PURPOSE The prevalence of bipolar disorder in patients being treated for depression with antidepressants in a family medicine clinic was investigated in this study. METHODS Adult patients with depression who were treated with an antidepressant in a general outpatient family medicine clinic at the University of Texas were screened for bipolar disorder using the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ...

UNLABELLED The study measured the accuracy of the Italian version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) as a screening instrument for bipolar disorders in a psychiatric setting. METHODS 154 consecutive subjects attending the Division of Psychiatry of the University of Cagliari (Italy), were screened for bipolar disorders using the Italian translation of the MDQ, and diagnostically intervie...

The purpose of this study was to classify and compare the fundamental motor skills (FMS) children from public private schools verify compatibility FMS with students’ chronological age. Participants were 81 healthy (10.6±1.2 years). TGMD-2 used evaluate FMS. Private school students had a higher score on locomotor subtest than (p=.032), no difference object control (p=.733). Gross Motor Quotient ...

UNLABELLED AIM : The relationships between obesity and bipolar spectrum disorders (BSD) are unclear. Thus, the aim of our study were to approximate the prevalence of soft bipolar features in patients seeking treatment for obesity. METHODS We performed a nested case-control study (cases: 90 patients with the mean BMI=38.1±7.0 [range: 30.1-62.5]; controls: 70 healthy volunteers with the mean BM...

BACKGROUND Despite newborn screening and early levothyroxine replacement, there are continued reports of mild neurocognitive impairment in children with congenital hypothyroidism (CHT). In Auckland, New Zealand, cases are identified by a neonatal screening program with rapid institution of high-dose levothyroxine replacement (10-15 μg/kg·d), producing prompt normalization of thyroid function. S...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to screen for bipolarity and to investigate the affective temperaments of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and the possible association between the clinical and demographic characteristics of MS patients and temperament profiles. METHODS A total of 65 patients with MS and 66 healthy volunteers completed the 32-item hypomania checklist (HCl-32...

Emotional mental imagery occurs across anxiety disorders, yet is neglected in bipolar disorder despite high anxiety comorbidity. Furthermore, a heightened susceptibility to developing intrusive mental images of stressful events in bipolar disorder and people vulnerable to it (with hypomanic experience) has been suggested. The current study assessed, prospectively, whether significant hypomanic ...

We demonstrated a novel white electrophosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PHOLEDs), which structure was ITO/NPB (35 nm)/MCP (5 nm)/Firpic: MCP 10 wt% (15 nm)/ Ir (MDQ)2(acac): TPBI X wt% (2 nm)/Firpic:TPBI 10 wt% (10 nm)/TPBI (40 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm). The luminescent properties were studied by inserting different doping concentration of the red emitting layer (Ir(MDQ)2(acac):TPBI...