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: Dissecting the determinants of depressive disorders outcome: an in depth analysis of two clinical cases. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Case report Open Access Dissecting the determinants of depressive disorders outcome an in depth analysis of two clinical cases Alessandro Serretti 1 Raffaella Calati1 Osmano Oasi2 Diana De Ronchi1 and Cristina Colombo3 Address institute of Psychiatry University of Bologna Italy 2Department of Psychology Catholic University Milan Italy and 3Department of Psychiatry San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan Italy Email Alessandro Serretti - Raffaella Calati - Osmano Oasi - Diana De Ronchi - deronchi@ Cristina Colombo - Corresponding author Published 7 February 2007 Received 29 November 2006 . - -7 1- J_. IO I I rtz fl 1AA Al- z I- Accepted 7 February 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6 5 doi l 744-859X-6-5 This article is available from http content 6 l 5 2007 Serretti 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 Clinicians face everyday the complexity of depression. Available pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies improve patients suffering in a large part of subjects however up to half of patients do not respond to treatment. Clinicians may forecast to a good extent if a given patient will respond or not based on a number of data and sensations that emerge from face to face assessment. Conversely clinical predictors of non response emerging from literature are largely unsatisfactory. Here we try to fill this gap suggesting a comprehensive assessment of patients that may overcome the limitation of standardized assessments and detecting the factors that plausibly contribute to so marked differences in .
