Deconstructing violence in acutely exacerbating psychotic patients.

Background: This study examined the proximate causes of psychotic patients' aggression upon the admission to the psychiatric wards of a university and two state hospitals.

Methods: The authors used a semistructured interview to elicit proximate causes of assaults from the assailants and victims. The treating psychiatrists and nurses provided additional information.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in major depressive episode during pregnancy.

Sir: For women diagnosed with Recurrent depressive disorder, pregnancy poses a major treatment challenge. Apart from antidepressants, the most commonly used biological therapeutical method is ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). We believe that similar efficacy can be achieved using rTMS as a safer option with substantially less side effects.