RATIONALE It is known that epilepsy has a severe impact in the quality of life of the patients; however, it affects the lives of all family members. The psychosocial repercussions of epilepsy are often of greater significance than the seizures themselves. METHODS This was a prospective study, conducted from January 2005 to December 2005 at the pediatric epilepsy clinic of our University Hospi...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perception of emotional intelligence and beliefs in the extent to which exercising leads to mood-enhancement. methods volunteer participants (n=315) completed a 33-item self-report measure of trait emotional intelligence and an exercise-mood regulation scale. results emotional intelligence significantly correlated with be...

purpose :   the present study investigated the psychometric properties of a malaysian adapted brunel mood scale.   methods:   the questionnaire was administered to 355 young sport athletes with a mean age of 14.69 + 1.70 years. confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) and cronbach's alpha were used to determine the factorial validity and the internal consistency of the questionnaire respectively. res...

Mood disorders impact social functioning, but might contribute to experiences-like affective distress-that might result in increased cooperative behavior under certain circumstances. We recruited participants with a history of bipolar I disorder (n = 28), major depressive disorder (n = 30), and healthy controls (n = 27)-to play a well-validated behavioral economic Trust Game, a task that provid...

Mood disorders impact social functioning, but might contribute to experiences—like affective distress—that might result in increased cooperative behavior under certain circumstances. We recruited participants with a history of bipolar I disorder (n = 28), major depressive disorder (n = 30), and healthy controls (n = 27) -to play a wellvalidated behavioral economic Trust Game, a task that provid...

objective: to compare the clinical profile and pattern of catatonic symptoms of patients with schizophrenia and mood disorder. method: records of 13,968 patients seen between 1983-1985 and 2003-2005 were reviewed for symptoms of catatonia by resident doctors in psychiatry. cases in which the diagnosis were schizophrenia or mood disorder were then noted. socio-demographic and clinical features w...

We determined the interrelations of chronological age, age at seizure onset, duration of seizure disorder, cognitive functioning (IQ), scales of activities of daily living, depressive mood disorder and measures of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Furthermore, we investigated the association of the laterality of seizure onset zone and absence/presence of hippocampal atrophy and/or scleros...

Following in the footsteps of Billard and Ballantyne, Edith Potter founded from the 1930s onwards the modern subspecialty of perinatal pathology. Her name is eponymously linked with the facial characteristics of infants with bilateral renal agenesis.