Failure to segregate emotional processing from cognitive and sensorimotor processing in major depression.

Most functional neuroimaging studies of major depressive disorder (MDD) employ univariate methods of statistical analysis to localize abnormalities of neural activity. Less has been done to investigate functional relations between these regions, or with regions not usually implicated in depression. Examination of intraneuronal and interneural network relations is important for the advancement of emerging network models for MDD.

A qualitative analysis of social concerns of women with ovarian cancer.

A diagnosis of ovarian cancer requires a woman to reevaluate her interactions with family, friends, and employers, and cope with unexpected and unwanted changes in areas spanning from financial stability to sexuality and fertility. Social well-being is the aspect of a patient's overall quality of life that encompasses these topics, as it has evolved to represent activities related to roles and relationships at work and at home. The purpose of this study was to explore the social well-being of women with ovarian cancer to better define their needs for the health care community.

Family perspectives of ovarian cancer.

Purpose: This qualitative study explored quality of life (QOL) in family caregivers of ovarian cancer patients to better define their needs for support.

Description Of Study: One thousand one hundred pieces of correspondence written by family caregivers of ovarian cancer patients were contributed to the City of Hope investigators by the founder and editor of Conversations!: The International Newsletter for Those Fighting Ovarian Cancer. The investigators analyzed meaningful comments in the letters using content analysis methods.