Results Mood stabilizers are used in 14% of the sample with a predominancy in the female gender (85.7%), a global average age 50.6 ± 12.2 years. Regarding personal psychiatric background, there’s an absence of these in the first place (64.3%), followed by the presence of previous depressive episodes (21.4%) and dysthymic disorder (7.1%). In none of these cases there was toxic abuse. There is a ...

OBJECTIVE Mood disorders are associated with a high societal cost, mainly due to presenteeism. The objective of this study was to review the use of 10 instruments that rate presenteeism in mood disorders and to provide recommendations regarding the appropriateness of instruments in different study settings. METHODS A systematic review of the literature was conducted to identify scales used to...

The nature and extent of the impact of gender and reproductive function on mood has been the subject of speculation and controversy for centuries. Over the past 50 years, however, it has become increasingly clear that not only is the brain a major target of reproductive steroid hormones, but additionally, the steroid hormones, as neuroregulators, create a context thai influences a broad range o...

williams, watts, macleod and mathews' (1988) model of anxiety and depression leads to the prediction that anxious patients will show mood – congreuent implicit memory bias, while depressed patients will show mood-congruent explicit memory bias.although this prediction has been supported by some researchers (denny & hunt, 1992 mathews, moog, et al , 1989 watkins, et al, 1992), the reliabili...

aim and background: mood disorders are a significant group of psychiatric disorders. bipolar spectrum disorders are mood disorders that usually remain unrecognized and subsequently undertreated. one of the most useful screening instruments for underdiagnosed bipolar disorders is the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq). this paper presented the persian version and psychometric properties of mdq fo...

To the Editor: I am writing with concerns about the interpretation and application of the important findings of the recent study reported by Altshuler et al. In my work at a university-affiliated teaching hospital and in other settings over the past 5 years, I have seen near-universal (well in excess of 80%) prescribing of antidepressants to patients with bipolar disorder. In many cases, these ...

Depression in children and adolescents with epilepsy is common. Depression worsen quality of life in epilepsy patients. Neurobiological, social, and iatrogenic factors may play a role in depressive disorder development. We report a patient with partial epilepsy secondary to neonatal stroke, who developed depressive disorder as a result of levetiracetam (LEV) treatment. Our report illustrates th...

This study aimed to assess the prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its characteristics and risk factors in children with epilepsy at a tertiary medical center in New Delhi. Children with active epilepsy, aged 6 to 12 years, were assessed for ADHD using DSM-IV-TR criteria. Epilepsy and psychiatric characteristics, sociodemographic indicators, and use of antiepilepti...