Cardiovascular Diseases and Depression

Introduction.- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease and Depression.- The risk relationship between depression and CVD during aging.- Mechanisms linking depression to cardiovascular disease: what do epidemiological studies tell us?.- Anxiety and the effects on cardiovascular disease.- A Clinical Cardiology Perspective of Psychocardiology.- The validity of vascular depression as a diagnostic construct.- Mental stress-induced myocardial infarction.- Neuropsychological Impairment of Patients with Depression.- Neuroimaging of risk factors of depression and cardiovascular disease.- Heart Rate Variability, Affective Disorders and Health.- Arterial Stiffness in the depression and cardiovascular comorbidity.- Depression and markers of arteriosclerosis - cross-sectional analyses of the baseline examination of the BiDirect Cohort study.- Metabolic-Inflammation Aspects of Depression and Cardiovascular Disease.- Genetic overlap between depression and cardiovascular disease.- Emotional word processing in cardiovascular disease, depression, and depression subtypes.- Nutrition and depression - current evidence on the association of dietary patterns with depression and its subtypes.- Cardiometabolic Risk and Monitoring in Psychiatric Disorders.- Monitoring for metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease in bipolar disorder: a shared illness process approach.- Assessment and Psychological interventions in depression comorbid with cardiovascular disease.- Moving beyond mood: is it time to recommend cognitive training for depression in older adults?.- The Internet and Mobile technology: a platform for behavior change and intervention in depression and CVDs.- Pharmacological treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and depression comorbidity: understanding epidemiological, clinical trial evidence and the biological underpinnings.- Anti-inflammatory agents for

Prof. Bernhard Baune (PhD, MD, MPH, FRANZCP) is a Specialist
Psychiatrist, clinician, researcher and holds the position of Chair of
Psychiatry and Head of the Discipline of Psychiatry at the University of
Adelaide, Australia. Prof. Baune's integrative research approach in
psychiatry is largely at the interface between clinical research, psychiatric
neuroscience and molecular psychiatry, stimulating research on the etiology and
pathophysiology of major psychiatric disorders, Neuropsychiatry, Preventive and
Translational Psychiatry. Areas of major research interest include depression,
psychiatric-medical comorbidity, the neurobiology of mood disorders and the
immunology of major psychiatric disorders.

Dr Phillip J. Tully is a psychologist and
early career fellow in the Discipline of Medicine, The University of Adelaide.
He is a postdoctoral fellow of Bordeaux University (France) and Freiburg
University (Germany) and holds the title of honorary clinical psychologist in
Cardiac Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide. He has provided clinical
psychology supports to hundreds of cardiac patients and extensively researched
the neuropsychiatric correlates of heart diseases.

"This comprehensive book, written and edited by internationally recognized researchers in the field, provides the latest information on the relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease. ... The intended audience includes interested students, clinicians, and researchers across medical, psychological, public health, allied health, and complementary medicine disciplines. ... This is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and needed book on cardiovascular disease and depression. Any clinician interested in keeping up with this important research should read it." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, December, 2016)