Negative mood invites psychotic false perception in dementia

Diagnosing and managing psychotic and mood disorders.

DSM-5 and psychotic and mood disorders.

The criteria for the major psychotic disorders and mood disorders are largely unchanged in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), with a few important exceptions: a new assessment tool for the psychotic disorders based on dimensional assessment, a new scheme of specifiers for the mood disorders, the addition of three new depressive disorders, and recog...

Sensing Mood to Counteract Dementia

Among the risk reducers for dementia in general and AD in particular are intellectual stimulation, regular physical exercise, and regular social interaction (see e.g. Ball et al., 2002; Kramer, et al., 1999; Seeman, 1996). Recent research has demonstrated the strong relationships between levels of sensory and physical stimulation and of social communication to both cognitive performance and psy...

False Negative Fecal Occult Blood Test: Prozone Effect

Dear editor, the fecal occult blood test is the presently widely used screening laboratory test for colorectal cancer. At present, the test is usually based on an immunological diagnostic principle (1, 2). A false positive fecal occult blood is common and widely mentioned in literature. Nevertheless, the false negative is little mentioned in the paper. Here, the authors discuss the issue of the...

First- and Third-Person Perspectives in Psychotic Disorders and Mood Disorders with Psychotic Features

Lack of insight, very frequent in schizophrenia, can be considered a deficit in Theory of Mind (ToM) performances, and is also found in other psychiatric disorders. In this study, we used the first- to third-person shift to examine subjects with psychotic and psychotic mood disorders. 92 patients were evaluated with SANS and SAPS scales and asked to talk about their delusions. They were asked t...