the knowledge in psychiatric genetics, neuroanatomy, functional neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, neuropsychopharmacology and clinical psychiatry, has immensely increased in the last decades. here, the psychiatric conditions schizophrenia, affective disorders and autism spectrum disorder are discussed. Reported findings in relevant literature and our clinical experience in adult psychiatry in line...

the objective of the study was to compare the attention-deficit/ hyperactivity, and substance abuse disorders background in the parents of children with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (adhd), and the parents of normal children. the available sampling method was used to choose 400 parents of children (200 parents of children with adhd and 200 parents of normal children), the ages of c...

Seventy-two spouses of subjects with recurrent primary affective disorders (PAD), were investigated for the presence of psychiatric disorders in their lives and in those of their first degree relatives, and compared with 71 spouses of non-psychiatrically ill control subjects. No difference was found in the risk for PAD; on the other hand spouses of affective patients manifested a greater occurr...

The relation between cognitive distortion and depression, found in adult affective disorders, has not previously been demonstrated in childhood affective disorders. Therefore, a Cognitive Bias Questionnaire for Children (CBQC) was developed to examine this relation in a sample of 39 psychiatrically disturbed children and adolescents. The depressed-distorted (DD) scale from the CBQC was signific...

Impairments in social cognition are now recognized as core illness features in psychotic and affective disorders. Despite the significant disability caused by social cognitive abnormalities, treatments for this symptom dimension are lacking. Here, we describe the evidence demonstrating abnormalities in social cognition in schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder, as well a...

BACKGROUND Cancer is a serious public health problem worldwide, and its relationship with affective disorders is not clear. Aims To investigate alcohol- and tobacco-related cancer risk among patients with affective disorders in a large Taiwanese cohort. METHOD Records of newly admitted patients with affective disorders from January 1997 through December 2002 were retrieved from the Psychiatri...