Background and Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of borderline personality disorder (BPD) characteristics as a predictor of suicidal in patients with bipolar disorder. Method:  This research was a cross-sectional study and the people who were selected were 50 (25 women, 25 men) who were hospitalized in Shahid Beheshti hospital. They had referred to the psychiatrists an...

Abstract Background Bipolar disorder is a common psychiatric with massive psychological and social burden. Research indicates that treatment adherence not good in these patients. The families’ knowledge about the fundamental for managing their patients’ disorder. purpose of present study was to investigate family members sample Iranian patients bipolar I (BD-I) explore potential reasons non-adh...

Many desirable material properties may be associated with disorder exhibiting local periodicity or correlations. However, few systems allow systematic studies into the effects of intrinsic crystallographic conflict on correlated disorder. The authors use epitaxial matching to stabilize an exemplar system: pseudo-bcc U${}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}$Mo${}_{x}$ alloy, which exhibits a significant mismatch...

Objectives. Both results of the odor identification and cardiac (123)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine accumulation have been investigated for their potential to enhance the detection of pathogenesis resembling that of Lewy body-related α-synucleinopathies in patients clinically diagnosed as having idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. Methods. We performed both the Odor Stick Identification Test for...

BACKGROUND Cognitive deficits have been documented in patients with bipolar disorder. Further, it has been suggested that the degree and type of cognitive impairment differ between bipolar I and bipolar II disorder, but data is conflicting and remains inconclusive. This study aimed to clarify the suggested differences in cognitive impairment between patients with bipolar I and II disorder in a ...

Objectives:  The accuracy of diagnosis in mental disorders, such as depression is the basis of correct treatment. The present study aimed to investigate the sensitivity and specificity of the new multidimensional depression scale in diagnosing depressive disorder. Methods: Two groups of participants were assessed by the new multidimensional depression scale (NMDS) and structured clinical inter...

Borderline personality disorder (PD) has been the most studied PD. Research has examined the relationship between borderline PD and most axis I diagnostic classes such as eating disorders, mood disorders, and substance use disorders. However, there is little information regarding the relationship of borderline PD and overall comorbidity with all classes of axis I disorders assessed simultaneous...

the course of t he disorder is acute and chronic.the acute form o f the disease occurs most c ommonly in children , but is seen i n adults as well . the chronic recurrent f orm occurs most o f t e n in women between t wenty and forty years of age. we have studied 3000 cases from the patients o f hematological and internal department in imam khornaini medical ~~ntre , uni. of tehr an/ i ran. we ...