OBJECTIVES Mood and anxiety disorders are associated with greater inpatient care utilization in children with chronic illness. We sought to investigate the association of mood or anxiety disorders and outcomes for hospitalized pediatric patients, using pneumonia as a model. METHODS We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study of pneumonia hospitalizations in patients 5 to 20 years old,...

OBJECTIVE The importance of psychiatric comorbidity in migraine has long been recognized. There is a growing body of evidence that these psychiatric comorbidities share diverse epidemiological properties, pathophysiological mechanisms, and treatment response. The prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities is high in patients with medication-overuse headache (MOH). METHODS To understand the chara...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com Methods: The self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and selfrating depression scale (SDS) were used to assess the mental state in 86 cases of youth men, the total serum testosterone levels were determined at the same time, the correlations between mood disorders and testosterone deficiency were...

Our understanding of the underlying neurobiology for mood disorders is still limited. We present an integrated model for conceptualizing and understanding mood disorders drawing upon a broad literature pertinent to mood disorders. The integrated model of emotion processing and regulation incorporates the linguistic constructs of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative. In particular, we ...

BACKGROUND Mood disorders are one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders that have early onset, are chronic and can cause functional impairment. It is therefore crucial to establish an accurate diagnosis for treatment and research purposes. OBJECTIVES The authors aimed to test the validity and reliability of the WHO Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN Thai Version)...

Growing clinical evidence in support of the efficacy and safety of sleep deprivation (SD), and its biological mechanisms of action suggest that this technique can now be included among the first-line antidepressant treatment strategies for mood disorders. SD targets the broadly defined depressive syndrome, and can be administered according to several different treatment schedules: total versus ...

There has been considerable interest in the neurocognitive functioning of subjects with mood disorders (Bcardcn ct al., 2001). I "'torn a theoretical viewpoint, the dysfunction provides insight (especially when monitored with fMlll) into the biological underpinnings, for example, structure and pathway integrity, of mood disorders. From a practical viewpoint, neurocognitive dysfunction underpins...

Growing clinical evidence in support of the efficacy and safety of sleep deprivation (SD), and its biological mechanisms of action suggest that this technique can now be included among the first-line antidepressant treatment strategies for mood disorders. SD targets the broadly defined depressive syndrome, and can be administered according to several different treatment schedules: total versus ...

The history of syndrome-based diagnosis is reviewed. Recent criteria for the mood disorders according to the American Psychiatric Association are presented. Issues in the differential diagnosis of the mood disorders are discussed. Finally, commonly encountered pitfalls in clinical descriptive diagnosis and their potential remedies are summarized.