scholarly journals Asperger syndrome from childhood into adulthood

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 341-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Berney
Keyword(s):  
Asperger Syndrome ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Psychiatric Issues

Asperger syndrome, a form of autism with normal ability and normal syntactical speech, is associated with a variety of comorbid psychiatric disorders. The disorder is well known to child psychiatry, and we are beginning to recognise the extent of its impact in adulthood. The article reviews the diagnosis and assessment of Asperger syndrome and its links with a wide range of psychiatric issues, including mental disorder, offending and mental capacity. It also describes the broader, non-psychiatric management of Asperger syndrome itself, which includes social and occupational support and education, before touching on the implications the disorder has for our services.

Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Asperger Syndrome/High-functioning Autism: A Community- and Clinic-based Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1080-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marja-Leena Mattila ◽  
Tuula Hurtig ◽  
Helena Haapsamo ◽  
Katja Jussila ◽  
Sanna Kuusikko-Gauffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asperger Syndrome ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
High Functioning Autism ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders

Treating insomnia in patients with comorbid psychiatric disorders: A focused review.

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila N. Garland ◽  
Ivan Vargas ◽  
Michael A. Grandner ◽  
Michael L. Perlis
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders

Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders and Cocaine Abuse

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schottenfeld ◽  
◽  
Kathleen Carroll ◽  
Bruce Rounsaville
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Cocaine Abuse ◽  
Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders

RepPer: Perception of Psychiatric Disorders on Twitter in French (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Delanys ◽  
Farah Benamara ◽  
Véronique Moriceau ◽  
François Olivier ◽  
Josiane Mothe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Negative Polarity ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Annotation Scheme ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Initial Dataset

BACKGROUND With the advent of digital technology and specifically user generated contents in social media, new ways emerged for studying possible stigma of people in relation with mental health. Several pieces of work studied the discourse conveyed about psychiatric pathologies on Twitter considering mostly tweets in English and a limited number of psychiatric disorders terms. This paper proposes the first study to analyze the use of a wide range of psychiatric terms in tweets in French. OBJECTIVE Our aim is to study how generic, nosographic and therapeutic psychiatric terms are used on Twitter in French. More specifically, our study has three complementary goals: (1) to analyze the types of psychiatric word use namely medical, misuse, irrelevant, (2) to analyze the polarity conveyed in the tweets that use these terms (positive/negative/neural), and (3) to compare the frequency of these terms to those observed in related work (mainly in English ). METHODS Our study has been conducted on a corpus of tweets in French posted between 01/01/2016 to 12/31/2018 and collected using dedicated keywords. The corpus has been manually annotated by clinical psychiatrists following a multilayer annotation scheme that includes the type of word use and the opinion orientation of the tweet. Two analysis have been performed. First a qualitative analysis to measure the reliability of the produced manual annotation, then a quantitative analysis considering mainly term frequency in each layer and exploring the interactions between them. RESULTS One of the first result is a resource as an annotated dataset . The initial dataset is composed of 22,579 tweets in French containing at least one of the selected psychiatric terms. From this set, experts in psychiatry randomly annotated 3,040 tweets that corresponds to the resource resulting from our work. The second result is the analysis of the annotations; it shows that terms are misused in 45.3% of the tweets and that their associated polarity is negative in 86.2% of the cases. When considering the three types of term use, 59.5% of the tweets are associated to a negative polarity. Misused terms related to psychotic disorders (55.5%) are more frequent to those related to mood disorders (26.5%). CONCLUSIONS Some psychiatric terms are misused in the corpora we studied; which is consistent with the results reported in related work in other languages. Thanks to the great diversity of studied terms, this work highlighted a disparity in the representations and ways of using psychiatric terms. Moreover, our study is important to help psychiatrists to be aware of the term use in new communication media such as social networks which are widely used. This study has the huge advantage to be reproducible thanks to the framework and guidelines we produced; so that the study could be renewed in order to analyze the evolution of term usage. While the newly build dataset is a valuable resource for other analytical studies, it could also serve to train machine learning algorithms to automatically identify stigma in social media.

The Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood, ed. 2, by Charles R. Shaw, M.D. and Alexander R. Lucas, M.D. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Educational Division/Meredith Corporation, 1970, 499 pp., $12.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-687
Author(s):  
Robert G. Aug
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Child Psychiatrist ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Weak Point ◽  
Strong Point ◽  
Points Of View

This is an excellent basic textboook of child psychiatry; written primarily for the child psychiatrist, it has much to offer the practicing pediatrician, primarily because it brings its rich array of information into a practical clinical framework. The book's strong point is its success at pulling together, into a unified framework, data from multiple different points of view. Its main weak point is its less-than-ideal updating from the First Edition (1966). The book consists of five sections.

scholarly journals Relationship of psychiatric comorbidity and treatment of panic disorder and agoraphobia

2006 ◽  
Vol 134 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 267-272
Author(s):  
Milan Latas ◽  
Vladan Starcevic ◽  
Goran Trajkovic
Keyword(s):  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Behavior Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behavior Therapy ◽  
Psychiatric Comorbidity ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Relationship Of

Introduction. Besides numerous studies that examined various aspects of comorbidity in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia and numerous studies that examined efficacy of different treatment modalities in these patients, there was no study that examined relationship of overall psychiatric comorbidity and treatment of patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Objective. The objective of the study was to establish the effect of psychiatric comorbidity on treatment efficiency of patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Method. The sample of the study consisted of 119 patients with primary diagnosis of panic disorder and agoraphobia. The therapy of patients was based on the use of individual integrative model of treatment, which incorporated psycho-pharmaceuticals (benzodiazepines and antidepressants) and cognitive- behavior therapy. Symptom severity was estimated by Panic and Agoraphobia Scale before and after the completion of treatment. Patients with comorbidity and patients without any comorbidity were compared by MANOVA and ANOVA with repeated measures. Results. The results of the study showed that 91% of patients met diagnostic criteria of comorbid psychiatric disorder and these patients had more severe clinical picture than patients without any comorbid disorder before the treatment. The results also showed that, after the completion of treatment, there was a significant reduction of all analyzed symptoms, that the effects of treatment were significantly better in patients with psychiatric comorbidity and that comorbid psychiatric disorders had no negative effect on the main goals of the treatment. Conclusion. Based on these results, it may be concluded that: in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia and comorbid psychiatric disorders, the pharmacotherapy must be based on simultaneous use of antidepressants and benzodiazepines, while standard cognitive-behavior therapy of patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia must be modified in case of the existing comorbid psychiatric disorders.

scholarly journals SPECIFIC MARKERS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS – REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 1359-1363
Author(s):  
Marcin Zarzycki ◽  
Magdalena Flaga-Łuczkiewicz ◽  
Joanna Czuwara ◽  
Lidia Rudnicka
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Disorders ◽  
Systemic Lupus ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Potential Association ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Sle ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Diseases ◽  
Wide Range

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multiorgan autoimmune disease belonging to spectrum of interest of many medical specialties. Wide range of patients 14−75% with SLE suffers from neuropsychiatric disorders. The problematic diagnosis of neuropsychiatric SLE has generated many studies focusing on etiology of the disease with the presence of specific autoantibodies, abnormalities which can be detected by imaging examinations or correlation with catecholamine levels. The aim of this review paper is to discuss the frequency of neuropsychiatric disturbances in patients with SLE and their potential association with immunological abnormalities and specific disease markers. So far published literature regarding this topic indicates the usefulness of autoantibodies specificity. The use of the specific antibodies may be helpful in targeting diagnostics towards psychiatric disorders, especially depressive ones. Imaging scanning techniques such as computed tomography (CT) have limited value in psychiatric disorders diagnosis but can be useful in neurological symptoms and complains. Therapeutic use of systemic glucocorticosteroids due to anti-inflammatory properties with multidirectional action, may also significantly influence the course of neuropsychiatric diseases, especially in patients with SLE. Awareness of the morbidity of neuropsychiatric disorders and the possibilities of their diagnosis are important in the management of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, which significantly affects the quality of life of patients, treatment efficacy and psyche.

scholarly journals Risk of miscarriage in women with psychiatric disorders

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Maria C. Magnus ◽  
Alexandra Havdahl ◽  
Nils-Halvdan Morken ◽  
Knut-Arne Wensaas ◽  
Allen J. Wilcox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Adjusted Odds Ratio ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Somatoform Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnoses ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Birth Registry ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Wide Range

Background Some psychiatric disorders have been associated with increased risk of miscarriage. However, there is a lack of studies considering a broader spectrum of psychiatric disorders to clarify the role of common as opposed to independent mechanisms. Aims To examine the risk of miscarriage among women diagnosed with psychiatric conditions. Method We studied registered pregnancies in Norway between 2010 and 2016 (n = 593 009). The birth registry captures pregnancies ending in gestational week 12 or later, and the patient and general practitioner databases were used to identify miscarriages and induced abortions before 12 gestational weeks. Odds ratios of miscarriage according to 12 psychiatric diagnoses were calculated by logistic regression. Miscarriage risk was increased among women with bipolar disorders (adjusted odds ratio 1.35, 95% CI 1.26–1.44), personality disorders (adjusted odds ratio 1.32, 95% CI 1.12–1.55), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adjusted odds ratio 1.27, 95% CI 1.21–1.33), conduct disorders (1.21, 95% CI 1.01, 1.46), anxiety disorders (adjusted odds ratio 1.25, 95% CI 1.23–1.28), depressive disorders (adjusted odds ratio 1.25, 95% CI 1.23–1.27), somatoform disorders (adjusted odds ratio 1.18, 95% CI 1.07–1.31) and eating disorders (adjusted odds ratio 1.14, 95% CI 1.08–1.22). The miscarriage risk was further increased among women with more than one psychiatric diagnosis. Our findings were robust to adjustment for other psychiatric diagnoses, chronic somatic disorders and substance use disorders. After mutual adjustment for co-occurring psychiatric disorders, we also observed a modest increased risk among women with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (adjusted odds ratio 1.22, 95% CI 1.03–1.44). Conclusions A wide range of psychiatric disorders were associated with increased risk of miscarriage. The heightened risk of miscarriage among women diagnosed with psychiatric disorders highlights the need for awareness and surveillance of this risk group in antenatal care.

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