...Asim Othayq; Abdulwahab Aqeeli Purpose This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of depression and associated risk factors among patients on hemodialysis in Jazan area, Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted on 211 randomly selected hemodialysis patients in Jazan...

...Omar Enzo Santangelo; Sandro Provenzano; Domiziana Giordano; Enrico Alagna; Francesco Armetta; Claudia Gliubizzi; Antonio Terranova; Giuseppe D'Anna; Dalila Barresi; Dimple Grigis; Cristina Genovese; Raffaele Squeri; Alberto Firenze Purpose Depression is a common and serious medical illness...

... the effectiveness of rTMS in the treatment of major depressive disorder in an applied clinical setting (Awakening KC CNI) to assess efficacy and optimize rTMS parameters within clinical practice. A retrospective review of medical records was carried out on patients with major depressive disorder undergoing rTMS...

...Jody Jacobson Wedret; Thanh G. Tu; Doru Paul; Camille Rousseau; Augustin Bonta; Robert G. Bota Depression and insomnia are very significant pathologies in cancer patients as they contribute to the patient's overall cure and quality of life. Moreover, untreated depression and ongoing insomnia...

...Maria Cristina Davila; Brianna Ely; Ann M. Manzardo Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been proven to be efficacious in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). We previously examined the effectiveness of rTMS for MDD in an applied clinical setting, AwakeningsKC...

...Ann M. Manzardo; Brianna Ely; Maria Cristina Davila We previously examined the efficacy of rTMS for major depressive disorder in an applied clinical practice. Clinical response was related to severity of depression as well as the rTMS instrument utilized suggesting a relationship to instrument...

... is crucial, together with regular evaluation of safety and tolerance of the treatment. escitalopram edema depression serotonin skin cutaneous effects © 2018 K. Kontoangelos et al. 2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC...

...Omar Enzo Santangelo; Sandro Provenzano; Dario Piazza; Alberto Firenze The aim of the study was to evaluate depressive symptomatology within the student population of the University of Palermo (Italy). An anonymous online questionnaire was provided to the students of the University of Palermo...

...Ahmet Bulent Yazici; Mine Gul; Esra Yazici; Gazanfer Kemal Gul Sports and physical activity are widely recommended, both as guidelines and in clinical practice, because of their broad range of positive effects on health, depression, anxiety, and psychological well-being. While several studies have...

...Subahani Shaik; Ravi Philip Rajkumar Vasectomy is a commonly performed and relatively safe procedure, with low reported rates of psychological morbidity, though there is some variability across studies. Depression following a vasectomy is relatively infrequent. A married man aged 30 developed...

... epilepsy in this cross-sectional study. Their clinical profile was recorded. Quality Of Life in Epilepsy (QOLIE-31) was used to assess quality of life of our patients. Depression was screened by Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory in Epilepsy (NDDI-E). Among all the clinical variables, only seizure...

.... Depression is more common among men in this population than in the adult male population-at-large. All other measures of mental health functioning that were examined (self-esteem, impulsivity, current life satisfaction, optimism about the future) indicated low rates of mental health problem. Contrary...

... in clinicians unable to prescribe treatment for patients who have capacity but are not providing consent for treatment. We report a case of a patient in the UK with Cotard's phenomenon and severe depression, where the only effective treatment of ECT was restricted due to changes in mental health law. The role...

... measures of sleep quality; second, to examine whether these two techniques have different effects on psychological indicators of PTSD, such as depression and anxiety; and finally, to examine how initial PTSD symptom severity and baseline emotional measures are related to the efficiency of these two...

...Paul L. Plener; Jasmin Grieb; Nina Spröber; Joana Straub; Alexander Schneider; Ferdinand Keller; Michael G. Kölch The Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R) is a widely used instrument for research on depression in minors. A raw score of ?40 has often been used as indicator...

...Jorge Lopez; Robert Hoffmann; Graham Emslie; Roseanne Armitage Sleep disturbances, present in more than 90% of major depressive disorder (MDD) patients, are moderated by sex in adult MDD. In particular, slow-wave electroencephalographic activity (SWA; 0.5-4 Hz) accumulation is low and dissipation...

...John E. Berg Prediction of increased risk of suicide is difficult. We had the opportunity to follow up 20 patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) because of severe depression. They filled in the Antonovsky sense of coherence test (SOC) and Beck depression inventory (BDI) before and after...

... to this is the difficulty in agreeing to what exactly constitutes useful clinical features differentiating, for example, negative symptoms of a true deficit syndrome from features of depression. Two recent papers proposed that the general and specific cognitive features of schizophrenia and major depression result from...

...Dominik Michalski; Stefanie Liebig; Eva Thomae; Susanne Singer; Andreas Hinz; Florian Then Berg Anxiety, depression and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are commonly reported in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and are of great interest for therapeutic approaches. Based...

...Christian Haasen The comorbidity of paraphilia-related disorders and other psychiatric disorders is high, but the paraphilia-related disorder often remains untreated until patients seek help for the comorbid disorder. A case of a patient in Mexico with comorbid paraphilia and depressive disorder...