OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of filiform needle acupuncture for poststroke depression, and to compare acupuncture with the therapeutic efficacy of antidepressant drugs. DATA RETRIEVAL We retrieved data from the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (1979-2012), Wanfang (1980-2012), VIP (1989-2012), Chinese Biomedical Literature (1975-2012), PubMed (1966-2012), Ovid L...

This paper deals a tracking trajectory controller design of a tricycle robot as a non-holonomic system with a piecewise multi-linear (PML) model. The approximated model is fully parametric. Input-output (I/O) dynamic feedback linearization is applied to stabilize PML control system. We also apply a method for a tracking control based on PML models to the tricycle robot. Although the controller ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Antidepressant drugs are frequently used in deliberate self-poisoning resulting in a major risk for the patients due to their cardiac and central-nervous toxicity. In the present study the cases of intoxications consulting our Poison Center should be analysed illustrating recent results and trends about self-poisoning with antidepressants. PATIENTS AND METHODS During ...

CONTEXT Maintenance antidepressant pharmacotherapy in late life prevents recurrent episodes of major depression. The coverage gap in Medicare Part D could increase the likelihood of reducing appropriate use of antidepressants, thereby exposing older adults to an increased risk for relapse of depressive episodes. OBJECTIVES To determine whether (1) beneficiaries reduce antidepressant use in th...

A fatal toxicity index (deaths per million National Health Service prescriptions) was calculated for antidepressant drugs on sale during the years 1975-84 in England, Wales, and Scotland. The tricyclic drugs introduced before 1970 had a higher index than the mean for all the drugs studied (p less than 0.001). In this group the toxicity of amitriptyline, dibenzepin, desipramine, and dothiepin wa...

As it is the case in other psychiatric disorders, etiopathogenic hypotheses of depression have chiefly been shaped by the fortuitous discovery of antidepressive drugs. Reciprocally, these hypotheses have largely influenced later innovation in therapeutic drugs. In this paper, we aimed to study the development of pharmacological treatments through the different neurobiological and molecular mode...

The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in children under 18 inhibitors (SSRIs) in children under 18 years old increased tenfold (from 0.5 to years old increased tenfold (from 0., despite the existence of training and theoretical models existence of training and theoretical models for the treatment of mental disorders that for the treatment of mental disorders that are simila...