OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of mirtazapine augmentation in patients with sexual dysfunction induced by current selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) treatment. METHODS Forty-nine outpatients in remission from major depressive disorder with SSRI treatment and experiencing treatment-emergent sexual dysfunction were invited to participate and 33 (25 women and 8 men) were included in...

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abstractthe role of sexual – self schema and body imag on women sexual function introduction: the aime of the present study is to investigate the role of sexual self-schema and body image on sexual function of married female nurses....... method: statistical population of the present study consist of all married female nurses of tehran government hospitals. from which 200 individuals were selec...

Background: There is a need to explore the sexual functioning of women with depression as one part sexualityis that it helps in developing an intimate emotional and physical relationship another person, thisrelationship may serve buffer against life stresses. Our aim was study prevalence types sexualdysfunction depressed patients compare them non-depressed women.Materials Methods: A total 270 p...

Objectives: Though negative symptoms (NS) are major contributors to sociooccupational dysfunction in schizophrenia, NS in remitted bipolar disorder (BPD) are little studied. We evaluated the prevalence and correlates of NS and their contribution to sociooccupational dysfunction in remitted BPD. Methods: Ninety remitted BPD patients, receiving only mood stabilizers, were evaluated with the Scale...

The Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) is considered a very useful instrument to assess patients with dementia. The tasks are grouped into fi ve subscales, each one evaluating different cognitive areas, namely: Attention, Initiation/Perseveration (I/P), Construction, Conceptualization and Memory. Objective: To verify the ability of the DRS in discriminating vascular dementia (VaD) patients from health...

The purpose of this research is to develop a morphologically determined scale—the Tomography Dementia Rating scale (TDR) to diagnose AD stages, based on the measurement of the severity of voluminal atrophic changes of the temporal lobes of the brain detected among patients during CT and MRI at various stages of the disease. The research included 140 patients aged 28 79. Test Group comprised 81 ...

The psychometric properties of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders Rating scale (Eaves, 2003) and the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (Gilliam, 1995) were investigated in this study. One hundred thirty-four individuals with autism, other pervasive developmental disorders, or conditions frequently confused with autism participated in the study. The results indicated that, with one exception, the r...

conclusions this study showed that a pneumatic arm tourniquet as an adjunct to ivra provides acceptable analgesia following the deflation of the double- cuff tourniquet for relieving surgical pain. results the mean operation time after the deflation of the double-cuff tourniquet was 20.12 ± 6.1 minutes. moreover, the mean nrs for the post-deflation time was insignificant (nrs = 2), and only one...