RT Book, Section
A1 Barsky, Arthur J.
A1 Silbersweig, David A.
A1 Boland, Robert J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1138124062
T1 Preface
T2 Depression in Medical Illness
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071819084
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138124062
RD 2024/04/25
AB As  our  knowledge  expands  and  our  understanding  evolves,  we  have  come  to  appreciate  a  confluence  between  what  were  previously  thought  to  be  independent  entities:  depression  and  major  medical  illness.  The  associations  between  depression  and  medical  illness  are  more  intimate  and  more  extensive  than  previously  appreciated.  We  are  beginning  to  see  how  the  disease  processes  that  overtake  the  body  also  affect  the  brain,  and  conversely  how  brain  disorders  like  depression  can  affect  medical  illnesses.  Depression  influences  the  occurrence,  presentation,  course,  and  outcome  of  many  medical  illnesses,  and  conversely,  comorbid  medical  illnesses  can  affect  the  onset,  presentation,  course,  and  outcome  of  depression.  We  owe  this  enhanced  understanding  to  recent  advances  in  scientific  methods,  to  more  precise  clinical  observation,  and  to  greater  diagnostic  precision.