conduct disorders are a group of behavior disorders in which the basic rights of others or major age appropriate social norms or rules are violated. to evaluate the factors influencing childhood conduct disorders, we reviewed records of 43 cases (84% boys, mean age 11 years) referred to shahid esmaili psychiatric hospital, tehran. all patients fulfilled diagnostic criteria of dsmiv. 15 variable...

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus infections (PANDAS) originated from the observational work of Swedo and collaborators, who formalized their definition in 1998 in a set of operational criteria. The application of these criteria, which focuses on tics and obsessivecompulsive symptoms as core symptoms, has encountered difficulties, eventually leading t...

This study presents a new inventory to assess thought-action fusion (TAF). 160 college students ages 18 to 22 (M = 19.17, SD = 1.11) completed the new Modified Thought Action Scale (MTAFS). Results indicated high internal consistency in the MTAFS (Cronbach’s α = .95). A principal component analysis suggested a three factor solution of TAF-Moral (TAFM), TAFLikelihood (TAFL), and TAF-Harm avoidan...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the response of a medication-refractory, 16-year old male with severe Tourette syndrome (TS) and typical co-morbidities to bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus interna (GPi). BACKGROUND: Case reports suggest efficacy of DBS in treating severe TS. A medication-refractory, 16-year old male with severe Tourette syndrome (TS) and typical co-morbiditie...

There has been a burgeoning interest in the psychopharmacology of mood, anxiety, and disruptive behavior disorders in children and adolescents. Clinicians have become increasingly aware that clinical practice should be based on controlled empirical research in children, rather than extrapolating efficacy and safety data from adults. The focus of this month's issue of CNS Spectrums is to provide...

abstract background: most of the studies about parenting stress among parents of children with autistic spectrum disorder (asd) have been conducted in western societies. the objective of this research, conducted in iran, is to evaluate the parenting stress among fathers and mothers of children with asd and fi nd the correlation between severity of the disorder in children and the level of paren...

s p t s D eep brain stimulation (DBS) presents the promise of effective treatment for central nervous system disorders that are resistant to other available treatments. Deep brain stimulation has been reported to be effective in Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, pain syndromes, and medication resistant obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD). Deep brain stimulation has also been reported to exe...

the aim of this research is reduction the symptoms of anxiety disorder, through mbct. it seems that two main parameters of this treatment namely avoiding from mental rumination and avoidant states in a particular way with anxiety disorder. meanwhile applying this type of treatment for reduction of the symptoms and rupture of disorder continuation chain could be useful. this is a quasi-experimen...

obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, intrusive, unwanted thoughts. research indicates a genetic predisposition for ocd. many people with ocd have one or more family members who also have it or who may have other anxiety disorders influenced by the brain's serotonin levels, such as panic disorder. although ocd is a chronic and oftenti...

objective: the purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and possible variables on changing the diagnosis of mood disorder patients to schizophrenia.  method: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 in razi psychiatric hospital. the sample consisted of all the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with the diagnosis of mood disor...