Evidence-based Psychiatric Care 2015;1;19-26 Abstract The risk of suicidal behaviour in mood disorders is an inherent phenomenon and in patients with major mood disorders it strongly relates to the presence and severity of depressive episode. Suicidal behaviour in patients with mood disorders is state and severity dependent that means that suicidality markedly decreases or vanishes after clinic...

Although there is clinical and historical evidence for a vivid relation between the vestibular and emotional systems, the neuroscientific underpinnings are poorly understood. The "spin doctors" of the nineteenth century used spinning chairs (e.g., Cox's chair) to treat conditions of mania or elevated arousal. On the basis of a recent study on a hexapod motion-simulator, in this prototypic inves...

objective: the purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and possible variables on changing the diagnosis of mood disorder patients to schizophrenia.  method: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 in razi psychiatric hospital. the sample consisted of all the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with the diagnosis of mood disor...

How do media reports about the Covid-19 pandemic influence our mood? Building on social comparison theory, we predicted that reading negative news affecting a similar group would result in an impaired mood. In contrast, dissimilar should lead to improved To test this, 150 undergraduate students read positive or well-being of during pandemic. As predicted, mood assimilation effect occurred for g...

Nature experiences usually lead to restorative effects, such as positive affective states and reduced stress. Even watching nature compared urban images, which are known differ in several image properties that processed at early stages, can effects. One potential pathway explaining how the visual input alone evokes restoration is stages system evoke associations. To study these automatic bottom...

ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been designed as a screening self-report inventory for diagnosing bipolar mood disorders. this study investigated the validity and the optimal cut-off threshold of the persian version of mdq in a group of ïranian depressive patients. methods: ône hundred and twenty patients with probable diagnosis of mood disorders attending psychiatric clini...

Nowadays keeping healthy has become one of the most important topics in our daily life. Keeping good mood is very helpful to one’s health. A lot of smart sensing systems have been designed and developed to detect human emotions. The physiological parameters obtained from the sensing system are then received and analyzed by computers. The physiological dataset collected by computers is then proc...

With the Profile of Mood States (POMS), a German version of an international instrument for the assessment of mood is available. The paper introduces a new short version containing 24 items and four scales. In a study about indoor climate in 4596 office workers only a few missing values were noted. Psychometric analyses showed very good characteristics of the four scales regarding their interna...

Graphical Abstract “Chemistry is fun because it the science of change, nothing really rests. Even solid-state materials breathe, jiggle and morph … I'm always in a good mood when I see “that” sparkle eyes my students …” Find out more about Enrico Salvadori his Introducing Profile.