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Swan J, Macvicar R, Christmas D, Durham R, Rauchhaus P, McCullough Jr J, et al.
J Affect Disord . 2013 Nov; 152-154:268-76. PMID: 24182417
Background: Evidence-based guidance on how best to treat chronic depression is limited. Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) has shown some promise with this 'difficult-to-treat' clinical group. This case...
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Christmas D, Douglas Steele J, Tolomeo S, Eljamel M, Matthews K
J Affect Disord . 2013 Jul; 150(3):1221-5. PMID: 23816447
Background: There are limited treatment options for patients with chronic, treatment-refractory major depression who do not respond to routinely-available treatments. Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) may represent an alternative to ablative...
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Br J Psychiatry . 2013 Jun; 202:465. PMID: 23732938
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Hazari H, Christmas D, Matthews K
J Affect Disord . 2013 May; 150(2):231-6. PMID: 23668902
Background: Despite the acknowledged healthcare and economic burdens of chronic major depression, there is no agreed method to rate the degree to which patients are conceptualised as being refractory to...
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Sprengelmeyer R, Douglas Steele J, Mwangi B, Kumar P, Christmas D, Milders M, et al.
J Affect Disord . 2011 May; 133(1-2):120-7. PMID: 21531027
Background: The neuroanatomical substrate underlying Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is incompletely understood. Recent reports have implicated the insular cortex. Methods: Two cohorts of participants with MDD were tested. In the...
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Christmas D, Eljamel M, Butler S, Hazari H, Macvicar R, Douglas Steele J, et al.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry . 2010 Dec; 82(6):594-600. PMID: 21172856
Background: There is very limited evidence for the efficacy of any specific therapeutic intervention in chronic, treatment refractory major depression. Thermal anterior capsulotomy (ACAPS) is a rarely performed but established...
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Bajbouj M, Merkl A, Schlaepfer T, Frick C, Zobel A, Maier W, et al.
J Clin Psychopharmacol . 2010 May; 30(3):273-81. PMID: 20473062
One of the major goals of antidepressant treatment is a sustained response and remission of depressive symptoms. Some of the previous studies of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) have suggested antidepressant...
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Zhang L, Gough J, Christmas D, Mattey D, Richards S, Main J, et al.
J Clin Pathol . 2009 Dec; 63(2):156-64. PMID: 19955554
Background: The authors have previously reported genomic subtypes of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) based on expression of 88 human genes. Aim: To attempt to reproduce these findings, determine the...
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Douglas Steele J, Christmas D, Eljamel M, Matthews K
Biol Psychiatry . 2007 Oct; 63(7):670-7. PMID: 17916331
Background: Anterior cingulotomy (ACING) is a neurosurgical treatment for chronic refractory depression, pain, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Anterior cingulotomy involves the placement of bilateral lesions in the anterior cingulate under stereotactic...
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Ridout N, OCarroll R, Dritschel B, Christmas D, Eljamel M, Matthews K
Neuropsychologia . 2007 Mar; 45(8):1735-43. PMID: 17327133
Four patients that had received an anterior cingulotomy (ACING) and five patients that had received both an ACING and an anterior capsulotomy (ACAPS) as an intervention for chronic, treatment refractory...