What's the difference between depressive and unipolar?

Depressive


Definition:

  • (a.) Able or tending to depress or cast down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
  • (3) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (4) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
  • (5) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (6) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
  • (7) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
  • (8) The data are compared with the results from 79 patients with a bipolar depression, 192 with a neurotic depression and 89 with a depressive reaction.
  • (9) A similar depressed receptor function was observed for C3b, fibronectin, and some lectins.
  • (10) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
  • (11) Both treatments depressed nocturnal pineal melatonin content in rats and hamsters.
  • (12) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
  • (13) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
  • (14) The literature on depression and immunity is reviewed and the clinical implications of our findings are discussed.
  • (15) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
  • (16) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
  • (17) These results indicate that the hormonal status should be taken into consideration in studies dealing with platelet MAO activity in depressed women.
  • (18) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
  • (19) Although esmolol may be used as a primary hypotensive agent, the potential for marked myocardial depression must be recognized.
  • (20) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.

Unipolar


Definition:

  • (a.) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.
  • (a.) Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bipolar affective illness were more frequent in the families of bipolar than unipolar probands.
  • (2) A case of a unipolar surgical electrocautery-induced runaway pacemaker is described.
  • (3) Twenty-one rats were divided into two groups: the control group which received no galvanic stimulation, and the galvanically stimulated group which received anodal galvanic stimulation (unipolar monoauricular, 5 mA in intensity, 500 msec of duration, 1 Hz in frequency) for 30 minutes.
  • (4) Unipolar rather than bipolar electrodes were used as they rpovided more reliable stimulation and more satisfactory electrograms for detection.
  • (5) A modified CWS technique using an external pulse generator (pulse width = 40 msec) ordinarily used for transcutaneous cardiac pacing was tested in 74 patients (40 with unipolar and 34 with bipolar DDD devices).
  • (6) The relationship of response to neuroleptic dose and desipramine plasma concentration was examined in 31 patients with unipolar delusional depression.
  • (7) RBC Ca++ adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) was lower in unipolar and control subjects than in bipolar depressed and manic patients.
  • (8) Eighty-seven unipolar electrocardiograms distributed over the anterior chest and the back were recorded simultaneously before and after the submaximal treadmill exercise.
  • (9) To determine if anodal excitation during bipolar stimulation facilitates the initiation of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or repetitive ventricular responses, both bipolar and cathodal unipolar programmed ventricular stimulation with one to three extrastimuli delivered during ventricular pacing at two rates from the right ventricular apex were performed in 28 patients evaluated for spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (11 patients), nonsustained tachycardia (eight patients), or syncope (nine patients).
  • (10) The results also suggest that there is some symptomatic overlap between schizophrenia and affective disorders regarding a disturbance in social relatedness predominant over a disturbance in mood (for unipolar states) and a disturbance in thought predominant over a disturbance in mood (for bipolar states).
  • (11) An early sleep GH increase was found in all but one of the normal men, but was absent in seven of the eight unipolar depressed patients, who had instead a presleep increase.
  • (12) Following an earlier report, plasma cortisol-binding capacity (CBC) was estimated in a new series of 11 men with unipolar depression and 11 men with bipolar illness admitted to hospital.
  • (13) The incidence of insulation break in this polyurethane unipolar electrode is uncommon and occurs at further stress points.
  • (14) No differences in magnesium levels were found in relation to diagnosis (unipolar, bipolar), sex and age.
  • (15) Patients with unipolar depression showed a significantly lower ratio of the metabolic rate of the caudate nucleus, divided by that of the hemisphere as a whole, when compared with normal controls and patients with bipolar depression.
  • (16) Although clinical series have shown success rates for bipolar prostheses as good as those for unipolar prostheses, the intended advantages have not been clearly demonstrated.
  • (17) Unipolar and bipolar leads are of similar reliability, apart from a number of specific bipolar polyurethane leads which have been identified.
  • (18) Animals were studied hemodynamically and with unipolar electrocardiographic mapping acutely and then were studied after a week and killed.
  • (19) Unipolar and bipolar intracardiac electrograms of NSR and 23 episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT) from 23 patients were obtained from a right ventricular apex electrode catheter during routine electrophysiology studies.
  • (20) Survival curves were used to analyze the relationship between chronicity of depression and hospital course in 48 adolescents with unipolar major depression.

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