BACKGROUND Depression has been associated with adverse clinical events in myocardial infarction (MI) patients, but many questions about the nature of post-MI depression remain unanswered. We examined whether depressive cognitions characteristic of depression in psychiatric patients are also present in post-MI patients with major depression (MD). METHODS Non-depressed (n=40) and depressed (n=4...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess axis-I DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in patients at baseline and 3 months after surgery for medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. METHOD The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) and Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-10 (QOLIE-10) were evaluated before and 3 months after surgery in 50 consecutive patients (21 females, 29...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric symptoms during pregnancy induce an increase in morbidity and also in the mortality levels among women and children. However, the real association between pregnancy and psychiatric disorders and the peculiarities of the phenomenology of symptoms in underprivileged countryside communities remain uncertain. OBJECTIVE To verify the association between psychiatric disorder,...

np-c is a severe, progressive and irreversible neurovisceral disease, which is invariably fatal. np-c is a rare disease, with an estimated minimal incidence of 1/120,000 live births . np-c is caused by mutations in npc1 (~95% of patients) or npc2 genes .defective npc1 and npc2 proteins result in a disruption of lipid metabolism . one of special features of this disorder is heterogeneous manifes...

a psychiatric survey has been carried out in a solitary small village located in the fringes of central desert of iran. out of 106 individuals of 15 years old and over, selected randomly, 57 (53.8%) were found to be suffering from psychiatryic disturbances 21 (41.2%) of them were males and 36 (65.5%) were females. depressive illnesses were found to be the most frequntfy encontered disorder. the...

conclusions following cabg, the most severity of pain was reported at surgical incision on time t2. pain began to decrease from the third day following the operation. age, sex and bmi along with operation-related factors such as duration of cbp or chest tube drainage may affect the pain pattern following cabg surgery. patients and methods the present study was conducted on 138 patients who unde...

Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis (Anti NMDARE) is an immune mediated encephalitis. It one of the most common cause acute and sub-acute encephalopathy. Clinical features include behavioral disturbances, psychiatric manifestations, seizures, movement disorders [1]. Here we report a case 3 year 1 month old girl who presented with difficulty in walking involuntary movements. There we...

Noise, a prototypical environmental stressor, has clear health effects in causing hearing loss but other health effects are less evident. Noise exposure may lead to minor emotional symptoms but the evidence of elevated levels of aircraft noise leading to psychiatric hospital admissions and psychiatric disorder in the community is contradictory. Despite this there are well documented association...

background :severe obesity is highly co-morbid with psychiatric disorders and may have effect on the quality of life. this study aimed to compare severity and prevalence rate of depression, anxiety and eating disorders and quality of life in severe obese patients before and 6 months after the gastric bypass surgery.   methods : this was a prospective observational study which conducted at hazar...