tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Relationship among Dexamethasone Suppression Test, personality disorders and stressful life events in clinical subtypes of major depression: An exploratory study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Relationship among Dexamethasone Suppression Test, personality disorders and stressful life events in clinical subtypes of major depression: An exploratory study. | Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry Primary research BioMed Central Open Access Relationship among Dexamethasone Suppression Test personality disorders and stressful life events in clinical subtypes of major depression An exploratory study KN Fountoulakis 1 A lacovides1 F Fotiou2 M Karamouzis3 A Demetriadou3 and G Kaprinis1 Address 1Lab of Psychophysiology 3rd Department of Psychiatry Aristotle University of Thesssaloniki Greece 2Lab of Clin Neurophysiology 1st Department of Neurology Aristotle University of Thesssaloniki Greece and 3Lab of Biochemistry Aristotle University of Thesssaloniki Greece Email KN Fountoulakis - kfount@ A Iacovides - kfount@ F Fotiou - ffot@ M Karamouzis - kfount@ A Demetriadou - kfount@ G Kaprinis - kaprinis@ Corresponding author Published 14 December 2004 Received 27 November 2004 __Ì1_ -. - .ir I loiiuir I r Accepted 14 December 2004 Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2004 3 15 doi 186 1475-2832-3-15 This article is available from http content 3 1 15 2004 Fountoulakis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Background The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between dexamethasone suppression test personality disorder stressful life events and depression. Material Fifty patients 15 males and 35 females aged years suffering from Major Depression according to DSM-IV criteria entered the study. Method Diagnosis was obtained with the aid of the SCAN v and the IPDE. Psychometric assessment included the HDRS HAS the Newcastle Scale version 1965 and 1971 the Diagnostic Melancholia Scale the Personality Deviance Scale and the GAF scale. The