Providing abandoned children the necessary medical and psychological care as possible after their institutionalization may minimize developmental delays. We describe psychomotor development in infants admitted to an orphanage in Khartoum, Sudan, assessed at admission and over an 18-month follow-up. Psychological state and psychomotor quotients were determined using a simplified Neonatal Behavio...

On a sample of 65 subjects rheoencephalography (REG)--the electrical impedance plethysmographic method for assessment of cerebral circulation was applied, as well as an electronic psychodiagnostic instrument Complex Reactionmeter Drenovac (CRD) constructed for assessment of complex psychomotor reactions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential differences between subjects with and w...

In this research topic, we have gathered articles focusing on the psychomotor component of psychiatric disorders. Indeed,motor symptoms remain as an important dimension of psychopathology that can be assessed by objective means. Particularly, in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia, motor signs have been acknowledged from the very early descriptions (1–3). But, psychomotor abnormalities ...

Psychomotor disturbances are a classic feature of major depressive disorders. These can manifest as lack of facial expressions and decreased speech production, reduced body posture and mobility, and slowed voluntary movement. The neural correlates of psychomotor disturbances in depression are poorly understood but it has been suggested that outputs from the cingulate motor area (CMA) to striata...

Cannabis use has increased considerably during the last 15 years. One of the major problems dealing with cannabis use is driving under the influence of drugs. With the exception of ethyl alcohol, the majority of the epidemiological studies have shown that cannabis is the most frequently detected substance in people suspected of driving under the influence of drugs. Experimental studies are ther...

Modern digital devices and appliances are capable of monitoring the timing of button presses, or finger interactions in general, with a sub-millisecond accuracy. However, the massive amount of high resolution temporal information that these devices could collect is currently being discarded. Multiple studies have shown that the act of pressing a button triggers well defined brain areas which ar...

Cardiac conduction disorders caused sudden serious illnesses in six infants that might have been fatal if diagnosis and treatment had been delayed. These cases provide circumstantial evidence to support a link between cardiac conduction disorders and some sudden infant deaths. A further potential long-term effect of these disorders is illustrated in one child in whom psychomotor retardation see...

Impaired insight in schizophrenia spectrum disorders has been linked to several psychopathologic features including positive symptoms, although not all dimensions of psychopathology have been studied and confounds from other symptoms have not been ruled out. In addition, the nature of the association between insight and specific positive symptoms, in particular delusions, remains unclear. The p...