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psychometric evaluation of Eating Disorders

fluoxetine1 and beyond, Kiev

Personality and Temperament in Bipolar Disorders

Residential Treatment for Eating Disorders

Kyiv(Ukraine)13th conference of Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry
June 10th-13th 2010
Organizzatore:: Bridging Western and Eastern Psychiatry 
Inizio: giovedì 10 giugno 2010 alle ore 18.30
Fine: domenica 13 giugno 2010 alle ore 13.30
Luogo: hospital’s Assembly Hall.
Indirizzo: Cosack Road
Telefono: 380676759236
We are privileged to inform you that another conference dedicated to scientific and cultural exchange between Eastern and Western psychiatry is to be held in 2010 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The more detailed information will be given in the next announcements. Considering the great interest of Ukrainian psychiatrists, and upon agreement with the Head Physician of Kyiv City Psychiatric Hospital, Professor Vyacheslav Mishiyev the Conference will be held in the Hospital’s Assembly Hall.
On behalf on the Organizing Committee,
Alexander Filts, Taras Dasho, Vyacheslav Mishiyev

In the last years a variety of anecdotal studies suggested that treatment with selective sertraline inibitors (SSRIs) (paroxetine, sertraline, citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine) may induce suicidal behaviours.
Taking into account all methodological difficulties in studying suicidal behaviour in a population of depressed patients (by definition with higher suicide risk than general population), a revision of the literature on this topic ha recently been published. This study finally allows to establish some firm points on the matter: Leggi il seguito »

Control trials show that fluoxetine is effective in Eating Disorders, particularly in bulimia nervosa. Despite the relative paucity of evidence other selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) than fluoxetine are commonly used to treat bulimia nervosa in clinical practice. Sertraline is one of the SSRIs being used in Eating Disorders with binging and purging behaviors. Available evidence show promising data about the effect of sertraline on eating disorder’s psychopatology, but there seem to be contrasting data about sertraline’s effect on body weight: There is a case reports of 5 cases of sertraline use in Binging-Purging Type Anorexia (AN BP) (G. Frank, W. H. Kaye, M. D. Marcus 2001) and there’s an open controlled study on eleven cases of Restricter Type Anorexia (AN R) (Santonastaso P, Friederici S, Favaro A. 2001) where the authors suggest that sertraline may have particular effectiveness in terms of weight restoration. On the other and hand there are a few studies on the efficacy of Sertraline in eating disorder symptoms associated with weight loss in BN and in Binge Eating Disorder (BED) (Sloan et al 2004 ; Milano et al 2004, Carter et al, 2003; Leombruni et al 2006).

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