Past research regarding mental health literacy has indicated that public knowledge is lamentably poor. This study aimed to examine the effect of demographics, experience and personality, as predictors for understanding conduct disorders. An opportunistic sample of 125 participants with a mean age of 24.29 years completed an online questionnaire in which they were asked to describe and evaluate ...

Involuntary movement disorders are not a common presentation of basal ganglia ischemia which may be induced by cerebral hemodynamic insufficiency. In secondary causes of movements disorders cerebrovascular diseases represent up to 22% and involuntary movements develop after 1-4% of strokes. We describe a case of a middle-aged woman who presented with intermittent involuntary tonic spasms or sei...

Mitochondrial disorders were first described in 1962 (Luft, Ikkos, Palmieri, Ernster, & Afzelius, 1962), and were initially thought to be uniformly progressive and fatal with onset in infancy or early childhood, typically associated with severe neurological manifestations, including strokelike episodes, seizures, neuronal degeneration, organ failure and dementia. More recently, clinical observa...

Frawley is correct to stress the importance of control in cognitive processing, and the essence of his proposal — that disorders of cognition can result from either within-module or between-module breakdown — is an interesting and potentially important contribution to cognitive science. However, Frawley’s commitment to an overly-literal interpretation of the computational metaphor, combined wit...

Inflammation is thought to underlie the pathogenesis of many chronic diseases. It is now established that obesity results in a state of chronic low-grade inflammation thought to contribute to several metabolic disorders, including insulin resistance and pancreatic islet dysfunction. The protein kinases JNK1 and IKKbeta have been found to serve as critical molecular links between obesity, metabo...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to identify similarities and differences in symptom characteristics at initial presentation of first psychotic episodes in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and unipolar depression. METHODS The Structured Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) were administered to consecutive admission study-eligible patients (n=101) presenting f...

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is increasingly conceptualized as a transdiagnostic factor underlying anxiety disorders and depression. Current understanding of the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and specific obsessive compulsive symptom domains remains limited. The purpose of the present study was to explore the prevalence of obsessive compulsive beliefs and intolerance of unc...

intolerance of uncertainty (iu) is increasingly conceptualized as a transdiagnostic factor underlying anxiety disorders and depression. current understanding of the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and specific obsessive compulsive symptom domains remains limited. the purpose of the present study was to explore the prevalence of obsessive compulsive beliefs and intolerance of unc...

Disorders of mood and thought arise from altered functioning of highest human faculties. The idea that meaningful animal models of these disorders can be made seems utterly absurd. Are not we at the top of millennia of evolution, have not we reached levels of complexities that are out of range of any of the animal species populating this planet? Thus, we were caught by surprise when first scien...