Preliminary findings suggest that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can have antidepressant effects. We sought to test this further in a parallel-group, double-blind clinical trial with 40 patients with major depression, medication-free randomized into three groups of treatment: anodal tDCS of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (active group - 'DLPFC'); anodal tDCS of the occi...

patients with schizophrenia experience a vast range of cognitive disorders. among these deficits, deficit in attention processes realm can be named. the goal of the current study is the comparison of maintenance of attention in patients with schizophre!1ia, major depression and normal individuals. to do so, 32 schizophrenic patients (!5 acute patients and 17 chronic patients), 32 patients with ...

BACKGROUND Bipolar depression (BD) is a prevalent condition, with poor therapeutic options and a high degree of refractoriness. This justifies the development of novel treatment strategies, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) that showed promising results in unipolar depression. METHODS We describe a randomized, sham-controlled, double-blinded trial using tDCS for refractor...

To provide population-level evidence of the role of current depression on smoking cessation treatment success, we conducted a secondary analysis of data obtained from a large cessation study conducted in over 13,000 smokers. On the basis of self-reported history of depression diagnoses at baseline, participants were divided into four mutually exclusive groups: current/recent depression, recurre...

this current research is a quasi experimental design which is aimed to study the effectiveness of two couple therapies, cognitive behavioral couple therapy (cbct) and emotional focused couple therapy (eft), on depression and some other variables in infertile male factor pairs. the sample includes 30 infertile volunteer pairs from kosar infertility clinic which are placed in an experimental and ...

In this review of the last 5 years' developments in research into depression we focus on recent advances and current controversies. We cover epidemiology and basic science as well as the treatment of depression in adults in all its forms. Depression in , as well as in has been covered in recent Seminars in The Lancet. Depression in adulthood remains a very common and under-treated condition, re...

This paper is a brief review which deals with research findings, clinical issues, and strategies in the pharmacotherapy of clinical depression. The author introduces antidepressants which are currently available in the United States. They include heterocyclic antidepressants (tricyclic antidepressants and second-generation antidepressants), monoamine oxidase inhibitors, lithium, carbamazepine, ...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) report has predicted that major depression will become a key cause of illness-induced disability by the year 2020, second only to ischemic heart diseases. OBJECTIVES/METHODS Although a large number of antidepressant drugs (from monoamine oxidase inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants to dual reuptake inhibitors) are available for treatment of t...