This study aimed to evaluate the effect of psychotic therapy on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) complicated with anxiety-depression disorder by Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD), Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA), COPD Assessment Test (CAT) and modified British Medical research Council (mMRC). Thirty-five patients with COPD were evaluated by pulmonary physicians with CAT a...

This study was designed to examine the antidepressant effect of celecoxib (200 mg/day) augmentation of sertraline in the treatment of female patients with first episode of major depression over 8 weeks of therapy. Thirty female outpatients diagnosed with first episode of major depression, were recruited for this study. Participants were randomly assigned into two equal groups receiving either s...

In this work, an efficient method for constructing a complete integral of the geodesic Hamilton-Jacobi equation on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with simply transitive groups motions is suggested. The based using special transition to canonical coordinates coadjoint orbits group motion. As non-trivial example, we consider problem in McLenaghan-Tariq-Tupper spacetime. An essential feature example ...

Background: Methadone Maintenance Treatment is a useful method for opioid dependents, which results in harm reduction and increased quality of life in opioid dependents. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in addicts is higher than in the general population which can interfere with the course and treatment of substance dependents and decrease the efficacy of treatment. Methods: This descrip...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to find if systemic family therapy (SFT) does work in anxiety and depression with epilepsy in adolescents (ADAE). METHODS 104 adolescents with epilepsy, aged 13-20 years old, were included from December 2009 to December 2010, the enrolled patients were with anxiety [Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) score ≥14 points] or depression [Hamilton Depression Scale (HA...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate cognitive function and affective disorder in elderly patients with symptomatic vertebrobasilar artery stenosis (SVAS) after stent-assisted angioplasty (SAA) and to explore the potential mechanism. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study subjects were 26 elderly SVAS patients who were non-responsive to pharmacotherapy and received SAA (study group) and 30 patients rec...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of the fixed combination of black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) and St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) extracts in women with climacteric complaints with a pronounced psychological component. METHODS In this double-blind randomized placebo-control study, 301 women experiencing climacteric complaints with psychological symptoms were treated with ethanol...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.10.007 0022-1694/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Watershed Hydrology Group, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada. Tel.: +1 647 239 5138; fax: +1 416 287 7279. E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Wellen). Christopher Wellen a,⇑, George B. Arhonditsis , Tanya ...