The recent paper in which Dikeos et al (2006) investigate the distribution of symptom dimensions within a psychosis sample is a valuable contribution to the literature, and we fully support their observation that bipolar disorder is a much more solid construct than schizophrenia. There are two important issues that were not discussed which we believe deserve consideration. The first is a major ...

BACKGROUND In schizophrenia and major depressive disorder, anhedonia (a loss of capacity to feel pleasure) had differently been considered as a premorbid personological trait or as a main symptom of their clinical picture. The aims of this study were to examine the pathological features of anhedonia in schizophrenic and depressed patients, and to investigate its clinical relations with general ...

background:  this  study  aimed  to  prospectively  analyze  the  effect  of  a  major  earthquake on the prevalence of psychological disorders such as acute stress disorder (asd), anxiety, depression,  mixed  anxiety  depression  disorder  (madd),  phobia,  aggressive  behavior, insomnia, psychosomatic disorders and also sociodemographic aspects among residents of rural community sample in eas...

Affordances are action-possibilities, ways of relating to and acting on things in our world. They help us understand how these mean what they do we have bodily access world more generally. But happens when this is ruptured or impeded? I consider question the context psychopathology reports that describe experience. argue thinking about consequences losing everyday affordances can better reports...

Introduction Schizophrenia is a heterogenous disease and there wide variation in the therapeutic response patients, with some being good responders others - severely disabled defined as treatment resistant. Objectives To identify specific socio-demographic clinical characteristics prognostic factors for search of course prognosis outcome. Methods The study has naturalistic, non-interventional d...

Background: Inattention to symptoms of mental disorders and substance abuse in patients with HIV/AIDS and other at-risk groups, may lead to irreversible damages. The purpose of this study was to compare the psychopathological dimensions in substance abusers with and without HIV/AIDS and healthy matched groups. Methods: In a cross-sectional and analytical study, selected samples (by available, c...