic, and neuroendocrine factors, the effect of exposure to bright light, dexamethasone suppression test, CRH stimulation and the hormonal effect of light exposure on healthy controls. LÄS MER
5. Affective disorders : multivariate investigations of clinical and biological variables
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a methodological and clinical investigation of patients with affective disorders. The goal of the study was to determine the extent to which biological and clinical measures may cluster clinical subpopulations. Analytical and statistical procedures were applied for this purpose. LÄS MER