Irritability and sleep problems are common symptoms that span a range of internalizing externalizing mental health disorders. While poor has been associated with related to irritability (e.g., anxiety depression), few studies have directly tested the association between quality whether is direct or mediated by separate mechanism. The present study used self-report measures test in 458 adults ag...

PURPOSE Irritability has been reported in epilepsy patients. We identified associated factors for interictal irritability in epilepsy patients. METHOD Adult epilepsy patients who received antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) for at least 1year were invited to participate in this study. For eligible patients, several questionnaires, such as the Irritability in Adult Patients with Epilepsy (I-Epi), the K...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to compare range of motion, subjective outcomes, and the prevalence of reoperation in groups of frozen shoulder patients with either low or moderate/high irritability treated with the same total end range time-maximizing protocol. DESIGN A total of 36 patients were treated with the total end range time-maximizing protocol (12 patien...

The importance of irritability, as measured among the symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), has dramatically come to the fore in recent years. New diagnostic categories rely on the distinct clinical utility of irritability, and models of psychopathology suggest it plays a key role in explaining developmental pathways within and between disorders into adulthood. However, only a few st...

In 1913 Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose published a monograph (see the coverpage in fig.1) “Researches on irritability of plants”’ [1]. The concept of irritability [2] had its origin in the works of Francis Glisson and Albrecht von Haller [3]. On the basis of experiments performed on animals, Haller emphasised the distinction between ‘sensibility’ and ‘irritability’the ability to perceive a stimulus i...