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The findings indicate that anxiety disorders are common in the setting of medical disease and are associated with several types of psychosomatic presentations. The links between agoraphobia without history of panic disorder and illness denial may provide an explanation for some discrepancies that ha...
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PMID: 20584526
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Maternal opinions were similar to those of their children for the overall impact on OH-QoL of malocclusion, but mothers were more dissatisfied with the appearance of their children's teeth and overestimated the emotional impact of malocclusion. It would be useful to develop a specific measure to ass...
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PMID: 20451782
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Use of the factor scores can assist in determining ICPs for BD and related disorders, and may provide more specific targets for development of new treatments. We highlight strong ICPs (Processing Speed with Interference Resolution, Visual Memory, Fine Motor Dexterity) for further study, consistent w...
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PMID: 19800130
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This article reports a field study on noise annoyance from military shooting with small, midsize, and heavy weapons that was carried out among 1002 residents living near eight different training grounds of the Swiss army. The goal of the study was to derive the exposure-annoyance relationship for mi...
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PMID: 20370012
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L Eugene Arnold,
Cristan Farmer,
Helena Chmura Kraemer,
Mark Davies,
Andrea Witwer,
Shirley Chuang,
Robert DiSilvestro,
Christopher J McDougle,
James McCracken,
Benedetto Vitiello,
Michael G Aman,
Lawrence Scahill,
David J Posey and
Naomi B Swiezy
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Only baseline severity moderated treatment response: Higher severity showed greater improvement for risperidone but not for placebo. Weight gain mediated treatment response negatively: those who gained more weight improved less with risperidone and more with placebo. Compliance correlated with outco...
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PMID: 20415603
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Menopause is the descent in circulating estrogens that manifests clinically for the climacteric symptoms. These symptoms motivate the patient to consult to the physician.
To know which are the symptoms that motivate women in the climacteric to begin hormonal therapy.
Atransverse study was settled, 6...
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PMID: 20939230
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These data suggest that, over an approximately 2-year follow-up period, youth with SMD are unlikely to develop (hypo-)manic or mixed episodes....
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PMID: 20410732
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To determine the effect of serotonin transporter polymorphism promoter region (5-HTTPLR) genotypic variation (low, intermediate, and high expression groups) on response to escitalopram treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
The st...
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PMID: 20020537
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To determine the effect of serotonin transporter polymorphism promoter region (5-HTTPLR) genotypic variation (low, intermediate, and high expression groups) on response to escitalopram treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
The st...
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PMID: 20020537
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To determine the effect of serotonin transporter polymorphism promoter region (5-HTTPLR) genotypic variation (low, intermediate, and high expression groups) on response to escitalopram treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
The st...
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PMID: 20020537
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To determine the effect of serotonin transporter polymorphism promoter region (5-HTTPLR) genotypic variation (low, intermediate, and high expression groups) on response to escitalopram treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
The st...
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PMID: 20020537
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The presentation of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents may vary from its presentation in adults. Rage, irritability, and long episodes are common manifestations of mania in young people with bipolar disorder. Frequent comorbid disorders in young patients include ADHD and anxiety disorders....
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PMID: 20193644
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When the first episode of mania is not directly related to a somatic or toxic disease it indicates bipolar disorder. These former possibilities must always be excluded from a laboratory and morphological assessment. They are clinically difficult to identify mostly because the clinical presentation i...
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PMID: 20141804
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We hypothesized that outpatients with BPD (compared to outpatients without a personality disorder; non-PD) would demonstrate heightened subjective emotional reactivity to both stressors, as well as a delayed return to baseline levels of emotional arousal. Results provide evidence for context- and em...
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PMID: 20399337
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Teething symptoms were highly reported in this population. Pediatric dentists should be accessible and provide adequate orientation when symptoms can be managed at home or immediate referral to health services when more serious diseases are suspected....
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PMID: 20578655
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High VE may exert an effect on IMT for men with impaired arterial elasticity. The results suggest that high vitally exhausted men with reduced arterial elasticity are at increased risk of atherosclerosis in early life and imply men's decreased stress coping in relation to stressful psychological cor...
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PMID: 20624297
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Tinnitus, the perception of sound in the absence of an auditory stimulus, is perceived by about 1 in 10 adults, and for at least 1 in 100, tinnitus severely affects their quality of life. Because tinnitus is frequently associated with irritability, agitation, stress, insomnia, anxiety and depression...
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PMID: 19712015
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Aripiprazole was efficacious and generally safe and well tolerated in the treatment of children and adolescents with irritability associated with autistic disorder....
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PMID: 19797985
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Smokers with higher levels of anhedonia reported a greater number of past failed quit attempts and a higher proportion of quit attempts that ended in rapid relapse within 24 hr, rs > .20, ps < .05. Anhedonia did not consistently correlate with smoking heaviness, chronicity, and dependence motives. A...
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PMID: 19571250
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The purpose of this investigation was to examine (a) whether irritability mediates the relation between executive functioning (EF) and alcohol-related aggression and (b) whether the alcohol-aggression relation is better explained by the interactive effects of EF and irritability above and beyond the...
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PMID: 19769424
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Background There is a growing interest in the use of cognitive approaches for the treatment of psychological difficulties with people who have intellectual disability. The aim of the present study was to investigate the properties of an anger inventory, the relationship between self-reported a...
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PMID: 19404832
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We describe a 39-week gestational age, male infant with hypotonicity, functional short gut, and microduplication of chromosome 22 who was treated with gabapentin to control pain and irritability. During his hospitalization, the infant experienced multiple complications including respiratory distress...
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PMID: 19637954
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Fourteen percent of these very elderly subjects had paranoid symptoms with concomitant anxious agitation and/or irritability/anger. Hallucinations and paranoid symptoms were both associated with a pattern of behavioural symptoms including both anxious agitation and irritability/anger simultaneously...
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PMID: 19291080
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The purpose of the study was to examine the relations of effortful control (EC), impulsivity, and negative emotionality to at least borderline clinical levels of symptoms and change in maladjustment over four years. Children's (N = 214; 77% European American; M age = 73 months) externalizing and int...
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PMID: 19586175
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We report on a 7-month-old infant with Kawasaki disease (KD) whose only manifestations were high-grade fever of 7 days duration, "non-toxic look" and "extreme irritability", thereby not meeting the criteria for the classical or the atypical form of the disease. The diagnosis was confirmed by the dem...
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PMID: 19381640
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The point prevalence of comorbid depression in dementia (Stages 2-6) on psychogeriatric nursing home wards was 19%. "Depressed mood," "irritability," and "fatigue" were the most prevalent depressive symptoms. Residents taking antidepressants at the time of the PDC-dAD depression diagnosis showed mor...
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PMID: 19554671
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Jeffrey Hunt,
Boris Birmaher,
Henrietta Leonard,
Michael Strober,
David Axelson,
Neal Ryan,
Mei Yang,
Marykay Gill,
Jennifer Dyl,
Christianne Esposito-Smythers,
Lance Swenson,
Benjamin Goldstein,
Tina Goldstein,
Robert Stout and
Martin Keller
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The results of this study support the DSM-IV A criteria for mania in youths. Irritable-only mania exists, particularly in younger children, but similar to elated-only mania, it occurs infrequently. The fact that the irritable-only subgroup has similar clinical characteristics and family histories of...
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PMID: 19465878
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A multivariate analysis of variance provided significant effects for the individual noise sensitivity (P < 0.01) and the kind of task being performed (P < 0.01). To determine to what extent the rating scales lead to a differentiation of the four groups, a 2-factorial discriminant analysis was carrie...
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PMID: 19002701
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Our data suggest a developmental model of mental disorder whereby oppositionality is an interim shared manifestation of different dimensions of psychopathology with distinct outcomes....
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PMID: 19318881
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The present study had the objective of investigating the possibilities/limits of sleep recovery in women workers with medium level in nursing that develop their activities in night shifts in a first-aid clinic at a public hospital in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This was an analytic study, wi...
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PMID: 19653561
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Several studies suggest that serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) exert a more rapid effect when used for the treatment of symptoms such as anger and irritability then when used for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or anxiety. In line with this, premenstrual irritability can be effectively...
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PMID: 18596686
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These subjective data suggest that women perceived a wide range of external, usually interpersonal, influences as relevant to their mood, however menstrual cycle was rarely mentioned. Perceptions of influences on mood are statistically related to frequency of moods. In addition, ethnicity and paid e...
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PMID: 19485233
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Out of 20 bipolar patients, 6 subjects reported mood swings prior to the onset of affective disorder. Subjects with mood swings prior to the onset of bipolar disorder significantly correlated with a positive family history of affective disorders. Concerning cyclothymic and irritable temperament, bip...
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PMID: 19672137
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Four groups of age specific prevalence patterns were identified after adjustment for the influence of educational level, perceived health and mood, body mass index, smoking habits, use of hormone replacement therapy, and use of other symptom relieving therapy. Only five symptoms (insomnia, leg pain,...
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PMID: 19171031
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Structural equation models are commonly used to analyze 2-mode data sets, in which a set of objects is measured on a set of variables. The underlying structure within the object mode is evaluated using latent variables, which are measured by indicators coming from the variable mode. Additionally, wh...
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PMID: 19071998
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Patients treated with antidepressants were ten times more likely to develop ACID than those who were not (Hazard ratio=9.95, CI=1.103-89.717, P=0.04). However, the hazard ratio dropped to 1.05 (P=0.99) when corrected for significant covariates, notably past antidepressant-related manic switch and se...
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PMID: 18565592
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TEMPS-A Lisbon is a reliable and valid instrument. The only relatively weak factor is the depressive, which is similar to other language versions. Gender differences and correlations of temperaments are generally similar to other countries. What appears relatively special to the Portuguese is the re...
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PMID: 18440648
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We described seven pediatric RLS patients. All of the parents of our patients had difficult times to make their children sleep due to irritability, restlessness, and demanding bedtime routines. All patients had asked their parents to rub their feet in bed, and it took more than half an hour to sooth...
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PMID: 19039990
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between watching the news and activation of the autonomic nervous system. A questionnaire was completed, and a saliva sample was collected from each of 33 participants before and after viewing a news and then a comedy clip. After exposure to...
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PMID: 19093600
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Children and adolescents diagnosed with autism and related pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) often sustain irritability, including aggression, self-injurious behavior, and tantrums. Research to date supports the use of the atypical antipsychotics as a first-line pharmacologic treatment for th...
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PMID: 18775367
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This article summarizes the current understanding of infant crying and sleeping problems, together with the implications of this understanding for services and research, with a focus on the first months of infancy.
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PMID: 18710670
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Thirty patients (14%) experienced a paradoxical effect. Eight of them (4%) developed de novo GTCS. We could not demonstrate any association between the paradoxical effect of levetiracetam and type of epilepsy or the antiepileptic comedication used. However we found that the paradoxical effect develo...
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PMID: 18479387
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Retention rate was 69.7% after 26 weeks on a median levetiracetam dosage of 22 mg/kg/day. Four children dropped-out because levetiracetam was ineffective, four because seizure frequency increased and/or seizures became more severe, and two because they developed aggressive behaviour. Compared to the...
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PMID: 17950011
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The 14-item Self-Rating Scale and the 5-item Observer Rating Scale showed evidence for internal consistency (Self-Rating: n = 36 patients, Cronbach's alpha = 0.9257, mean interitem correlation = 0.4690; Observer Rating: Cronbach's alpha = 0.7418, mean interitem correlation = 0.3616), Self-Rating tes...
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PMID: 18592028
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This study describes ten cases of filicides committed by mothers who intentionally killed one or more of their children within 12 months after delivery. The data were collected from police and court records, forensic psychiatric records, autopsy reports, and other medical records. The mean age of th...
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PMID: 18587626
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We examined the safety and efficacy of levetiracetam for the treatment of PMDD. One hundred twenty-three potential patients were prospectively screened to enroll seven patients into the open-label treatment phase of the study. PMDD was diagnosed per DSM-IV-TR criteria and two consecutive months of p...
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PMID: 18493713
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Irritability is an important symptom in patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. It is a major source of distress to patients and their carers and can lead to social and family dysfunction. Despite this, there has been little systematic research on irritability in psychiatry. The development of an...
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PMID: 18374422
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