Psychotherapy intervention to reduce depressive symptoms in patients with diabetic foot syndrome.

Aims: Compared to the population as a whole, patients with diabetes mellitus suffer a significantly higher rate of depressive symptoms, especially when they develop complications. Psychotherapy treatments in diabetes mellitus can lead to improvements in both depressive symptoms and glycaemic control. The objective of this study was to investigate whether depressive symptoms can be reduced by psychotherapy treatment delivered as a joint interdisciplinary service to in-patients with diabetic foot syndrome and comorbid depression.

[Depression, anxiety, quality of life and type D pattern among inpatients suffering from diabetic foot syndrome].

Objective: Compared to the population as a whole patients with diabetes mellitus suffer from a significantly higher rate of depressive symptoms, especially when they develop complications. Little is known about psychological strain in patients suffering from diabetic late complications such as the diabetic foot syndrome. In Germany the diabetic foot syndrome causes about 22,000 amputations every year.

Classical conditioning and conditionability of insulin and glucose effects in healthy humans.

We examined whether the effects of intravenously injected insulin and glucose (the physiological endogenous insulin production stimulus) could be classically conditioned in healthy humans. We expected a conditioned blood glucose decrease to a conditioned stimulus (CS) previously paired with insulin and an, albeit lower, blood glucose decrease to a CS paired with glucose injection. In addition, we analyzed glucoregulatory hormone and symptom conditionability.

Classical conditioning of insulin effects in healthy humans.

Objective: Classical conditioning of insulin effects was examined in healthy humans using a placebo-controlled design. This study examined whether subjects who experienced a conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with insulin in the acquisition phase of a conditioning protocol would show a conditioned decrease of blood glucose when receiving the CS with a placebo injection in the test phase.

Methods: Twenty healthy male students were assigned either to group 1, which received insulin (0.

Cognitive function in elderly non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients before and after inpatient treatment for metabolic control.

Cognitive function was measured before and after inpatient treatment for metabolic control in 20 elderly patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Another 20 patients still on the waiting list for this treatment, served as a control group. Glycosylated hemoglobin decreased in both groups.