Cognitive behavioral group therapy on a sample of obese female patients with binge-eating disorder: Egyptian study
Conclusion: Cognitive behavioral group therapy showed effectiveness in improvement of self-esteem with less concerns about weight, shape, eating, and dietary restraint. Reduced frequency of binge eating episodes and less psychological distress were also areas of efficacy with no change in BMI. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Relationship of serum interleukin-6 and cognitive functions in patients with schizophrenia, a case–control study
Conclusion: Patients with schizophrenia have higher levels of serum IL-6. They show poorer cognitive performance in the domains of sustained attention, verbal and visual working memory, processing speed and executive functions, and visual memory deficits. There is a correlation between serum IL-6 and visual memory deficits in patients with schizophrenia. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Obsessive compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia
Conclusion: OCS and OCD are more common and more severe in schizophrenic patients than in general population. The global functioning is worse in the schizophrenic patients with OCD than in those patients without OCD. Moreover, serotonin dysfunction may be involved in various mental disorder- related OCS. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Sexual dysfunctions in drug-naive male patients with first-episode schizophrenia: a case–control study
Conclusion: The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in psychotropic drug-naive male patients with first-episode schizophrenia was generally high and would suggest that sexual dysfunction is an integral part of the development of illness and unlikely to be related to the prolactin-increasing properties of the antipsychotic medication. The study also concludes that greater symptom severity in the patient group was associated with greater impairment in sexual function. Therefore, sexual assessment should be a part of every psychiatric examination. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
The assessment of sexuality and sex hormone levels in a group of synthetic opioid-dependent patients
Conclusion: According to our study, it was shown that there was an effect of synthetic opioid dependency not only on the sexual functions of dependent men, including their erectile function, sexual orgasm, and desire, and their level of sexual esteem in which they experience low sexual esteem and low sexual preoccupation and high sexual depression compared with nondependent men but also on the level of their testosterone levels especially and high prolactin, which inhibit their sexual desire compared with nondependent men. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with mood disorders
Conclusion: The prevalence of the MetS among BDs patients is high (37.6%). Although this study found that the prevalence of MetS in BDs patients was according to ATP III (24.8%), it is increased when ATP III-A (35.0%) and International Diabetes Federation (36.3%) were taken into account. There are statistically significant differences between patients with MetS and those without MetS as regards age and duration of the illness. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
A longitudinal study of psychiatric consequences of hepatitis C virus patients receiving interferon therapy
This study aimed to identify the possible psychiatric complications in patients infected chronically with HCV and follow up these complications on treatment with pegylated IFN plus ribavirin.
Patients and methods: This is a longitudinal follow-up, comparative (case–control) study conducted on 90 patients, all of whom were subjected to a semistructured interview, psychometric assessment by International Classification of Diseases-10 Symptom Checklist for Mental Disorder version 1.1 for psychiatric evaluation, laboratory investigations to exclude decompensate liver cases, liver biopsy, and abdominal ultrasonography.
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Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Cholinesterase inhibitors and affective symptoms: a case report on long-term donepezil use in Alzheimer’s and late onset of manic symptoms
Cholinesterase inhibitors, possibly have a role in the treatment of disorder involving the neuro cognition. Cholinesterase inhibitors like donepezil has been approved by Food and Drug Administration for mild moderate and sever dementia in Alzheimer s disease. Here we present a case report of a 92 year-old Caucasian female with Alzheimer's dementia with no personal or family history of psychiatric disorder presented with symptoms of pressured speech, flight of ideas, grandiosity, paranoia, and she endorsed euphoric mood. Weeks prior to presentation, patient had depressive symptoms. Patient received Donepezil 10mg daily and ...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Case report Source Type: research
Psychiatric comorbidities in a sample of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children in pediatric psychiatric clinics of El-Dakahlia Hospital of Mental Health
Conclusion: High rates of psychiatric comorbidities were found in children with ADHD (90%). Thus, management of comorbidities as well as ADHD is required to obtain the best outcomes for the patients. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Assessment of cognitive functions in children on regular hemodialysis and after renal transplantation
Conclusion: Children on regular HD and after successful RTx have more impaired cognitive functions than healthy controls. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Cognitive function assessment in adolescent patients on hemodiaylsis
Background: Studying the impact of chronic kidney disease on neurocognitive functions is a critical element for providing optimal care to these children who might suffer from its detrimental consequence on their psychosocial life.
Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the cognitive functions in adolescents with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) under regular hemodialysis compared with healthy controls.
Patients and methods: We studied 40 adolescents – 20 patients with ESRD on regular dialysis and 20 controls closely matched with the patient in terms of their age, sex, and educational level. Patients were recruited from ...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Factors affecting stigma of epilepsy
Conclusion: Factors suggested to have an impact on stigma of epilepsy include seizure-related aspects such as seizure type, frequency, duration of illness, type and number of medications, and EEG changes, and individual-related aspects such as age, sex, residence, occupational status, marital status, educational level, age at seizure onset, and the affection of the quality of life. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
A comparative study of the cognitive side effects of bitemporal and bifrontal electroconvulsive therapy
Conclusion: BF-ECT was associated with fewer cognitive side effects and early recovery than BT-ECT. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Theory of mind deficits in symptom remittent schizophrenia: a state or a trait?
This study aimed to compare ToM impairments among symptom remittent patients with first-episode schizophrenia, their unaffected biological full siblings, and controls and also determine whether there is any association between clinical profile of schizophrenic patients and components of ToM abilities.
Patients and methods: The study included 50 male patients with symptom remittent first-episode schizophrenia, 50 biological unaffected full siblings, and 50 healthy individuals. The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) consists of a series of videotaped vignettes that are designed to measure social perception abilities...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Metabolic dysfunction related to typical and atypical antipsychotics in drug-naive patients with nonaffective psychosis: a prospective comparative study
Conclusion: AP medications, although providing a tremendous change in the lives of patients and giving them a better future, have imposed more of a burden on their metabolic profiles. This is especially true of atypical compounds. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
