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However, these findings may not be because depressed people have less illusions than nondepressed.

The judgment of predictability in depressed and nondepressed college students.

Prozac in nondepressed people can produce a feeling of generalized well-being.

Both depressed and nondepressed participants were found to be strongly positively biased, which does not go in line with the hypothesis.

The study found that depressed students achieved at grade level in reading and math, but received lower grades for effort than nondepressed students.

Also, the children of depressed parents are likely to develop depression and anxiety disorders sooner than the children of nondepressed parents.

A distinct period of elevated or irritable mood occurs in which the mood is clearly different from a regular nondepressed mood.

Hypomania is an elevated or irritable mood that is clearly different from a regular nondepressed mood and can last for a week or more.

One surprising finding in Dr. Melville's study was that depressed women were 148 percent more likely to be affected than nondepressed women were.

Depression has long been suspected of reducing the body's immunities; now a study suggests that depressed smokers have a higher risk of cancer than nondepressed smokers.

They compared a group of clinically depressed patients with supposedly normal people and found that the nondepressed group had an exaggerated opinion of their abilities and social skills.

Wellisch DK, Lindberg NM: A psychological profile of depressed and nondepressed women at high risk for breast cancer.

In the first six months after a heart attack, a depressed person's chances of dying are four times higher than a nondepressed person's, even if they have the same heart damage.

Kuiper NA, Derry PA. "Depressed and nondepressed content self-reference in mild depressives".

You might not be as responsive to a child's needs, and you may not be as positive as a nondepressed mom, but you have no reason to feel guilty.

The depressed subjects showed significantly more evidence of deterioration in two areas of the brain stem, the locus ceruleus and the substantia nigra, than the nondepressed subjects, the researchers found.

"If your partner is depressed," Drs. Rosen and Amador said, "your marriage is nine times more likely to end in divorce than if you were married to a nondepressed person."

Dunning and Story (1991) have shown that when applied to real world settings, depressed individuals are less accurate in their predictions about the future and more overconfident than their nondepressed counterparts.

For reasons that the researchers can only guess at, the depressed children of depressed parents also were less likely than the depressed children of nondepressed parents to seek treatment for their problems.

In a later experiment Dr. Wenzlaff found that, given a choice of topics to use to distract themselves, depressed people chose depressing or upsetting topics far more often than did nondepressed people.

Although it has not been established that treating depressed parents has a positive effect on their children, it is reasonable to assume that a nondepressed person is likely to be better able to cope with a child's problems.

"This drug has been studied in 9,000 patients, in depressed and nondepressed healthy people, and we have not been able to discern any signal between duloxetine and suicide or suicidal ideation," Mr. Smith said.

Depressed individuals have lower levels of serotonin than nondepressed individuals, and antidepressant medications such as SSRIs (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) are often prescribed in an attempt to elevate serotonin activity.

Judgment of contingency and recall of feedback studies produced very small depressive realism effects owing to biases in opposing directions in both depressed and nondepressed groups (a negative bias in the former and positive bias in the later).

However, when replicating the findings Msetfi et al. (2005, 2007) found that the overestimation of control in nondepressed people only showed up when the interval was long enough, implying that this is because they take more aspects of a situation into account than their depressed counterparts.