Sheehan’s syndrome or Simmond’s disease is a rare endocrine disorder seen in clinical practice. The clinical spectrum is diverse and a high index of suspicion together with a good clinical acumen and proper diagnostic approach helps in early diagnosis and prompt treatment of this endocrinopathy. Sheehan’s syndrome presenting as a major depressive disorder finds less mention in the literature.Th...

objective: to study the prevalence and demographic characteristics of mood disorders among iranian adults. method: in this cross-sectional population-based epidemiological study (age > 18) in iran, 25180 individuals were selected through a randomized cluster sampling method for a diagnosis using the schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia (sads). they were then interviewed at home by...

objective: the aim of this study was to compare the clinical temperaments and characters of iranian patients with major depressive disorder (mdd) with healthy controls method: the study participants included 47 outpatients with major depressive disorder (mdd) and 120 normal controls with no psychiatric disorders. sampling method was convenience. the mdd patients were diagnosed as mdd by a psych...

objective: the aim was to determine how personality of major depressive disorder (mdd) patients is different from that of bipolar ii disorder (biid) patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study, two groups of patients with mdd (47 patients) and biid (45 patients) between 18 and 55 years old were included and compared. the research instrument that subjects answered to was temperament and cha...

objective: thought-action fusion (taf) refers to the tendency to assume incorrect causal relationship between one’s own thoughts and external reality, in which, thoughts and actions are treated as equivalents. this construct is present to development and maintenance of many psychological disorders. the aim of the present study was to predict obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and its types, an...

objective: aim of this experimental study is evaluating the effectiveness of two different approaches towards the treatment of major depressive disorder (mdd): positive-oriented psychotherapy and group cognitive-behavior therapy. methods: eighteen out-patients suffering from major depression were randomly divided into two groups to be treated according to either of these two approaches. both gr...

objective: the present study aims to investigate thought control strategies in generalized anxiety disorder (gad), major depressive disorder (mdd), and the relationship of these metacognitive strategies with trait anxiety, as a construct of emotional vulnerability. methods: 60 patients with diagnosis of gad and mdd and 30 control subjects (nonpatients) were selected from the university students...

background: it is estimated that major depression disorders constitute 8.2% of years lived with disability (ylds) globally. the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) and electroconvulsive therapy (ect) are two relative common interventions to treat major depressive disorders, especially for treatment resistant depression. in this study the cost- effectiveness and cost-utility of r...