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K. Ranga Rama Krishnan

Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
Box 2741 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
2424 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Stress, Mood, and Pathways to Depression

Book section · January 1, 2017 Mood disorders are very common. More than 10-20% of the population suffers from mood disorders at one time or another. These disorders are heterogeneous and multifactorial. The most common form of mood dysregulation is depression. At least four intersectin ... Full text Cite

Treatment of bipolar disorder in special populations

Book section · January 1, 2016 Though often considered a young person’s disease because its mean age of onset is in late adolescence, bipolar disorder (BD) frequently demonstrates recurrent episodes and morbidities that continue throughout the lifetime of the patient and into old age. I ... Full text Cite

MRI-defined vascular depression

Book section · October 15, 2013 OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to characterize the clinical and demographic features of vascular depression. METHOD: They classified 89 depressed patients into two groups-those with vascular (N = 32) and nonvascular (N = 57) depression-on the basis of ex ... Cite

Psychiatric Disorders

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Psychiatric and psychosocial risks in acutely decompensated chronic heart failure patients

Book section · January 1, 2005 Chronic heart failure is the end stage of many diseases of the heart and has a major negative impact on the American public. While mortality from coronary artery disease (CAD) is declining, the incidence of chronic heart failure is increasing. More than 50 ... Full text Cite

Affective Disorders: Imaging Studies

Book section · January 1, 2003 Full text Cite

Structural brain investigations in affective disorders

Book section · January 1, 2002 Computed tomography (CT) scans were used for earlier research, but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides several advantages over CT. These higher-resolution images allow for more accurate measurement of structural volumes, which is facilitated by the M ... Cite