BACKGROUND Apathy is an important and distressing behavioural symptom in Alzheimer's disease and in various neuropsychiatric disorders. Recently, diagnostic criteria for apathy have been proposed. OBJECTIVES In groups of patients suffering from different neuropsychiatric diseases, (i) to estimate the prevalence of patients meeting the proposed diagnostic criteria; (ii) to estimate the concurr...

Mood disturbance is a common comorbid condition of temporal lobe epilepsy before and after surgery. Suicide is more frequent in patients with epilepsy than in the general population. As suicide is a major issue in both epileptic and depressive patients, it is critical to treat aggressively any psychiatric illness with suicidal ideation. We describe two patients who, after temporal lobe surgery,...

Introduction Mixed states, the co-occurrence of manic and depressive symptoms, were recognized described from time antiquity. DSM-5 first, DSM-5-TR after, introduced ‘’mixed features’’ specifier, defined by presence at least three non-overlapping opposite-pole symptoms during a syndromic depressive, hypomanic, or episode. Various manifestations, including irritability, distractibility, anxiety,...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively evaluate the association between antibiotics used to treat acne and pharyngitis. DESIGN Cross-sectional and 9-month prospective cohort. SETTING Urban university setting. PARTICIPANTS University students. INTERVENTION Participants were asked to fill out a survey form, were swabbed for culture, and had a visual examination for acne. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Report...

This study examined the concordance and predictive validity of two empirical and two operational classification systems of psychotic disorders. Latent class analysis (LCA) was applied to 16 index episode and to their corresponding 16 lifetime symptom ratings of 660 psychotic inpatients, who were also diagnosed according to DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria. The resulting classes or diagnoses were vali...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbance is a prevalent and clinically significant feature of bipolar disorder. However, there are aspects of sleep and bipolar disorder that have been minimally characterized. This study aims to fill several gaps in the literature by examining the prevalence, coexistence, and persistence of sleep disturbance retrospectively across a five-year period in bipolar disorder. M...

BACKGROUND Cognitive functions have been investigated across depressed, manic, hypomanic, mixed and euthymic episodes of bipolar disorder, but the stability or the progression of cognitive impairment is still under research. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to assess the outcome of cognitive functions in bipolar patients following a depressive episode, after a 6-month period in ...

We present a new datamining approach to generating frequent episode rules for building anomaly-based, intrusion detection systems. The episode rules are generated to detect anomalous sequences of TCP, UDP, or ICMP connections, which deviate from normal traffic episodes. Rule pruning techniques are introduced to reduce the search space by 40-70%. The new method demonstrates its effectiveness in ...

It has been suggested that consuming alcohol mixed with energy drink (AMED) may increase total alcohol consumption. Aims of this systematic review and meta-analysis were (i) to compare alcohol consumption of AMED consumers with alcohol only (AO) consumers (between-group comparisons), and (ii) to examine if alcohol consumption of AMED consumers differs on AMED and AO occasions (within-subject co...

Introduction: The aim of this research was to evaluate the demographic characteristics, diagnosis, treatment compliance and follow-up outpatient clinic patients who had undergone electroconvulsive therapy for mood disorders.Methods: This retrospective study has been conducted based on inpatient clinical records disorders were treated with ECT between 2015-2018 in Department Psychiatry Faculty M...