background: depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders which has the fourth rank among the most acute problems of public health. this study aims to compare the efficacy of two treatment methods of group pharmacotherapy and group cognitive therapy on the temperament and character dimensions of depressed patients. methods: 45 male patients with depression were assigned randomly in...

Cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) and pharmacotherapy with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) are established monotherapies for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), yet research on their combined efficacy is lacking. Practicing psychologists who treat OCD are thus unable to say definitively whether exposure and ritual prevention would be more successful with concomitant SRI pharmacotherapy. ...

This article provides an empirical review of the elements and efficacy of both pharmacologic and psychosocial treatments for panic disorder. Both monotherapies and combination treatment strategies are considered. The available evidence suggests that both cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and pharmacotherapy (prominently, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or serotonin-norepinephrine reupt...

Over the past 20 years, the previously frowned upon combination of pharmacotherapy and psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy has become common practice because of both findings from the neurosciences that demonstrate hardwired brain development from chronic early stress and trauma and from efficacy studies that show the superiority of combined therapy over either psychotherapy or medication a...

AMA Murawiec S, Danel J. The pathogenesis of anxiety syndromes in the concepts Jaak Panksepp and Joseph LeDoux: implications for pharmacotherapy psychotherapy. Pharmacotherapy Psychiatry Neurology/Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii. 2023;39(1):65-78. doi:10.5114/fpn.2023.127422. APA Murawiec, S., & Danel, (2023). Neurologii, 39(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.5114/fpn.2023.127422 Chicago S...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined as the consistent inability to obtain or maintain an erection for satisfactory sexual relations. An estimated 20-30 million men suffer from some degree of sexual dysfunction. The past 20 years of research on erectile physiology have increased our understanding of the biochemical factors and intracellular mechanisms responsible for corpus cavernosal smooth mu...

Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder but its pathogenesis remains poorly understood. This has limited the development of effective pharmacotherapy. The current therapeutic armamentaria for ET represent the product of careful clinical observation rather than targeted molecular modeling. Here we review their pharmacokinetics, metabolism, dosing, and adverse effect profiles and prop...