objectives: culture may place a differential emphasis on particular emotions. the aim of this study is to find the most frequent symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder in tehran. method: 509 patients were recruited from 5 treatment settings. the sample was used from the project of assessing psychometric properties of cidi in the iranian population. the patients were evaluated by co...

conclusions the initial assumption of a relationship between vitamin d and high prevalence of seasonal affective disorder in winter was based on the high prevalence of depression on high latitudes. although some studies have shown an association between depression and vitamin d deficiency, it still cannot be indisputably concluded that augmenting the levels of vitamin d alone alleviate depressi...

abstract background the purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of major depressive and anxiety disorders in hemophilic and major beta thalassemic patients related to education of their mothers as a family’s agent. materials and methods a case-control study was performed on 34 major beta thalassemic patients. for each patient the control group was selected and matched (with age and s...

The potential therapeutic value of electricity to treat neuropsychiatric disorders has been known for a long time. However, it is only recently that it has been successfully applied to these clinical conditions. Two of the most promising neuromodulation techniques are the deep brain stimulation (DBS) and the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). DBS uses a high-frequency stimulation that cau...

Family, twin and adoption studies have provided major evidence for the role of genetics in numerous psychiatric disorders including obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. As the search for patterns of inheritance and candidate genes of these complex disorders continues, we review relevant findings from q...

OBJECTIVE: Psychophysiological stress profile examination is useful to quantify the level of individual stress reactivity. The aim of this study is to find differences between healthy subjects and subjects with psychopathological features. METHODS: We have recruited 20 healthy subjects, aged between 25 and 40 years. Subjects with a history of psychopathological episodes, epilepsy, head injuries...

People: 668 people (aged 18–45 years) with a diagnosed personality disorder (Diagnostic Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders), or major depressive disorder (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders-patient version). Included personality disorders were: schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive. Exclusions: acute substance intoxication or withdrawal; acti...

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...