ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been developed as a self-reporting, brief, and easy-to-use screening instrument to improve identification of bipolar mood disorders. the goals of the present study were to examine the prevalence of this disorder and interrelationship of its symptoms by factor analysis of mdq in a group of pregnant women in ïran. methods: ône thousand and eigh...

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...

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...

linkage studies and epidemiological findings indicate that some possible genes in schizophrenia (scz) and bipolar mood disorder (bpd) are common. numerous evidences for linkage of two diseases on chromosome 22 have been found. these findings suggest that one or more genes in the 22q11.21 region may be involved in the development of both disorders. in the present case-control study, association ...

background: psychiatric disorders are common in hiv-infected patients and for sure have direct impact on both prevention and management of diseases in these patients. in this research, the prevalence of major psychiatric disorders including mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders in hiv-infected patients of rafsanjan and kerman health care centers were determined. materials and methods: eighty t...

aim and background: mood disorders are a significant group of psychiatric disorders. bipolar spectrum disorders are mood disorders that usually remain unrecognized and subsequently undertreated. one of the most useful screening instruments for underdiagnosed bipolar disorders is the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq). this paper presented the persian version and psychometric properties of mdq fo...

54-year-old male patient was admitted in endocrine ward and referred to our hospital for psychiatric consult due to malaise symptoms , dysphoric mood, irritability, insomnia, loss of appetite, increasing the amount of speech, lack of enjoyment of life, hopelessness, thoughts of worthlessness ,thoughts of death (these symptoms was started from 4 months ago ,after some career change ). other symp...

objective: to study the prevalence and demographic characteristics of mood disorders among iranian adults. method: in this cross-sectional population-based epidemiological study (age > 18) in iran, 25180 individuals were selected through a randomized cluster sampling method for a diagnosis using the schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia (sads). they were then interviewed at home by...

introduction: nowadays, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy are the main treatments for bipolar mood disorders. using complementary and alternative medicine has increased over the past decade. valerian is a herb commonly marketed for treatment of insomnia, anxiety and depression however, positive results have also been reported in curing bipolar disorders. the mechanism of valerian’s effectivenes...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to assess prevalence and possible variables on the change of diagnosis in mood disorder patients to schizophrenia. methods: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 at razi psychiatric hospital. the study included all of the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with diagnosis of a mood disorder....