this paper highlights a variety of personality disorders in individuals with eating disorder and also emphasizes the importance of identifying clinically meaningful eating disorders subtypes based on concurrent personality disorder. the relationship between personality disorders and eating disorders is an important issue as this association has implications for assessment and treatment. differe...

objective: although there are some reports of reduction of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in manic episodes or its exacerbation during depressive episodes, this relationship has not been proved. method: clinical observations of six cases with co-morbidity of bipolar-i-disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder or symptoms. results: the cases presented here show heterogeneity and variety of the r...

the aim of this study was to compare defense styles and mechanisms in adult patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), and panic disorder (pd) with normal subjects in iran.defensive patterns of 22 patients with ocd, 28 patients with pd and those of 116 normal individuals (as a control group) were assessed using the farsi version of defense style questionnaire-40 (dsq-40). the ...

ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been developed as a self-reporting, brief, and easy-to-use screening instrument to improve identification of bipolar mood disorders. the goals of the present study were to examine the prevalence of this disorder and interrelationship of its symptoms by factor analysis of mdq in a group of pregnant women in ïran. methods: ône thousand and eigh...

objective: in spite of introduction of novel drugs, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) has still found no suitable treatment. on the other hand, high rates of co-morbidity of ocd with bipolar spectrum disorders are increasingly recognized. mood switching and development of rapid cycling with antidepressants are significant problems in these patients. from this viewpoint, introducing a non-anti...

posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) occurs following exposure to potentially traumatic experiences such as those regularly encountered by emergency service workers (police, ambulance and firemen/women) and servicemen/women. ptsd is associated with high rates of somatic comorbidities including metabolic syndrome contributing to an excess mortality rate due to preventable cardiovascular diseases...

introduction: eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety can be occurring in the same time. also social anxiety is one of the important factors predicting eating disorder symptoms which vary among different cultures and countries. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety in school boys.  materials and methods: this was a cross-...

background: psychiatric disorders are common in hiv-infected patients and for sure have direct impact on both prevention and management of diseases in these patients. in this research, the prevalence of major psychiatric disorders including mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders in hiv-infected patients of rafsanjan and kerman health care centers were determined. materials and methods: eighty t...

background and aims: ischemic stroke is the most common type of stroke and its most important symptoms are paralysis and movement disorders. therefore, finding a method for treating this disorder is greatly important. this study was conducted to investigate the clinical efficacy of frankincense on the patients with ischemic stroke. methods: in this clinical trial study, 60 patients with ischemi...

ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been designed as a screening self-report inventory for diagnosing bipolar mood disorders. this study investigated the validity and the optimal cut-off threshold of the persian version of mdq in a group of ïranian depressive patients. methods: ône hundred and twenty patients with probable diagnosis of mood disorders attending psychiatric clini...