Periodontal disease, a bacterially mediated inflammatory disease of the gingival and adjacent periodontal attachment apparatus, represents, after dental caries, the leading cause of tooth loss among adults in developed countries due to the destruction of the periodontal ligament and the loss of the adjacent supporting bone, the tissues which support the teeth (Pihlstrom et al., 2005). Depressiv...

BACKGROUND We studied the symptomatology of conduct/oppositional defiant disorder and major depression/dysthymic disorder in 'pure' and comorbid presentations. METHOD The sample comprised 382 children of 8 to 17 years of age attending for psychiatric outpatient consultation. Ninety-two had depressive disorders without conduct disorders, 165 conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder wi...

Dementia increases with age, with an overall prevalence in Canada of 8% in those 65 years and older, 2.4% in those aged 65 to 74 years, 11.1% in those aged 75 to 84 years, and 34.5% in those aged 85 years and older.1 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is thought to be the most common type of dementia in all age groups. How ever, younger age groups are more likely than older age groups to be diagnosed wit...

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are promising software to communicate with patients but no study has tested them in the diagnostic field of mental disorders. The aim of this study was 1) to test the performance of a diagnostic system for major depressive disorders (MDD), based on the identification by an ECA of specific symptoms (the MDD DSM 5 criteria) in outpatients; 2) to evaluate the ...