We describe the case of an elderly woman with elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis, where the use of 4 mg/kg/day of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was followed by the onset of psychomotor agitation with marked physical and verbal violence towards her partner, including throwing objects at her partner. No disturbance in sleep and no anxiety, nervousness, or irritability had emerged before the onset of h...

Evidence-based Psychiatric Care 2016;2;56-60 Abstract Objectives: This study aims to analyze the relationship between symptoms – focusing on depression – and the recovery style in a psychiatric day center. Assuming that this relationship affects the burden management, the study has the additional endpoint of evaluate the impact of the interaction between symptoms and recovery style on the distr...

We present two studies on authentic vocal affect expressions. In Study 1, the speech of social phobics was recorded in an anxiogenic public speaking task both before and after treatment. In Study 2, the speech material was collected from real life human-computer interactions. All speech samples were acoustically analyzed and subjected to listening tests. Results from Study 1 showed that a decre...

PURPOSE Children with epilepsy are more likely to have behavioral problems compared to children without epilepsy. Literature suggests that levetiracetam leads to behavioral side-effects in children with epilepsy. The objective of this study is to provide a better overview of the frequency and variety of behavioral side-effects, which can be initiated by levetiracetam therapy in children with ep...

ILLIAM NUTTALL, an English stutterer, writing in the journal Psyche, in 1937, said, in effect, that whoever finds a cure for stuttering will have found a cure for all the ills of society .. We should not permit his possible exaggeration to distract us from the peculiarly fundamental wisdom which he expressed . In a sense, what he said of stuttering might also be said of such other perplexing fo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Data on survival and functioning after stroke needs to be supplemented by measures emphasizing the patients' subjective perception. We studied (1) subjective well-being (SWB) as a latent variable in a common-factor model with four items, (2) the reliability of these four items, and (3) variables related to SWB in stroke patients. METHODS Data on all stroke patients (n=1...

Eleven volunteers participated in a study to characterize some physiological and psychological effects of caffeine in a double-blind, crossover study. During one week, the subjects were given a caffeine-containing beverage, and during a second week, they were given an identically appearing non-caffeine beverage. Data were accumulated based on urine tests and a medical examination. Diary entries...

In the spirit of behavioral finance, we study the process of opinion formation among investors using a variant of the two-dimensional voter model with a tunable social temperature. Further, a feedback acting on the temperature is introduced, such that social temperature reacts to market imbalances and thus becomes time dependent. In this toy market model, social temperature represents nervousne...