OBJECTIVE Self-mutilation has traditionally been associated with borderline personality disorder, and seldom examined separately from suicide attempts. Clinical experience suggests that self-mutilation is common in bipolar disorder. METHODS A family study was conducted on the molecular genetics of depression and personality, in which the proband had been treated for depression. All probands a...

objectives: the relationship between suicidal attempt and opioid use disorder in patients with bipolar disorder (bd) is unknown. this study aimed at shedding some light on this issue. method:178 inpatients aged 18-65 with bd type i with or without opioid use disorders were face-to-face interviewed through the persian structured clinical interview for dsm-iv axis i disorders (scid-i), the global...

background :co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. in this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in iranian gid patients.   methods : seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (srs) were recruited for this cross- sectional study. of the participants, ...

background :5httlpr polymorphism (5- hydroxytryptamine transporter linked promoter region polymorphism) is the most widely studied genetic variant in psychiatry. the present study is a modest effort at ascertaining the role of 5ht transporter linked promoter region polymorphism (5httlpr) in anxiety and depressive disorders in kashmir (india).the aim of this study was to examine 5-hydroxy trypta...

OBJECTIVE Relatively little is known about the co-occurrence of bipolar and eating disorders. We therefore assessed the prevalence and clinical correlates of eating disorders in 875 patients with bipolar disorder. METHOD 875 outpatients with DSM-IV bipolar I or II disorder were evaluated with structured diagnostic interviews and clinician- and self-administered questionnaires to determine bip...

hemophilia b is factor ix deficiency and is inherited as x-linked recessive disorder. the subject of carrier detection in hemophilias has received new impetus in the last several years. analysis of factor ix gene polymorphisms is considered the best approach for prenatal diagnosis and hemophilia b carrier detection, if the identification of the gene mutation is possible. allele frequencies of t...

objective in this article, a motor skill disorder called developmental coordination disorder (dcd), that is usually first diagnosed during childhood, is explained and discussed. in the year 1987, dcd was formally recognized as a distinct disorder in children by the american psychiatric association  (apa). dcd is a generalized term for the children who have some degrees of impairment in the deve...

OBJECTIVE This paper reports the first population estimates of prevalence and correlates of personality disorders in the Mexican population. METHOD Personality disorders screening questions from the International Personality Disorder Examination were administered to a representative sample of the Mexican urban adult population (n = 2,362) as part of the Mexican National Comorbidity Survey, va...

Research on the consequences of perceiving disorder is largely sociological and concerns broken windows theory, which states that signs of social disorder cause further social disorder. The predominant psychological explanations for this phenomenon are primarily social. In contrast, I propose a parsimonious cognitive model ("world-is-random" model; WIR) that may partly account for these effects...

introduction : the aim of this study was to compare obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) comorbidity in early and late onset bipolar i disorder and to explore the pattern of obsessive symptoms in these two groups. methods : a total of 100 inpatients with early and late bipolar disorder were admitted in the child, adolescent and adult psychiatric ward. they were recruited to the study through con...