objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of treatment on reducing the additional psychiatric symptoms in a sample of recovered depressed patients. methods: a sample of 354 remitted depressed subjects recruited through community advertisement and clinical practices of psychiatrists and psychotherapists were randomly assigned to mindfulness based cognitive therapy (mbct), c...

background : the present study aimed to determine the relationship between mental disorders and burnout among employees of shiraz university of medical science, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 300 employees were selected as the study sample using random sampling method. symptoms of mental disorder, predictor variables, and burnout were the criterion variables of this study. data w...

conclusions mild traumatic brain injuries despite of the normal ct scan and history of substance abuse are closely related to psychological symptoms. therefore, it is recommended that patients with brain trauma 6 months post-injury and subjects with a history of substance abuse be evaluated for psychological distress to support better rehabilitation. background it is well-known that severe brai...

A case of non-metastatic carcinoid tumour of the cervix is described from a patient without the carcinoid syndrome. The rarity of carcinoid tumour involving gynaecological structures other than the ovaries is discussed and a bried review of carcinoid disease presented.

PIERRE JOUVENTIN, 1 * ANNE CHARMANTIER, 2 MARIE-PIERRE DUBOIS, 1 PHILIPPE JARNE 1 & JOËL BRIED 3 1 Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR CNRS 5175, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France 2 Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK 3 Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas, Centro do IMAR da Universidade dos...

background: non-ulcer dyspepsia (nud) is one of the common gastrointestinal disorders considered as a psychosomatic disorder. the effectiveness of psychological intervention in improving symptoms of this disease remains unclear. the objective of this study was to assess the effects of add-on stress management training on symptoms of nud. materials andmethods: in a randomized clinical trial, 28 ...

MARK BOLTON 1,2 *, ANDREA L. SMITH 3 , ELENA GÓMEZ-DÍAZ 4 , VICKI L. FRIESEN 3 , RENATA MEDEIROS 1 , JOËL BRIED 1 , JOSE L. ROSCALES 4 & ROBERT W. FURNESS 5 1 Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, 9901-862 Horta, Portugal 2 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK Headquarters, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds, SG19 2DL, UK 3 Department of Biology, Queen’s University, K...

Background: In a previous study which made comparison between disorder-specific and generic instruments to assess outcome of treatments for depression, the Beck Depression Inventory, Second Edition (BDI-II) seemed be more sensitive change than Inventory Depressive Symptoms- Self Rating (IDS-SR). Methods: A set with longitudinal data from Routine Outcome Monitoring (n=144) were analyzed multilev...