A biological perspective on differences and similarities between burnout and depression.

To compare and contrast burnout and depression is not only a conceptual issue, but may deliver important directions for treatment approaches and stabilize the awareness of disease which is essential for affected individuals. Because of the symptomatic overlap, it is a subject of multidimensional research and discussion to find specific signatures to differentiate between the two phenomena or to present evidence that they are different aspects of the same disorder. Both pathologies are regarded as stress-related disorders.

[Central serous chorioretinitis and depressive disorder - a psychosomatic perspective].

Central serous chorioretinitis serosa is repeatedly brought into aetiological considerations with a rather unspecific concept of distress. Depressive disorder represents a specific stressor, which is known in cardiology or diabetology as a significant risk factor. In the present case report, the clinical correlation between a central serous chorioretinitis and a depressive disorder is shown from a psychosomatic point of view, comparing a sequentially-reactive understanding of the disorder complex with a preferable model of simultaneous entanglement.

Estrogen as an adjuvant therapy to antipsychotics does not prevent relapse in women suffering from schizophrenia: results of a placebo-controlled double-blind study.

The expected therapeutic effect of estrogen as an adjunct treatment to antipsychotics in women suffering from schizophrenia for relapse prevention was to be tested under real-life conditions. A multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over study based on an A-B-A-B (and/or B-A-B-A) design was applied. Forty-six hypoestrogenic women with schizophrenia hospitalized for the first time or repeatedly were included in the study.

[Disguised Tourette's syndrome. A contribution to the differential diagnosis on phobia and fear].

Patients with Tourette's syndrome often develop multiple psychopathological symptoms beyond the basic symptoms (motor and vocal tics). We describe a female patient who had been treated over years with cognitive-behavioural methods under the diagnosis of anxiety disorder without success. Her obsessive-compulsive and tic symptoms had been ignored because they had not been reported by the patient, who was accustomed to them.