Editorial: Executive Functions in Psychiatric Disorders

Editorial: Executive Functions in Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatric disorders and behavioral functions in offsprings of bipolar parents

Introduction: Psychiatric disorders and function of child and adolescent offsprings of bipolar parents were compared to that of their peers with healthy parents. Methods: In this case - control study, 52 bipolar parents along with their 72 children were compared with 48 healthy and their 63 children. The subjects were selected by simple and available methods. K-SADS, C-GAS were to collect...

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders

Daring must be an inborn trait. Egas Moniz, the neurolo-gist who extrapolated from the abolition of experimental neurosis in two chimpanzees to the invention of a procedure to ablate pathways of the frontal lobes in mentally ill human beings, had already developed angiog-raphy and spent time in jail for opposition to the Portugese monarchy 1. Such a man could write, in recording the results in ...

Executive functions and their disorders.

The term executive function defines complex cognitive processing requiring the co-ordination of several subprocesses to achieve a particular goal. Neuropsychological evidence suggests that executive processing is intimately connected with the intact function of the frontal cortices. Executive dysfunction has been associated with a range of disorders, and is generally attributed to structural or...