tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Revisiting the Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar 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: Revisiting the Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar major depression: an exploratory study. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Revisiting the Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar major depression an exploratory study Konstantinos N Fountoulakis 1 Xenia Gonda2 3 Zoltan Rihmer2 Costas Fokas4 and Apostolos lacovides1 Open Access Address rhird Department of Psychiatry Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece 2Department of Clinical and Theoretical Mental Health Kutvolgyi Clinical Center Budapest Hungary 3Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy Semmelweis University Faculty of Medicine Budapest Hungary and 4First Department of Psychiatry Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece Email Konstantinos N Fountoulakis - kfount@ Xenia Gonda - kendermagos@ Zoltan Rihmer - rihmerz@ Costas Fokas - phocas@ Apostolos lacovides - iacovid@ Corresponding author Published 13 November 2008 Received 13 October 2008 A __I . AAAO - J .IA I IOZ I-7AA orov 1 AA Accepted 13 November 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 22 doi I744-859X-7-22 This article is available from http content 7 1 22 2008 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. Abstract Background Important methodological questions still exist concerning the Dexamethasone Suppression Test DST including the possibility of a better way of interpreting it. The aim of the present study was to explore the feasibility of an alternative way of interpreting DST results. Methods A total of 50 patients with major depression aged years old participated in the study. Past and present suicide .