There has been significant improvement in available treatments for Bipolar Mood Disorder (BMD) during the past few years. However, this disorder still causes difficulties for the patients, their families, and the society (Kleinman et al., 2003). Overall studies have demonstrated that this disease affects patients‘ entire family and may weaken its strengths and adaptive abilities (Barry, 2001). ...

Results: Of the 109 suicide deaths identified by the coroner at the time of the study, we were able to investigate 102. At time of death, 65% of the suicide victims had a mood disorder, 59% had a substance-related disorder, and 42% had concurrent mood and substance-related disorders. The lifetime prevalence of substance-related disorders among these suicide victims was 66%. Finally, 52% of the ...

BACKGROUND A general internist has an important role in primary care, especially for the elderly in rural areas of Japan. Although effective intervention models for depressed patients in general practice and primary care settings have been developed in the US and UK medical systems, there is little information regarding even the recognition rate and prescription rate of psychotropic medication ...

Background: A high percentage of the patients referred to dermatologic clinics are either suffer from self inflicted disorders or from misinterpretation about their own health and organ integrity and or may suffer from different skin sensations including itching, pain, and burning; all of which may develop as a result of their underlying psychopathologies. Objective: Identification of underlyin...

Seasonal variation of manic and depressive symptoms is a controversial topic in bipolar disorder research. Several studies report seasonal patterns of hospital admissions for depression and mania and variation in symptoms that appear to follow a seasonal pattern, whereas others fail to report such patterns. Differences in research methodologies, data analysis strategies, and temporal resolution...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS This study aimed to determine time to relapse and remission of mood episodes in Thai patients with bipolar disorder (BD). The Thai Bipolar Disorder Registry was a multicenter, prospective, naturalistic, observational study conducted in Thailand. Participants were adult inpatients or outpatients with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders bipolar disorder. T...

PURPOSE Elevated negative mood states such as social anxiety and depressive mood have been found in adults who stutter. Research is needed to assist in the development of a model that clarifies how factors like self-efficacy and social support contribute to the variability of negative mood states over time. METHOD Participants included 200 adults who stutter. A longitudinal design was employe...

The nature of mood variation in bipolar disorder has been the subject of relatively little research because detailed time series data has been difficult to obtain until recently. However some papers have addressed the subject and claimed the presence of deterministic chaos and of stochastic nonlinear dynamics. This study uses mood data collected from eight outpatients using a telemonitoring sys...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory processes could underlie mood disorders. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of MMPs (TIMP) are inflammation-related molecules. The current study sought an association between mood disorders and systemic levels of MMPs and TIMPs. METHODS Serum was obtained from patients with mood disorders (n=21) and patients with schizophrenia (n=13) scheduled to un...