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: Is there a dysfunction in the visual system of depressed patients? | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access Is there a dysfunction in the visual system of depressed patients Konstantinos N Fountoulakis 1 Fotis Fotiou2 Apostolos lacovides1 and George Kaprinis1 Address laboratory of Psychophysiology 3rd Department of Psychiatry Aristotle University of Thesssaloniki Greece and 2Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology 1st Department of Neurology Aristotle University of Thesssaloniki Greece Email Konstantinos N Fountoulakis - kfount@ Fotis Fotiou - kfount@ Apostolos Iacovides - kfount@ George Kaprinis - kfount@ Corresponding author Published 29 March 2005 Received 27 January 2005 Accepted 29 March 2005 Annals of General Psychiatry 2005 4 7 doi 1744-859X-4-7 r This article is available from http content 4 1 7 2005 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 The aim of the current study was to identify a possible locus of dysfunction in the visual system of depressed patients. Materials and Methods Fifty Major Depressive patients aged 21-60 years and 15 age-matched controls took part in the study The diagnosis was obtained with the SCAN v . The psychometric assessment included the HDRS the HAS the Newcastle Scales the Diagnostic Melancholia Scale and the GAF scale. Flash Electroretinogram and Electrooculogram were performed in all subjects. The statistical analysis included ANCOVA Student s t-test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient were used. Results The Electro-oculographic findings suggested that all subtypes of depressed patients had lower dark trough and light peak values in comparison to controls p while Arden
