objectives: according to growing of aged population in iran and also high prevalence of psychiatric disorders in this group, assessment of demographical and epidemiological studies of psychiatric disorders in subjects 59 years or older in ekbatan district of tehran was the aim ofthis study. methods & materials: the subjects were chosen randomly from 1422 subjects 59 years or older, who were liv...

Objective: Nicotine addiction is a common health problem in psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects rTMS on comorbid nicotine patients receiving recurrent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) therapy for major depressive disorder (MDD) and obsessive-compulsive (OCD). Method: Data 32 (23 MDD, 9 OCD) were evaluated retrospectively. We compared Hamilton Depressi...

Objective: Up to now, no investigation has applied a complementary approach in terms of the emotional and affective temperament to study Panic Disorder (PD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and healthy controls. Hence the current study aimed to investigate the affective and emotional temperaments among individuals with PD, PTSD, and healthy controls using an integrative temperament scale...

Data from the Children in the Community Study, a prospective longitudinal investigation, were used to investigate the association of personality disorder (PD) traits, evident by early adulthood, with risk for the development of unipolar depressive disorders by middle adulthood. Antisocial, borderline, dependent, depressive, histrionic, and schizotypal PD traits, identified between ages 14 and 2...

Background: As much there have been limited number of studies which examined misdiagnosis bipolar disorder, it is so difficult to say that are enough systematic research identify the diagnostic rate disorder. On other hand, we did not find any in Turkey. For this reason, wondered what situation our country terms Methods: The present study was done at xxx University, School Medicine, Department ...

PURPOSE To investigate the personality disorders (PDs) diagnosed in patients with depressive disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study included a cross-sectional analysis, and was an extension of the Thai Study of Affective Disorder (THAISAD) project. Eighty-five outpatients with depressive disorders were interviewed using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Inventory to assess for depre...

BACKGROUND The Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale (ODSIS) is a brief, five-item measure for assessing the frequency and intensity of depressive symptoms, as well as functional impairments in pleasurable activities, work or school, and interpersonal relationships due to depression. Although this scale is expected to be useful in various psychiatric and mental health settings, the r...

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is composed of three lower-order dimensions, cognitive concerns, physical concerns, and social concerns. We examined the relations between AS dimensions using a more adequate assessment of subscales (ASI-3) than has previously been used, and measures of anxiety and mood disorders as well as suicidal ideation in a sample of 256 (M age = 37.10 years, SD = 16.40) treatment...

Several lines of investigation suggest that obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) may be associated with serotonergic dysfunction. Researchers have also suggested that serotonin plays an important role in the migraine headache process. However, there are few published reports examining the relation between clinical OCD and migraine headache. Researchers have suggested that the migraine headache sy...