The unmatched drop in suicides that Sri Lanka achieved around the turn of century provide lessons for what is useful to try now, as our rates gradually plateau. Looking back over phase dramatic reduction provides an opportunity also examine critically strategies used other countries, reduce suicides. And examining little explored facets puzzling phenomenon suicide is, helps us develop new insig...

To systematically investigate obsessive-compulsive traits in Parkinson's disease, patients were administered the Maudsley obsessional-compulsive inventory (MOCI) and a modification of the Leyton obsessional inventory (LOI) to a sample of non-demented and non-depressed patients with Parkinson's disease. Patients with severe Parkinson's disease showed more obsessive traits than normal controls in...

Personality traits are closely related to eating disorders (ED) and might be involved in their development and maintenance. Nevertheless little is known regarding the association between personality traits and disordered eating in subclinical populations. College students answered questionnaires assessing disordered eating behaviors (DEB) and the following personality disorder (PD) traits: schi...

BACKGROUND Racing thoughts is a frequent symptom in mood disorders, particularly mixed depressive states. This paper aims to summarize our current knowledge about its phenomenology and frequency in the spectrum of mood disorders, and to offer a new theoretical framework. METHODS We made a selective review of original and review papers in Medline and PsychInfo database using the keywords "raci...