Background The relatively recent introduction of biological agents to treat psoriasis presents
clinicians with the need to objectively compare and contrast these agents to allow more …

Medical research is widely thought to have a fundamentally therapeutic orientation, in spite
of the fact that clinical research is thought to be ethically distinct from medical care. We need …

Meta-strategic Knowledge (MSK) is a sub-component of metacognition that is defined in the
present study as general, explicit knowledge about thinking strategies. In the present study …

Background The evaluation of research output, such as estimation of the proportion of
treatment successes, is of ethical, scientific, and public importance but has rarely been …

The conventional approach of choosing sample size to provide 80% or greater power
ignores the cost implications of different sample size choices. Costs, however, are often …

At last–a new edition of the highly acclaimed book Clinical Trials in Psychiatry This book
provides a concise but thorough overview of clinical trials in psychiatry, invaluable to those …

Current literature suggests that therapeutic misconception–a belief by participants in a
clinical trial that they are in fact simply being given clinical care–is common, especially …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of the effect of placebo
medication plus accompanying medical management in the treatment of alcohol …

Psychoanalysis has had to defend itself from a barrage of criticism throughout its history.
Nevertheless, there are many who claim to have been helped by this therapy, and who claim …

O surgimento da Aids e o aumento da incidência da infecção pelo HIV continuam como um
dos grandes desafios mundiais para o século XXI. A maneira como esse enfrentamento …