OBJECTIVE Depression affects nearly one in five Americans at some time in their life, causing individual suffering and financial cost. The Internet has made it possible to deliver telemedicine care economically to areas and populations with limited access to specialist or culturally and linguistically congruent care. METHODS This study compared the effectiveness for Hispanic patients of depre...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of brexpiprazole as adjunctive therapy to antidepressant treatments (ADTs) in adults with major depressive disorder (as defined by DSM-IV-TR criteria) and inadequate response to ADTs. METHOD Patients with historical inadequate response to 1-3 ADTs were enrolled. All patients entered a prospective 8-week phase on physician-determined, ...

Resumen original adicciones vol. xx, no x · 2017 The efficacy of Motivational Intervention and CognitiveBehavioral Therapy for Pathological Gambling Eficacia de la intervención Motivacional y la Terapia Cognitivoconductual para el tratamiento del Juego Patológico Anna Garcia-Caballero*, Marina Torrens-Lluch*, Isabel Ramírez-Gendrau*, Gemma Garrido**, Vicenç Vallès*,**, Núria Aragay*. * Unidad d...

Accurate, efficient measurement of disease status has become a key issue in MS clinical practice and research. Despite some perceived problems, the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) remains the most widely used comprehensive measure of impairment. There is also a place for more restricted scales of impairment which focus on some aspects of neurological function in more detail than the EDS...

Patterns of performance on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) have been proposed as useful tools for the identification of children with learning disabilities (LD). However, most of the studies of WISC-R patterns in children with LD have been plagued by the lack of a typically achieving comparison group, by failure to measure individual patterns, and by the lack of a ...

Abstract Introduction With increasing prevalence of sleep problems in the general population, a question arises on whether standardized clinical assessment shows results exceeding cut-off thresholds healthy subjects who do not report any complaint. The aim this ongoing study is to assess sample good quality, for each gender age groups 18-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-75 years old. Methods Up now ...

BACKGROUND The uncertainty about long-term effects of childbirth presents MS patients with dilemmas. METHODS Based on clinical data of 330 female MS patients, the long-term effects of childbirth were analysed, using a cross-sectional study design. Four groups of patients were distinguished: (1) without children (n = 80), (2) with children born before MS onset (n = 170), (3) with children born...

Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) is the most widely used clinical scale to evaluate levels of multiple sclerosis (MS). As MS can lead to disruptions in the regulation of balance and the disability can be evaluated by force platform posturography, we have developed in this study a new strategy to estimate EDSS from posturographic data. 118 volunteers with EDSS ranging from 0 to 4.5 partic...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively characterize the relation between 1-year changes in neurologist ratings of abnormalities as measured by means of the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and changes in observations of functional impairment as measured by means of the Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite (MSFC) in the clinical assessment of multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS One hundred twenty p...

The expanded disability status scale (EDSS) is an ordinal score that measures progression in multiple sclerosis (MS). Progression is defined as reaching EDSS of a certain level (absolute progression) or increasing of one point of EDSS (relative progression). Survival methods for time to progression are not adequate for such data since they do not exploit the EDSS level at the end of follow-up. ...