The authors review the literature on the relationship of platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) to affective disorders and alcoholism. Although some studies have reported an association between low platelet MAO and bipolar illness, others have failed to replicate this finding. Alcoholism has been related to affective disorders, and it is of note that three studies have found low MAO in alcoholics. Gi...

Recently, many cases of Fluoxetine induced mania have been reported in the literature. The detailed analysis of these case reports demonstrates that these patients had either positive family history of affective disorder (Lebegne, 1987), past history of affective illness (Settle and Settle, 1984; Lebegne, 1987; Nakra el al., 1989) or were related to high doses of fluoxetine (Chouinard and Stein...

Affective disorders tend to be recurrent and progressive and illness patterns typically evolve from isolated episodes at the beginning to more rapid, rhythmic and finally irregular “chaotic” mood patterns. Chararacteristic timecourse and disease patterns have prompted the consideration of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. In this paper we review some of our recent work where we addressed the releva...

We examined subjective cognitive complaints, affective distress, and cognitive performance in Persian Gulf veterans who reported illness and cognitive complaints. We predicted a stronger relationship between subjective cognitive complaints and affective distress than between subjective cognitive complaints and objective cognitive performance. This prediction was confirmed in a sample of 100 vet...

Twenty-two cases who fulfilled the criteria of having atypical manifestation at any stage of illness and had minimum follow up of three years were studied in detail. Their family history and follow up was analysed. The findings of the present study suggest that the cases showing admixture of schizophrenic and affective symptoms are probably a variant of affective disorders although a possibilit...

Forty patients under the age of 60 years with a DSM-III diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder were examined for the presence of tardive dyskinesia. The overall prevalence was 22.5%, with an age-related increase. Patients with and without tardive dyskinesia did not differ in terms of duration of affective illness or exposure to neuroleptics, but those patients with tardive dyskinesia had signi...

One hundred patients admitted in medical wards of G. G. S. Medical College, Faridkot, were examined for presence of Psychiatric illness. 31 cases were found to be suffering from some sort of psychiatric illness. Out of 31, 16 patients were found to be suffering from primary affective disorders and physical symptoms in them appeared to be direct consequences of depression. Other psychiatric morb...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the concept of 'Non-affective Acute Remitting Psychosis' (NARP) in a group of patients with first episode psychosis in Iran. METHOD This is a 24-month follow-up study of 54 patients with first-episode psychosis admitted consecutively to a psychiatric hospital in Tehran, Iran. At the end of follow-up, consensus judgments were made on fulfillment of the NARP criteria as...

BACKGROUND Most women with psychotic disorders and bipolar disorders have children but their pregnancies are at risk of adverse psychiatric and fetal outcome. The extent of modifiable risk factors - both clinical and socio-demographic - is unclear as most studies have used administrative data or recruited from specialist tertiary referral clinics. We therefore aimed to investigate the socio-dem...