Context: Different paradoxical theories are available regarding psychiatric disorders. The current study aimed to establish a more comprehensive overall approach. Evidence Acquisition: This basic study examined ancient medical books. “The Canon” by Avicenna and “Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry” by Kaplan and Sadock were the most important and frequently consulted books in this study. Resul...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between affective temperaments and clinical features in bipolar disorder. Testing the relationships between phenomenological features, course, severity of episodes, overall severity of illness and comorbid conditions would clarify the reliability and validity of affective temperamental descriptions. METHODS One hundred...

this is a letter to editor.there is growing interest in the health benefits of botanical diuretics. (1-2) ‎avicenna (980-1037 ad), the foremost iranian physician,‎‏ ‏introduced ‎numerous herbs as diuretics in his renowned book of canon of medicine. (3)‎avicenna and his followers have recommended herbal diuretics for most ‎ailments accompanied by fluid superabundance like lassitude, oedema, and ...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that multiple factors interact with the onset and prognosis of major depressive disorders. In this study, we investigated how child abuse, affective temperaments, and interpersonal sensitivity are interrelated, and how they affect depressive symptoms in the general adult population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 415 volunteers from the general adult ...

Is suffering associated with melancholia and "madness" necessary for artistic creativity and eminence? Or do creativity and leadership have something to do with the temperaments associated with affective disease? We integrate concepts dating back to Greek psychological medicine and philosophy--especially work attributed to Aristotle--with modern data-based examination of the role of cyclothymic...

This paper provides an intelligent multiagent approach to incorporate human temperaments into the filtering process of an information recommendation service. Our approach is to devise a new filtering mechanism, which addresses segmentation, learning, classification, and filtering techniques based on Keirsey’s temperament theory, probability theory, the distributions of temperaments, and statist...

A differential susceptibility hypothesis proposes that children may differ in the degree to which parenting qualities affect aspects of child development. Infants with difficult temperaments may be more susceptible to the effects of parenting than infants with less difficult temperaments. Using latent change curve analyses to analyze data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human De...