Deprese u kardiálních, neurologických a onkologických onemocnění

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Title in English Depressive Disorder in Cardiovascular, Neurological and Oncologic Diseases
Authors

ČEŠKOVÁ Eva

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Časopis lékařů českých
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Psychiatry, sexuology
Keywords depressive disorder; cardiovascular disease; epilepsy; Parkinson disease; stroke; cancer
Description The discovery of antidepressants meant undoubtedly a revolution in psychiatry. The developement of antidepressants has changed the image of psychiatry, brought a progress in the treatment and became a stimulus for investigations of mental illnesses ethiopathogenesis. Nowadays it is becomming evident, that many biologic, psychologic and with high probability also social aspects are common for the depression and for somatic disorders. The more prominent is the association of depression with cardiovascular disease. Neurological disease, mainly the epilepsy, Parkinson disease and stroke represent further common sphere. Historically, association between cancer and depression was identified first. The article presents epidemiological data and analyses possible common mechanisms of somatic disease and depression. In the last part the actual data and about the treatment of depression in individual somatic diseases are described.
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