Pinhas N Dannon

..The aim of this review is to increase the physicians' awareness towards this entity...

..The aim of this naturalistic follow-up study was to examine the effect of pregnancy as a predicting factor of relapse in patients with panic disorder (PD)...

..The aim of the study is to compare the effectiveness of sustained-release bupropion versus naltrexone in the treatment of PG...

..Current recommendations for the prevention of relapse and improvement of long-term outcome will be reviewed...

..These findings have supported the observation that pathological gambling is associated with anxiety and mood spectrum disorders as well as addictive disorders...

..These findings have supported the observation that PG is strongly associated with both mood and anxiety disorders as well as substance abuse. The aim of the study is to evaluate the comorbid psychiatric diagnoses in our sample...

..A review of the proposed etiologies in the literature is summarized, together with recommendations for physicians and mental health officials...

..The aim of the study is to assess the rate of relapse in treatment-responder pathological gamblers after discontinuation of the active treatment...

..The aim of this long-term, naturalistic comparison study was to compare 4 SSRIs with respect to tolerability and treatment outcome of PD. Outcome measures included relapse rates and adverse effects...

..The differences in performance between pathological gamblers and healthy controls on the neurocognitive tasks could be due to addictive behavior features rather than impulsive behavior...

..Paroxetine pharmacotherapy has been recommended to be continued for 1 year as specified in the treatment guidelines set by the American Psychiatric Association in the treatment of panic disorder...

..7, P < 0.08, df = 2.31). Topiramate and fluvoxamine monotherapy may be effective in the treatment of pathologic gambling...

..The aim of the present neuroimaging study was to explore the relationship between frontal cortex function and gambling severity in pathological gamblers...

..The subjects suffering from depression and anxiety also showed higher levels of suicidality and other abuse dependencies. In order to confirm these preliminary results larger studies are needed in this field...

..A larger study is needed to confirm these preliminary results...

..Topiramate is currently used for the treatment of patients with affective and compulsive eating disorders. This report documents three kleptomanic patients who responded well to topiramate given either alone or in combination with SSRIs...

..The aim of the study was to compare the treatment of panic disorder in patients with or without cannabis use according to response, relapse and side effects...

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..Our study shows that CBGT produced beneficial results, for it was associated with a reduction in the number and frequency of panic attacks and with an improved feeling of well-being...

..Review of current work in the field suggests that kleptomania is a heterogeneous disorder that shares features of both impulse and addiction disorders as well as affective spectrum disorders...

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..Furthermore, the pattern of psychiatric disorders seen in the first-degree relatives can lead to new insights about the nosology and etiopathology of kleptomania...

..Treatment with anti-addiction drugs seems relevant. Further research is needed to increase our knowledge regarding the etiology of TTM...

..Finally, it is proposed that the existence of possible clinical subtypes of pathological gambling may provide a potential framework for matching the various subtypes with specific pharmacotherapies...

..Further controlled studies with neuroimaging techniques may help to clarify the particular brain mechanisms underlying the impaired decision making process in PGs...

..Pathological gambling is classified as an impulse control disorder in the DSM-IV-TR; however, few studies have investigated the relationship between gambling behavior and impulsive decision-making in time-non-limited situations...

..This controlled study extends previous findings by showing that performance on the Stroop task is impaired in a sample of medication-free pathological gamblers...

..In addition to its potential clinical role, TMS promises to provide insights into the pathophysiology of depression through research designs in which the ability of TMS to alter brain activity is coupled with functional neuroimaging...

..CONCLUSIONS: Patients treated with rTMS do as well as those treated with ECT at the 3- and 6-month follow-up points. These data suggest that the clinical gains obtained with rTMS last at least as long as those obtained with ECT...

..Moreover, our study demonstrates without a doubt that there is no significant difference between the male pathological sports gamblers group and the male/female laypersons group...