BACKGROUND This paper presents an idiographic approach to evaluate the self concept and the self-object-relationship of patients suffering from affective disorders. METHODS Significant dimensions of the personality and the object relations of 127 depressive patients and 34 orthopaedic patients were investigated with the repertory grid-technique. The self concept and the object relations were ...

Study objectives were to develop a treatment manual for a family-focused intervention for depressed school-aged children, evaluate its feasibility and acceptability, and complete an initial open trial to examine treatment effects. Nine young people meeting criteria for depression (major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, or depression not otherwise specified), completed a 12-week family i...

s | 77 tasks was compared between before and after escitalopram administration. Methods: The subjects were 10 depressive outpatients (40.2 ± 7.6 years old) attending Kurume University Hospital. HAM-D was used to evaluate symptoms. Oxy-Hb value during the tasks were measured at bilateral recording points (22 on each side) using a multi-channel NIRS system. The subjects were instructed to phonat...

s | 77 tasks was compared between before and after escitalopram administration. Methods: The subjects were 10 depressive outpatients (40.2 ± 7.6 years old) attending Kurume University Hospital. HAM-D was used to evaluate symptoms. Oxy-Hb value during the tasks were measured at bilateral recording points (22 on each side) using a multi-channel NIRS system. The subjects were instructed to phonat...

AIM To examine the evidence on the association between cannabis and depression and evaluate competing explanations of the association. METHODS A search of Medline, Psychinfo and EMBASE databases was conducted. All references in which the terms 'cannabis', 'marijuana' or 'cannabinoid', and in which the words 'depression/depressive disorder/depressed', 'mood', 'mood disorder' or 'dysthymia' wer...

O B V ti Vt'e cvaluateti tht; effccli\'eness of [laroxetine and Problem-Soh'ing treatment for Priniarv' Care (PST-PC) for patients with minor tiepressif>ii or dysthymia. S I U D Y D E S I G N This was an 11-week randomized placebo-controlled tnal conducted in priniaiy care practices in 2 commLinilies (Lebanon, .Ml, and Seattle. Wash). PaKsetine (n-80) or |ilacebo (n=81) theni[:iy was .stalled a...

To test the hypothesized anger-mediated relation between maternal depression and escalation of physical discipline, 122 economically disadvantaged mothers were assessed for current and lifetime diagnoses of depression using the Current Depressive Episode, Past Depression, and Dysthymia sections of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and a measure of current depressive symptoms, ...

INTRODUCTION Persistent depressive disorder (PDD) introduced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) 5 as a novel diagnostic category represents a consolidation of two separate DSM-IV categories, chronic major depressive disorder (MDD) and dysthymic disorder. The present study aims to investigate the frequency and clinical as well as socio-demographic correlates of PD...

Introduction. Psychiatric problems and stresses may deteriorate the prognosis of patients with IHD. So evaluating their frequency possibly will promote our perspective regarding their vital importance in the field of consultation-liaison psychiatry. Method and Materials. One hundred and one (101) patients with IHD were interviewed in CCU of a general hospital by a psychiatrist to find whether t...

BACKGROUND Personalized medicine aims to identify which characteristics of an individual predict the outcome of a specific treatment, in order to get a better match between the individual and the treatment received. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials comparing two treatments directly in a group of patients with a specific characteristic. METHODS We searche...