despite the fact that most people are worried about having high cholesterol levels, low cholesterol may actually be associated with adverse behavioral effects such as aggression and depression. the aim of this survey was to show whether there was a significant relationship between cholesterol and triglyceride with depression. the level of cholesterol and triglyceride was measured in 80 depresse...

the current study was performed with the aim of investigating the diagnostic utility of bender-gestalt test-ii (bdt-ii) in two groups of patients with major depression and brain-damage, and to compare them with normal individuals. this was a causal-comparative study. major depressive patients (n=30), brain-damaged patients (n=30) and normal subjects (n=30) were compared using bdt-ii in copying,...

background: depression and anxiety had negative effects on the quality of life of cancer patients, thus hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) is a useful instrument for screening these problems. this research was performed to assess the prevalence of their anxiety and depression. methods: from 2012-2013, one hundred fifty patients with recent diagnosis of different cancers in babol, iran...

This case probes the potential temporal relationship between pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET) and depression. patient has chronic symptoms of depression with no formal diagnosis until within a year doctors suspecting her cancer. An excisional biopsy confirmed grade 1 (NET) in pancreas, postoperative psychiatric consultation continued elevated report presents an illustrative example ongoin...

recent research from a number of clinical trials has shown that transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy is efficacious, having shown comparable effects on primary anxiety disorder diagnoses as traditional diagnosis-specific cbt, and highly economical for treatment providers. however, a majority of anxiety disorder patients present with two or more “comorbid” diagnoses at once. given that t...

background and aims: depression disorder is one of the most common diseases, but the diagnosis is widely complicated and controversial because of interventions, overlapping and confusing nature of the disease. so, keeping previous patients’ profile seems effective for diagnosis and treatment of present patients. use of this memory is latent in synthetic neuro-fuzzy algorithm. present article in...

Lorr, Klett, and McNair (1963) noted that factorial studies limited to patients of one diagnostic category exhibited the 'effects of restriction in various sources of population variance and limitations on defining variables'. Factor analyses of depressive symptoms have for the most part utilized patients whose clinical diagnosis was depression (Hamilton and White, 1959; Hamilton, 1960; Overall...