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Post-Stroke Depression and Anxiety: The Role in the Rehabilitation Outcome

Lenzo V*
Patients follow a stroke face off with negative emotional reactions. Depression and anxiety are very common psychiatric symptoms after stroke. A recent meta-analysis has found a prevalence of depression in post-stroke patients of 17.7% [1]. Many studies have focus on depression because post-stroke patients with depression had a worse functional recovery and impairment than patients...

Research Article

Religious Commitment and Quality of Life among a Sample of Iranian Undergraduate Students

Maasomeh Behboodi1, Fatemeh Zeinali1, Maryam Salmanian2* and Mortaza Shamohammadi2
Objective: In the present study we evaluated the relationship between religious commitment and quality of life among undergraduate students. Methods: Two questionnaires including the Religious Commitment Scale, to assess four dimensions of belief, ritual, experience and consequence and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) to evaluate, vitality, physical functioning, bodily pain...

Review Article

Anxiety and Fear from the Perspective of Cingulate Cortex

Brent A. Vogt1,2*
Anxiety and fear share similarities such as a feeling of unease and apprehension but the former is related to unpredictable threats with a distant time frame, while the latter is associated with short duration threats. This review considers these two entities from the perspective of cingulate cortex and shows that they activate different subregions; subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sACC)...

Editorial

Anhedonia: Could it be a Predictive Sign of Frontal Lobe Brain Tumors?

Domenico Chirchiglia*
Anhedonia is defined as the total loss of pleasure. It is a condition present in psychiatric disorders, such as depression, psychosis, psychic alterations related to alcoholism [1]. In these pathologies it is one of many symptoms. Anhedonia is often erroneously considered synonymous with depression....

Review Article

Stressful Life Events and Depression: The Role of Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR)

Amidfar M*
A developing body of evidence shows that stressful life events have a significant causal association with the beginning of major depression episodes. Genetic factors impact on the experience of stressful life events, and these factors are connected...

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