a prolonged slump or downturn in the business cycle, marked by a high level of unemployment
Wiktionary Definition for: Depression
cattag geography an area that is lower in topography than its surroundings
cattag psychology in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future
cattag psychology in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide
cattag meteorology an area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes
cattag economics a period of major economic contraction
Ex: ''The Great '''Depression''''' (US history)
cattag biology physiology a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation
This paper investigates the institutional causes of the Japanese Depression in the 1990s in comparison to those of the America Great Depression in the 1930s. The Japanese Depression has two similarities to the American Depression. (1) Both depressions followed the bubble economy. (2) The decades of the 1930s and 1990s...
Depression is a somewhat negative feeling triggered by reactions to bad events occurred in the past. It creeps in individuals and affects their state of mind. Under a state of depression, an individual cannot concentrate on work at hand. Depression in an employee at the workplace costs dearly to the...
Alex Filonov submits: I've been afraid of GD 2.0 for more than a year. I wrote about it in multiple entries of my blog:Moral Hazard, Fairness And Other BullshitDepression: Great Or Not So GreatGreat Depression v2.0: Missing Piece Of The PuzzleGreat Depression v2.0: Reason For OptimismGD 2.0: Jim, We...
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET) and GlaxoSmithKline GSK today jointly announced a series of roundtable seminars for employers to share strategies about managing depression in the workplace. Depression is among the top five health-related issues that have a significant impact on employee productivity. These seminars are designed to give...
Sep 19, 2006 (Lawyers Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Depression is a serious problem for the legal profession. The Inaugural Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture, jointly hosted by the faculties of law at the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology, Sydney,...
This paper presents a dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium study of the causes of the international 'Great Depression'. It uses a fully articulated model to assess the relative contributions of deflation/monetary shocks, which are the most commonly, cited shocks for the Depression, and productivity shocks. It finds that productivity is the...
Tyler, Gus Forward 05-12-2000 TYLER, TOO: Congress Courts a Depression The Republican Congress and the Democratic president have taken a giant step forward to hasten the coming of a global depression. In their own minds, they may really believe that...
WASHINGTON AFP — Depression and other mental troubles are on the rise among Latin American women immigrants to the United States, as they battle economic woes and try to bridge the cultural gap, experts say. "If you control for socio-economic factors, Latinos have the same rate of depression as...
At the risk of sounding like Chicken Little, I am going to describe the economic situation in plain English. The United States is flirting with a low-grade depression, one that may last for years unless the government takes decisive action to overcome it. This would most likely...
Devin Hobbes submits: I previously wrote about how we got into this mess here. A number of articles have since sprung up, comparing 1929 and the 1930s to now, and arguing that we shouldn't be that worried. Things will be tough, they say, but they won't be depression tough. I...
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Aetna (NYSE:AET) today unveiled the Reawakening Center, a new online screening and information tool designed to shed light on depression, while seeking to educate people who think they suffer from depression as to whether they might benefit from professional help.
In common usage deflation is generally considered to be "falling prices". But there is much more to it than that. Often people confuse deflation with disinflation or with Depression (as in "the Great Depression"). These three terms are related but not synonymous. It explain about what are the causes...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) announced today that its KinetraR Dual-Channel Neurostimulator and leads were used in a successful feasibility study of patients suffering from treatment-resistant depression. The study, published in the March 3 edition of the journal Neuron saw a strong and sustained reduction in depression in four of...
PRINCETON, N.J. -- "The financial crisis has made Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's book ESSAYS ON THE GREAT DEPRESSION a hot seller...Bernanke, a former Princeton University economist, is considered the pre-eminent living scholar of the Great Depression. He is practicing today what he preached in his book: Flood the system...
Will Debt Drive Us to Depression? | BTalk AustraliaRE: Will Debt Drive Us to Depression? | BTalk AustraliaI think this is scarily accurate - you can not live on credit forever no matter what the debt free government may say (as all the debt is held by consumers!) I am...
Depression is among the most disabling and costly illnesses in the world. Despite good short-term efficacy outcomes in the treatment of depression, long-term outcomes remain disappointing. This article examines the substantial psychiatric, medical, functional, and economic costs associated with not achieving remission. Available pharmacoeconomic data and randomized, controlled clinical trials...
Many caregivers with chronically ill relatives suffer from depression. However, the relationship of depression to other outcomes of chronic care-giving remains unclear. This study tested a hypothesized model which proposed that hours of care, stressful life events, social support, age and gender would predict caregivers' outcomes through perceived caregiver stress....
The Great Depression Once upon a time there was The Great Depression TGD. No, this wasn't a sinkhole in Florida. And no, it wasn't the mother of invention that spawned Zoloft and Prozac. It was THE GREAT DEPRESSION where the stupidity of the economy managers worldwide succumbed to the...
ARLINGTON, Va., March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Psychiatric Association APA commends the Kansas City region for launching a bold and innovative depression initiative: "Depression in the Workplace: What Does It Mean to Our Community?" A town hall meeting on March 29, sponsored by the Greater Kansas City...
