Symptoms of depression are common in patients with epilepsy with a reported prevalence of as high as 54%1. The fact that depression is a strong predictor of quality of life1 highlights the importance of developing effective screening tools to assist in the diagnosis of depression in the epilepsy outpatient clinic setting. Gilliam et al have reported that the Neurologic Disorders Depression Inve...

PURPOSE To validate the Danish version of the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E), and compare it with the World Health Organization index for psychological well-being (WHO-5) as screening tests for depression and anxiety in epilepsy patients. METHODS Epilepsy outpatients filled out NDDI-E and WHO-5. A Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) as gold ...

INTRODUCTION To translate and validate into Spanish (Spain) the screening instrument of major depressive episodes (MDEs), Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory in Epilepsy (NDDI-E), in patients with epilepsy. METHODS A total of 121 outpatients, aged 18 years and older, with a diagnosis of epilepsy were included. The diagnosis of a current major depressive episode (MDE) was established w...

PURPOSE Depression is a highly prevalent, relatively underdiagnosed and undertreated comorbid condition in epilepsy. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using a validated self-reporting depression scale on the ability to detect depression in people with epilepsy receiving care in a busy clinical setting. METHODS The Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy...

PURPOSE Aggression in people with epilepsy (PWE) is not well understood. We investigated interictal aggression in PWE and clarified predictors and the interrelationships among them. METHOD This was a case-control study. Eligible subjects who consecutively visited the epilepsy clinic completed several questionnaires including the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ), the Revised Stigma Scale (RSS), t...

PURPOSE Fatigue impairs the quality of life (QOL) of epilepsy patients, but few studies have investigated this issue and no systematic analysis of the predictors of fatigue in epilepsy patients has been performed. Thus, we investigated the degree and predictors of fatigue in epilepsy patients. METHODS We enrolled 270 consecutive adult patients with epilepsy and categorized them into three sub...

Currently dust storms are among the most prevalent global environmental issues.They early warning indicators for desertification and climate change. The study intends toanalyse event in Pakistan using normalized detection index (NDDI), brightness temperature(BT) MODIS data of aerosol optical depth (AOD), deep blue angstrom exponent (AE), aerosolindex (AI) HYSPLIT mass trajectory methods. It als...

Dust detection is essential for environmental protection, climate change assessment, and human health issues. Based on the Fengyun-4A (FY-4A)/Advance Geostationary Radiation Imager (AGRI) images, this paper aimed to examine performances of two classic dust algorithms (i.e., brightness temperature difference (BTD) normalized index (NDDI) thresholding algorithms) as well products infrared differe...

The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, Mexico (TCBR) is the southernmost arid or semi-arid zone with highest biodiversity in North America and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Two main hydrographic streams cross TCBR, Salado River (an endogenous river) Grande exogenous river). This study investigated temperature anomalies over past 40 years. We analyzed potential differences between sub-basins ...

PURPOSE Up to 60% of people with epilepsy (PwE) have psychiatric comorbidity including anxiety. Anxiety remains under recognized in PwE. This study investigates if screening tools validated for depression could be used to detect anxiety disorders in PWE. Additionally it analyses the effect of anxiety on QoL. METHOD 261 participants with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy were included. Neurolo...