Browsing by Subject "Psychiatric disorders"
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Are personality traits of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy related to frontal lobe dysfunctions? A proton MRS study
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009-05-01)Personality traits characterized by emotional instability and immaturity, unsteadiness, lack of discipline, hedonism, frequent and rapid mood changes, and indifference toward one's disease have been associated with patients ...
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Are psychiatric disorders exclusion criteria for video-EEG monitoring and epilepsy surgery in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis?
(Elsevier B.V., 2013-05-01)Epilepsy surgery (ES) is a treatment option for patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). However, psychiatric disorders (PDs) have been a contraindication for presurgical evaluation in many epilepsy centers. ...
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Clinical correlates of social adjustment in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
(Elsevier B.V., 2012-10-01)Background: Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) frequently show poor social adjustment, which has been associated with OCD severity. Little is known about the effects that age at symptom onset, specific OCD ...
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A critical and descriptive approach to interictal behavior with the Neurobehavior Inventory (NBI)
(Elsevier B.V., 2012-11-01)Purpose: the purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Neurobehavior Inventory (NBI) in a group of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients from a tertiary care center, correlating its scores with ...
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Educação Física e Saúde Mental: Percepção de alunos da Educação Física sobre o papel e inserção da profissão no NAPS
(Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2014-12-10)Este trabalho tem como tema a Educação física e a Saúde Mental. Esse estudo teve como objetivo analisar a percepção dos alunos de educação física que realizaram intervenções na rede de saúde mental de Santos no eixo ...
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Effects of the brain-derived neurotropic factor variant Val66Met on cortical structure in late childhood and early adolescence
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2018)Background: The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met polymorphism (rs6265) has been associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders and regional structural brain changes in adults, but little is known about ...
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Fine motor ability and psychiatric disorders in youth
(Springer, 2018)Impaired fine motor ability has been linked to several domains of psychopathology. However, studies validating the specificity of this association among several categorical psychiatric disorders are still needed. The aim ...
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The integrity of corpus callosum and cluster B personality disorders: A quantitative MRI study in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
(Elsevier B.V., 2010-04-16)Evidence suggests increased prevalence of cluster B personality disorders (PD) among patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), which has been associated with worse seizure control and more psychosocial dysfunctions. ...
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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: Psychiatric comorbidity and impact on outcome
(Elsevier B.V., 2013-07-01)Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a well-defined age-related idiopathic epilepsy syndrome. Past studies have emphasized the difficulties in the treatment of patients with JME, which have been attributed to some specific ...
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Major depressive disorder as a predictor of a worse seizure outcome one year after surgery in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and mesial temporal sclerosis
(W B Saunders Co Ltd, 2012-10-01)Purpose: the association between pre-surgical psychiatric disorders (PDs) and worse seizure outcome in patients with refractory epilepsy submitted to surgery has been increasingly recognized in the literature. the present ...