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Ed. Academiei Române, 2016, 376 pagini

By the nature of specific clinical manifestations, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a unique psychiatric nosology, requiring a distinct approach to treatment. The currently existing debate in the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic...

Background: In Romania there are very few national studies of the stigma associated with depression1. The psychiatric health care system is mainly concentrated on psychiatric hospitals with few ambulatory...

Objective. This paper aims to describe trends in diagnostic data in discharged patients from a regional child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit in Romania, over a 25-year period (1990-2014). Method. ...

Many authors consider that placebo history is in fact the history of medicine and this is probably true to a large extent. The placebo effect is still extremely used...

Abstract There are an increasing number of evidences that suggests that the immune system and inflammatory processes can contribute to MDD pathogenesis in a significant proportion. In this article,...

Cognitive impairment was considered for a long time to be part of depression and it was expected to disappear as other mood symptoms improved with treatment. Because of this...

Introduction: Literature data suggest that a longer duration of untreated psychosis or discontinuities in antipsychotic treatment impair...

The central nervous system has a bidirectional communication with the immune system by many mechanisms that could link depression with an increase of the inflammation markers like C reactive...

BACKGROUND: One of the most discussed adverse effect of antipsychotics is hyperprolactinemia. Dopamine antagonists block the D2 receptors of the lactotroph cells and prevent inhibition of...

Online dictionaries provide a suggestive translation for the burnout concept: „The tubes burned out easily and had to be constantly replaced...”.This is the sequence of events that leads to...

Anders Breivik, the norwegian terrorist offender has captured the attention of the international community not only for his horrific acts but also due to the psychiatric scientific discussions created...

Contrary to the stigmatizing perception, alcohol dependence is not a mark of moral decay, but the result of combining environmental, social, cultural and especially biological factors, family studies finding...

Asperger Disorder is influenced in its evolution by social factors such as: Anxiety, Self-esteem and Aggression. Anxiety can manifest itself in different ways based on the life experience of...

Depressive disorder represents the leading cause of disability worldwide. An increasing body of evidence suggests that patients presenting psychological distress and depression show alterations in immunological markers. The aim...