Personal and social resources in children of patients with bipolar affective disorder and children of normal control subjects

1986 ◽  
Vol 143 (7) ◽  
pp. 856-861 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Normal Control ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Control Subjects

scholarly journals The perception of self-produced sensory stimuli in patients with auditory hallucinations and passivity experiences: evidence for a breakdown in self-monitoring

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1131-1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.-J. BLAKEMORE ◽  
J. SMITH ◽  
R. STEEL ◽  
E. C. JOHNSTONE ◽  
C. D. FRITH
Keyword(s):  
Normal Control ◽  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Auditory Hallucinations ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Sensory Stimuli ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

Background. To test the hypothesis that certain psychotic symptomatology is due to a defect in self- monitoring, we investigated the ability of groups of psychiatric patients to differentiate perceptually between self-produced and externally produced tactile stimuli.Methods. Responses to tactile stimulation were assessed in three groups of subjects: schizophrenic patients; patients with bipolar affective disorder or depression; and normal control subjects. Within the psychiatric groups subjects were divided on the basis of the presence or absence of auditory hallucinations and/or passivity experiences. The subjects were asked to rate the perception of a tactile sensation on the palm of their left hand. The tactile stimulation was either self-produced by movement of the subject's right hand or externally produced by the experimenter.Results. Normal control subjects and those psychiatric patients with neither auditory hallucinations nor passivity phenomena experienced self-produced stimuli as less intense, tickly and pleasant than identical, externally produced tactile stimuli. In contrast, psychiatric patients with these symptoms did not show a decrease in their perceptual ratings for tactile stimuli produced by themselves as compared with those produced by the experimenter. This failure to show a difference in perception between self-produced and externally produced stimuli appears to relate to the presence of auditory hallucinations and/or passivity experiences rather than to the diagnosis of schizophrenia.Conclusions. We propose that auditory hallucinations and passivity experiences are associated with an abnormality in the self-monitoring mechanism that normally allows us to distinguish self-produced from externally produced sensations.

scholarly journals A Comparative Personality Profile Study Between Bipolar-affective disorders (Mania) and Normal control group

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
R. Kumar ◽  
A.R. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Normal Control ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Normal Control Group ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Normal Male ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorders

Introduction: Personality is the important core feature and identification of an individual. Some factors in personality may be vulnerable for psychiatric illness.Objective: To compare Personality profile of Bipolar Affective Dirosder with Normal control group.Method: 30 male patients diagnosed as Bipolar affective disorder (mania) and 30 normal male were included in the study, with the aim to determine the comparison of personality characteristic of Bipolar affective disorder (Mania) and Normal control group. Each individual was given the inform consent response than collected Socio demographic and Clinical data sheet after that Young mania rating scale and 16 personality factor was applied for data collection.Result: Present study explore that the Manic (BAD) groups of subject differ significantly on all the factors except Q4 from normal controls. Higher mean scores on factor Q4 means that manic (BAD) are tense, restless, fretful & driven, extremely high tension level was disrupt school and work performance.Conclusion: Both the groups differentiated significantly on all the factors except Q4. The mean score obtained by normal control has higher in comparison of BAD-manic category.

Rating scale for the assessment of communication disorders in schizophrenics

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 352-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Olivier ◽  
MC Hardy-Baylé ◽  
S Lancrenon ◽  
J Fermanian ◽  
Y Sarfati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunction ◽  
Normal Control ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Total Correlation ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Clinical Description

SummaryTaking up the Bleulerian view of a clinical description based on a pathogenic model, we propose a rating scale for the assessment of communication disorders in schizophrenic patients. The scale consists of clinical items that could be the direct expression of the three hypotheses of cognitive dysfunction which have been postulated to explain communication dysfunction in these patients. We assessed the frequency of the 16 items in the scale in a total of 80 subjects (43 schizophrenic subjects, ten manic subjects, 17 depressive subjects and ten normal control subjects). The results of this study showed that this item schedule was specific to schizophrenic patients and, in particular, could statistically significantly discriminate schizophrenic patients from psychotic patients with affective disorder. The methodological qualities of the scale were explored and proved accurate, except for the reliability which is too low for some items and the item-to-total correlation which is too low for one item of the scale.

scholarly journals Increased Prevalence of Minor Physical Anomalies Among the Healthy First-Degree Relatives of Bipolar I Patients – Results With the Méhes Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tímea Csulak ◽  
Györgyi Csábi ◽  
Róbert Herold ◽  
Viktor Vörös ◽  
Sára Jeges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Normal Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Bipolar I Disorder ◽  
Somatic Markers ◽  
High Arched Palate ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Minor Physical Anomalies ◽  
Normal Controls

Minor physical anomalies are somatic markers of aberrant neurodevelopment, so the higher prevalence of these signs among the relatives of bipolar I patients can confirm minor physical anomalies as endophenotypes. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of minor physical anomalies in first-degree healthy relatives of patients with bipolar I disorder compared to normal control subjects. Using a list of 57 minor physical anomalies (the Méhes Scale), 20 first-degree unaffected relatives of patients with the diagnosis of bipolar I disorder and as a comparison 20 matched normal control subjects were examined. Minor physical anomalies were more common in the ear, head, mouth and trunk regions among the relatives of bipolar I patients compared to normal controls. By the differentiation of minor malformations and phenogenetic variants, we have found that both minor malformations and phenogenetic variants were more common among the relatives of bipolar I patients compared to the control group, while individual analyses showed, that one minor malformation (sole crease) and one phenogenetic variant (high arched palate) were more prevalent in the relative group. This is the first report in literature on the increased prevalence of minor physical anomalies among the first-degree unaffected relatives of bipolar I patients. The study support the concept, that minor physical anomalies can be endophenotypic markers of bipolar I affective disorder.

Maori women's experience of bipolar affective disorder: Pathways to recover

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parewahaika Harris ◽  
Waikaremoana Waitoki ◽  
Linda Nikora
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Women's Experience
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