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BACKGROUND Symptomatic remission is the optimal outcome in depression. A brief, validated tool for symptom measurement that can indicate when remission has occurred in mental health and primary care settings is unavailable. We evaluated a 7-item abbreviated version (HAMD-7) of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) in a randomized controlled clinical trial of patients with major...

BACKGROUND CHRONOS was a large naturalistic study designed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of agomelatine in the management of patients with major depression in routine clinical practice. METHODS Patients (n=6,276) with a moderate or severe major depressive episode without psychotic symptoms were treated initially as outpatients (80.2%) or in psychiatric facilities (19.8%) in 54 regi...

abstract determining whether a surah is makki or madani is an effective way to understand the surah and to choose the most desirable interpretative traditions. there are many surahs considered makki and a few ones considered madani. on the other hand, there is another group of surahs which their dating can be disputable. surah al-ra’d should be put in this group. by analyzing the traditions rel...

PURPOSE The aim of the study reported here was to examine the safety and effectiveness of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in elderly patients with depression. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty-five depressed elderly patients received rTMS over their left prefrontal cortex for 6 days per week, from Monday to Saturday, for 3 weeks. The rTMS intensity was set at 100% ...

surah al-`adiyat is one of the controversial surahs as to whether it is a meccan or a medinan surah. if we determine the place of revelation, it can help us in better interpreting and understanding of surah. because of the oaths in the opening lines of this surah, some commentators believe that it concerns jihad which became obligatory in medina. there are also narratives that date the revelati...

The aim of this treatment study was to evaluate the therapeutic effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the right parietal cortex in depression. In a double-blind, sham-controlled design ten consecutive sessions of 2 Hz rTMS (inter-pulse interval 0.5 s) at 90% motor threshold to the right parietal cortex (2400 pulses per session) were applied to 34 patients with the ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the influence of depressed patients' preferences and expectations about treatments upon treatment outcome. We investigated whether better clinical outcome in depressed primary care patients is associated with receiving their preferred treatment. METHODS Within a randomized placebo-controlled single-centre 10-week trial with 5 arms (sertraline; placebo; cogniti...