Despite the sustained theoretical and empirical interest over the past 40 years in the
association between life events and suicidal ideation and behavior, the literature in this area …

Within the past 20years, depression research has given increasing consideration to the
possibility of complex and reciprocal relations between stress and depression. Not only …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

Stress exposure is central to theories of suicide. To advance understanding of the relation
between stress and suicide, we examined whether specific, theoretically-pertinent life …

This fully updated third edition of the highly praised Cognition and Emotion provides a
comprehensive overview of contemporary research on both normal emotional experience …

Both major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder are the subject of a voluminous
imaging and genetics literature. Here, we attempt a comprehensive review of MRI and …

The social zeitgeber theory [Ehlers, CL, Frank, E., & Kupfer, DJ (1988). Social zeitgebers
and biological rhythms. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 948–952] offers an explanation …

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a highly debilitating psychiatric illness that may affect as many as 1
in every 25 persons. This chapter discusses current research findings in BD. BD has been …

The etiology and clinical course of bipolar disorder are considered to be determined by
genetic and environmental factors. Although the kindling hypothesis emphasizes the impact …