Polypharmacy - appropriate, problematic or both?

Solutions to problematic polypharmacy: learning from the expertise of patients.

When is antidepressant polypharmacy appropriate in the treatment of depression?

Depression is a serious medical condition that is often only partially improved or completely unchanged after standard treatment with antidepressant medications. Various approaches have been developed to treat this subgroup of individuals with 'treatment-resistant' depression; but many individuals continue to live with chronic depressive symptoms that seriously affect their quality of life and ...

Speed Up, Slow Down or Both? Investigating the Contemporary Cities

Speed as a crucial phenomenon of modernism affects individual and collective life of human being and changes the traits of the places people live in. Increasing speed is the demand of the modern era, though on the other side in recent years there is a contrary incline towards slowing down different aspects of life. In view of this, the dualities in between social features of Speed up and slow d...

Problematic Internet use or Internet addiction?

The aim of this paper is to review the gradually evolving body of the literature on Internet addiction. Two schools of thought have emerged: those authors who believe that Internet addiction merits classification as a new or emerging psychiatric disorder in its own right, and those who define certain individuals as having problematic Internet use in relation to specific online activities, such ...

Frames or Objects , or Both ?

This paper discusses the differences and similarities of object-oriented programming systems and frame systems, and advocates the amalgamation of these two kinds of systems. A frame system called BEEF is introduced. It provides, in addition to frame system characteristics, the basic functionality and ease of use of an object-oriented extension of Common Lisp, making it well suited for knowledge...