OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to predict the onset of mood and anxiety disorders from parent-reported emotional and behavioral problems in childhood across a 14-year period from childhood into young adulthood. METHOD In 1983, parent reports of behavioral and emotional problems were obtained with the Child Behavior Checklist for children and adolescents 4-16 years of age from the Dutch ...

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...

In the present article we will examine whether fear felt towards crime is related to perception of financial scarcity when satisfying needs, thus attempting determine such a influences considerations transgressor must serve prison sentence. addition, through correlational design, analyse how and perceived linked mood wellbeing. The results from among large sample Spanish participants (1,474) ha...

BACKGROUND General population data were used to study co-morbidities between lifetime social phobia and mood disorders. METHODS Data come from the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). RESULTS Strong associations exist between lifetime social phobia and major depressive disorder (odds ratio 2.9), dysthymia (2.7) and bipolar disorder (5.9). Odds ratios increase in magnitude with number of so...

Social Media offer a vast amount of geo-located and time-stamped textual content directly generated by people. This information can be analysed to obtain insights about the general state of a large population of users and to address scientific questions from a diversity of disciplines. In this work, we estimate temporal patterns of mood variation through the use of emotionally loaded words cont...

Mike Thelwall, Kevan Buckley Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Tel: +44 1902 321470 Fax: +44 1902 321478 General sentiment analysis for the social web has become increasingly useful to shed light on the role of emotion in online communication ...

OBJECTIVE Depression and anxiety significantly affect morbidity in Huntington's disease. Mice. models of Huntington's disease have identified sex differences in mood-like behaviours that vary across disease lifespan, but this interaction has not previously been explored in humans with Huntington's disease. However, among certain medical populations, evidence of sex differences in mood across va...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study is to investigate if deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) for Parkinson's disease (PD) under general anesthesia further improves outcome by lessening postoperative cognitive, mood, and behavioral adverse effects; shorten surgical time and hospital admittance; and produce comparable symptomatic and functional improvement to surgery under l...

a Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Psychopharmacology Program, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. , and b International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, Mass. , USA; c Department of Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires , Argentina; d Lucio Bino Mood Disorders Cente...