BACKGROUND Several complex mechanisms including biological, psychological and social factors may contribute to the development of bodily symptoms. Affective temperaments may represent heritable subclinical manifestations of mood disorders, and the concept of ego defense mechanisms has also provided a model for the comprehension of psychopathology. The relationship between affective temperaments...

INTRODUCTION Adherence to psychotropic medications is affected by factors related to the treatment, to the physician, to the environment and to the patient himself. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of affective temperaments on treatment adherence. METHODS Thirty six stabilized outpatients were recruited from the aftercare consultation of Psychiatry to perform ...

Bipolar disorder constitutes a challenge for clinicians in everyday clinical practice. Our knowledge concerning this clinical entity is incomplete, and contemporary classification systems are unable to reflect the complexity of this disorder. The concept of temperament, which was first described in antiquity, provides a helpful framework for synthesizing our knowledge on how the human body work...

BACKGROUND there is a public health issue regarding the correct diagnosis of BSD: these diseases are often underreferred, underdiagnosed and undertreated/mistreated. To fail to treat BSD may result in serious complications (loss of work, relationship crisis, substance-abuse, suicide, rapes, etc). In order to correctly diagnose Bipolar Spectrum Mood Disorders, it is important to know the patient...

BACKGROUND Until now, Iranian traditional medicine (ITM) had been extensively based on Iranian philosophy in theoretical approach in diagnosis and treatment, with doubts on academic medicine. Nevertheless, the diagnosis of temperaments, herbal standardization, and quality control had been with the obscurity of functional molecules and their action mechanisms. Proteomics is a potent board to the...

Affective temperaments are considered to be antecedents or sub-syndromal manifestations of bipolar disorders. It is, however, unknown how these temperaments develop into bipolar disorders. We hypothesize that: [1] just before the onset of bipolar disorder, the left medial frontal gyrus (MFG) of cyclothymic and/or hyperthymic healthy subjects may degenerate and shrink in volume concomitantly wit...

---This research work aims to study personality profiles and temperaments of Pakistani software engineering professors and students. In this survey we have collected personality profiles of 18 professors and 92 software engineering students. According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument, the most prominent personality type among professors as well as among students is a combina...

Temperament refers to relatively stable, early appearing, biologically rooted individual differences in behavioral traits. Individual differences in temperament are multidetermined encompassing both biological and experiential influences. Evidence indicates that certain temperament traits, such as impulsivity, inhibition, and negative emotionality, can serve as developmental risk factors. Evide...