OBJECTIVE It has been reported that fewer patients with unipolar mania respond to lithium prophylaxis as do those with classical bipolar disorder. This study aimed to determine if the difference to response to lithium is related to unipolar mania or to a high preponderance of mania during the course of bipolarity. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included bipolar-I patients (according to DSM-I...

Here, we are reporting a case of late onset mania in a 61 year old male secondary to dengue fever. The past and family history of the mood disorder was absent in the patient. Episode of mania had a temporal correlation with the dengue fever. Psychiatric co-morbidities are mentioned in the literature following dengue fever but the literature on the mania following dengue is sparse. The late onse...

how to cite this article: fallah e, arman a, najafi m, shayegh b. effect of tamoxifen and lithium on treatment of acute mania symptoms in children and adolescents. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):16-25. abstract objective many studies have supported the role of protein kinase c (pkc) inhibitors in the physiopathology and treatment of bipolar disorder in adults. tamoxifen is one of the d...

In this article we present the development and application of the Mania Rating Guide (MRG), a semi-structured interview. This guide was created in order to assist the filling of three mania Scales: Mania Rating Scale, Bech-Rafaelsen Mania Scale and Clinician-Administered Rating Scale for Mania. The MRG consists of twenty-one Psychopathological Dimensions, that correspond to the Items of the ori...

Der Kondo-Effekt ist ein Vielteilchen-Effekt, der die Eigenschaften ganz unterschiedlicher Materialklassen prägt. Deshalb er zentrales Thema Festkörperphysik. Schon ursprüngliche Spin-Kondo-Effekt nicht nur wegen des Kondo-abgeschirmten Zustands mit hohen effektiven Massen von Interesse, sondern auch Physik Kondo-Aufbruchs. Letztere beinhaltet einen quantenkritischen Ladungs-Delokalisierungs-Üb...