BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of correlation between sexual dysfunction and depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms among patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and to identify the dimension most predictive of sexual dysfunction. METHODS One-hundred and thirty-five outpatients with MDD were enrolled and were treated with open-label venlafaxine 75 ...

Aim: To evaluate safety and efficacy of a transdermal rotigotine for the treatment of fatigue and quality of life (QOL) in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). This was a multi-sites open-label study of 58 PD patients (male 26, female 32) who met a Japanese PD diagnosis criterion. They received a transdermal rotigotine 4.5 mg/day for 8 weeks. We added a rotigotine on the previous anti-Parkin...

CONTEXT Youth exposure to explicit film violence and sex is linked to adverse health outcomes and is a serious public health concern. The Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA's) rating system's effectiveness in reducing youth exposure to harmful content has been questioned. PURPOSE To determine the MPAA's rating system's effectiveness in screening explicit violence and sex since the ...

BACKGROUND Women's physical and mental ill-health such as stress-related symptoms, depression, pain, hypertension and urogenital health shows a marked increase around the ages 45-55 years. These women are an important group for Primary Health Care (PHC) due to their prevalent symptoms and illnesses. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of somatic, psychological and urogenital sy...

Sexual dysfunction has been reported to be common among women with epilepsy. Controlled studies, quantitative data, and investigations of potentially contributory factors, however, have been few. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if (1) sexual dysfunction is unusually common among women with partial seizures of temporal lobe origin (TLE), and (2) sexual dysfunction varies in re...