Background and Aim: Alcohol Dependence Syndrome has deleterious consequences not only on the patient with but also members of his family. The psychopathology in wives patients is a largely neglected area psychiatric research. Aim present study was to evaluate frequency nature disorders Syndrome.
 Materials Methods: A total 177 wives, 100 77 Bipolar Affective Disorder- current episode mania...

Objective: Metacognitions are vulnerability factors in predicting development of psychological disorders especially Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and dysthymia, which are highly comorbid. Many studies have shown that GAD and dysthymia have similar underlying metacognitive factors but the results are contradictory. The aim of present research was to test this hypothesis by using new instrum...

This study examined transdiagnostic features of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and dysthymia in an outpatient clinical sample. Fifteen patients who met DSM-IV criteria for GAD and twenty-one patients who met DSM-IV criteria for dysthymia but who did not have comorbid anxiety disorder were evaluated utilizing the Rorschach. Salient clinical variables were then compared. Results showed that p...

OBJECTIVE Individuals visiting a primary care practice were screened to determine the prevalence of depressive disorders. The DSM-IV-TR research criteria for minor depressive disorder were used to standardize a definition for subthreshold symptoms. METHOD Outpatients waiting to see their physicians at 3 community family medicine sites were invited to complete a demographic survey and the Prim...

BACKGROUND Patients with depression are at greater risk of cardiac death in the first few months after a myocardial infarction (MI). This study was performed to determine whether depression affects adherence to recommendations intended to reduce the risk of cardiac events after an MI. METHODS All consenting patients admitted to a university-affiliated teaching hospital during an 18-month peri...

Dysthymia is an under-diagnosed mood spectrum disorder that is almost as common as major depression and, if left untreated, has a chronic course which can impact negatively on a patient’s quality of life. Whilst symptoms are not as numerous or severe as in major depressive disorder (MDD), morbidity associated with dysthymia can be serious owing to the long duration of the distressing syndrome. ...

BACKGROUND The studies on monocytic function during depression are controversial. A better knowledge of affective disorders may improve the differential diagnosis of depression subtypes. Our goals are to examine if there are differences in monocytic function in patients with major depression and dysthymia. METHOD Twenty-two depressed patients (12 dysthymia and 10 major depression) and 15 heal...

conclusion the results of this study show that adding mbct to pharmacotherapy in treatment of dysthymic patients can cause significant improvement in depression symptoms and mindfulness skills in patients compared to pharmacotherapy alone. results in this study, no statistically significant differences were found between the two groups regarding the demographic characteristics. the mean differe...