Background: Frozen shoulder is resulting in limb disability and reduction of quality of life but the factors associated with patients’ disability and quality of life is not clear. To assess pain, disability, the quality of life and factors associated with them in patients suffering from frozen shoulder.  Methods: We enrolled 120 patients (37 men and 83 women) with phase-II idiopathic frozen sh...

Method: Five hundred forty-two outpatients with bipolar I (N=360) or 11 (N=182) disorder experiencing a major depressive episode (DSM-IV) were randomly assigned to 8 weeks of quetiapine (600 or 300 mgl day) or placebo. The prima ry efficacy measure was mean change from base))ne to week 8 in the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale total score. Additional efficacy assessments included the H...

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...

Longitudinal studies are permeating clinical trials in psychiatry. Additionally, in the same field, rating scales are frequently used to evaluate the status of the patients and the efficacy of new therapeutic procedures. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to study the psychometric properties of these instruments within a longitudinal framework. In the area of depression, the Hamilton depress...

s: Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effect of psychological counseling combined with auricular plaster therapy in treating the elderly patients with anxiety disorders. Methods: 36 elderly patients with anxiety disorders were divided into experimental group and control group at random, with each group including 18 patients. The control group was only treated with psychological counseling...

BACKGROUND Frozen shoulder is resulting in limb disability and reduction of quality of life but the factors associated with patients' disability and quality of life is not clear. To assess pain, disability, the quality of life and factors associated with them in patients suffering from frozen shoulder. METHODS We enrolled 120 patients (37 men and 83 women) with phase-II idiopathic frozen shou...

conclusions considering the results of this study, lavandula angustifilia infusion has some positive therapeutic effects on depressed patients most importantly decreases mean depression score and might be used alone or as an adjunct to other anti-depressant drugs. results after four weeks of the trial onset, the mean depression score according to the hamilton scale for depression was 17.5 ± 3.5...

BACKGROUND A major depressive episode diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria can be accompanied by symptoms that DSM-IV does not include. These symptoms are sometimes classified as comorbidities. Our study assessed altered behavioral modes during a major depressive episode; ie, if 1 or more modes of behavior operated less or even not at all ("never"), or if the operation of others was more freq...