objective: early maladaptive schemas (emss) or fundamental beliefs that underpin stable and trait-like psychological disorders are chronic and relapsing. in, active schemas in dysthymic patients with major depression have been compared with healthy individuals.the purpose of this study was to compare early maladaptive schemas (young, 2003, 1990) in dysthymic patients with major depression and h...

background: there have been several studies conducted on the relationship between bipolar mood disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( adhd) during the recent years, and in most of them the rate of this association had been estimated as 22-90% and had been reported as noticeable. the goal of this study is to determine the prevalence of adhd in patients with bipolar mood disorder...

BACKGROUND The current categorical split of mood disorders in bipolar (BP) disorders and depressive disorders has recently been questioned. The presence of a significant number of manic/hypomanic symptoms in patients with recurrent unipolar depression seems to challenge the traditional dichotomy of unipolar-BP disorder. Two highly unstable personality features, i.e., the cyclothymic temperament...

BACKGROUND Rural-to-urban migration in low- and middle-income countries causes an increase in individual cardiovascular risk. Cost-effective interventions at early stages of the natural history of coronary disease such as angina may stem an epidemic of premature coronary deaths in these countries. However, there are few data on the prevalence of angina in developing countries, whilst the unders...

this article reports the results of an epidemiology of mental disorders among adults above 15 years in urben areas of kashan city. data were gathered using general health questionnaire (28- items version) and clinical interview based on dsm-iv. results showed the total prevalence of mental disorders, were about 23.75%. more prevalent were mood disorder, (%11.75). anxiety disorder, (%11.15) and ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that attitudes and beliefs are important in predicting adherence in depressive and bipolar disorders. However, such attitudes and beliefs on mood stabilizers have not been analysed by socio-demographic and clinical variables. METHODS The Mood Stabilizer Compliance Questionnaire (MSQC) was mailed to a large population of patients with depressive or bipol...

BACKGROUND The study measured the accuracy of the Italian version of the Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) for self-assessment as a screening instrument for bipolar disorder (BPD) in a psychiatric setting and compared results with a previous study, carried out in a comparable sample and in the same setting, using the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ). METHODS 123 consecutive subjects attending a p...

AIM The study aimed to analyse the bipolarity features between patients with treatment-resistant depression and patients with remission of a depressive episode. METHODS The population studied included patients aged 18-65 who had a diagnosis of first or recurrent major depressive disorder. Each psychiatrist included 5 consecutive patients, from all the patients he is treating, where the depres...

objective: with regard to the abundance of mood disorders among the artists and, life and death of hedayat, number and time of creation of his works, this hypothesis that hedayat suffered from a bipolar mood disorder (type ii, or bipolar spectrum) is studied in the descriptive psychiatry framework. methods: his biographies, medical records, letters exchanged between him and his friends and rela...