BACKGROUND We investigated the application of a predictive nursing education process on the degree of comfort and quality of life for cancer patients. METHODS A total of 168-cancer patient in Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China between June 2014 and June 2016 were enrolled and admitted for surgery or radiotherapy/chemotherapy treatment. Patients were ...

Methods 72 inpatients and outpatients with MD, diagnosed by the ICD-10, were randomly divided into three groups with three different treatments: combination of manualacupuncture and paroxetine (23 cases); combination of electro-acupuncture and paroxetine (32 cases); and paroxetine only (17 cases) for 6 weeks. Two statistical analyzing methods, intention to treat (ITT) and per protocol (PP), wer...

Background: Some clinical studies have reported the alteration of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) level before and after the antidepressant treatments in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). We evaluated serum BDNF and GDNF levels before and after the 12-week antidepressant treatments in MDD outpatients. Methods: Se...

Background: Some clinical studies have reported the alteration of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) level before and after the antidepressant treatments in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). We evaluated serum BDNF and GDNF levels before and after the 12-week antidepressant treatments in MDD outpatients. Methods: Se...

Pattern recognition approaches, such as the Support Vector Machine (SVM), have been successfully used to classify groups of individuals based on their patterns of brain activity or structure. However these approaches focus on finding group differences and are not applicable to situations where one is interested in accessing deviations from a specific class or population. In the present work we ...

Objective. The general objective of this study was to analyze the perception and attitude of Clinical varicocele patients treated for infertility at the Shafa Hospital of Kerman, Iran. Method. This is a case control study of 62 infertile patients with Clinical varicocele, they invited to participate to a survey by demographic and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) questionnaires prior to t...

We report on a wide program of tests of the new conception Hama-matsu photomultiplier R5900. Fifteen of such photomultipliers have been characterized in Pisa testing their main parameters with a dedicated setup. Such a test program has been carried out in the framework of the study of a realistic prototype of the future ATLAS tile hadronic calorimeter (TILECAL).

Objective: To investigate the effect of treatment with Escitalopram on attentional bias in PD using an ERP dotprobe task of facial expression. Method: Subjects included 25 patients with PD, and 25 controls. Psychopathology was rated in patients with the HAMA at baseline, after 8-week treatments with Escitalopram. EEG was recorded at Oz when participants perform dot-probe task of facial expressi...

Sixty-eight bipolar patients in remission on lithium prophylaxis with adequate serum lithium levels were cross-sectionally studied to assess the relation of certain psychosocial variables (life events, social support and daily hassles) with psychopathology and psychosocial functioning. The daily hassles and number of life events were found to have significant positive correlation with Hamilton ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the influence of cytokines on anxious-depressive manifestations in fibromyalgia (FM) patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study comprised 56 women (50.5±7.8 years) with FM and 32 healthy female controls (39.65±9.24 years). Psychiatric symptoms were analyzed using the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) and the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS), while pain was assess...