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Prevalence of fatigue in Parkinson disease and its clinical correlates
2014
Objective: To assess in a noninterventional setting the prevalence and severity of fatigue in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Italian patients with PD. Objectives included the evaluation of the current prevalence and severity of fatigue in patients with PD measured using the 16-item Parkinson Fatigue Scale (PFS-16), distressing fatigue (defined as a PFS-16 mean score $3.3), and assessment of its clinical correlates. Results: A total of 402 patients were enrolled and 394 patients completed the PFS-16 questionnaire with a PFS-16 mean (6SD) score of 2.87 6 0.99. Of these, 136 patients (33.8%) reported distressing fatigue (PFS-16 mean…
Selection bias during recruitment of elderly subjects from the general population for psychiatric interviews
1997
The aim of the present study was to determine and assess a possible selection bias in an epidemiologic investigation in the elderly. A stratified sample of 1305 probands aged 60-99 years was initially contacted by mail and then by telephone to obtain their consent to participate in a psychiatric interview. A liberal recruitment procedure led to interview participation of only 291 subjects. The proportion of younger, male, and married subjects participating in the study was greater than that of elderly, female, and single or widowed subjects. Subjects without a psychiatric lifetime diagnosis were more cooperative than those with a psychiatric disorder. The latter finding demonstrates the nee…
Cognitive impairment and consumption of mental healthcare resources in outpatients with bipolar disorder.
2020
Cognitive dysfunction is a major predictor of functional outcomes, and loss of occupational functioning is usually linked with a higher cost of illness. However, the association between cognitive impairment and consumption of health resources has not been studied in bipolar disorder to date. This study aims to examine this relationship. This is an observational, retrospective study of a representative sample of euthymic outpatients between 18 and 55 years, fulfilling DSM 5 criteria for bipolar disorder and recruited at a catchment area in Spain. Cognitive performance was screened with the Spanish version of the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP-S), and several variables of…
Riflessioni sull’apporto artistico degli orafi e argentieri napoletani a Malta nel Seicento
2019
The article deals with master goldsmiths and silversmiths from Naples looking for luck in Malta during the seventeenth century.
Ny arbeids- og velferdsforvaltning : oppretting av NAV-kontorer i kommunene : rapport fra en pilotstudie høsten 2006
2006
1.juli 2006 ble den Nye Arbeids- og Velferdsforvaltning opprettet. Det er den største omorganisering som er skjedd innen velferdstjenesteområdet i Norge noen gang. 16000 ansatte er involvert og alle landets kommuner blir engasjert i denne. For å få en oversikt over reformen og over området som endres ble denne rapporten laget. Rapporten er derfor en beskrivende rapport både når det gjelder fortid om hvordan de tidligere etatene ble til og fungerte og når det gjelder nåsituasjonen for reformen. Fortiden beskrives i en gjennomgang av historien bak, mens nåsituasjonen beskrives dels ved en gjennomgang av reformens ulike dokumenter og ved svarene som fremkom i en intervjurunde foretatt i forhol…
The Positive Personality Model (PPM): Exploring a New Conceptual Framework for Personality Assessment.
2018
The aim of this paper is to explore a new framework for personality assessment that may function as sanity nosology of personality traits: the Positive Personality Model. The recent publication of DSM-5 created the opportunity to assess personality traits as dimensional constructs (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In Section III, five maladaptive personality traits are proposed as the maladaptive versions of Five Factor Model (FFM) traits (Costa and McCrae, 1985). This approach draws on the existing idea of conceptualizing pathological and typical personality traits as part of a continuum. It places DSM-5’s maladaptive traits in a sickness pole and FFM’s traits in a “typical” pole. …
Differentiation between major and minor depression
1992
Though the concept of Major Depression was generated by clinicians using depressed inpatients as models, a polydiagnostic study in 600 psychiatric inpatients with heterogenous psychological disturbances revealed that all six competing operational definitions of Major Depression (including DSM-III-R and ICD-10) were too restrictive to serve as a general concept of depression. Another polydiagnostic study in 500 primary care outpatients showed that more than two-thirds of all non-chronic depressed cases were below the severity threshold of Major Depression: these patients are classified as Depression Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) by DSM-III-R. Loosening of the over-restrictive time criteria w…
EU transition in power sector: How RES affects the design and operations of transmission power systems
2019
In the past, much of Europe's electricity grid network has been designed in consideration of the locations of conventional generation plants. However, a large share of today's renewables production – notably variable wind and solar – does not correspond to this grid architecture. Interconnectors, in addition to internal infrastructure, are key to creating new electricity corridors to connect areas of surplus to areas of scarcity. In this context, in 2014 the European Council, in recognizing that a fundamental role of transmission infrastructure is to enable the integration of areas of high renewable energy potential with main consumption areas, endorsed the proposal by the European Commissi…
A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice
2021
Translational animal models for studying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are valuable for elucidating the poorly understood neurobiology of this neuropsychiatric disorder. These models should encompass crucial features, including persistence of PTSD-like phenotypes triggered after exposure to a single traumatic event, trauma susceptibility/resilience and predictive validity. Here we propose a novel arousal-based individual screening (AIS) model that recapitulates all these features. The AIS model was designed by coupling the traumatization (24 h restraint) of C57BL/6 J mice with a novel individual screening. This screening consists of z-normalization of post-trauma changes in startle …
Thomas S. Szasz, precursor de la psiquiatría crítica
2015
Thomas S. Szasz (1920-2012), profesor de psiquiatría de la State University of New York en Siracusa (EE. UU.), fue el mayor crítico del cientificismo y de las prácticas coercitivas de la psiquiatría. Con treinta y cinco libros publicados y centenares de artículos, no ha existido otro autor más prolífico en su campo. Fue un intelectual de primer orden que realizó uno de los más lúcidos análisis conceptuales y epistemológicos de la psiquiatría. Este le sirvió de base para sostener su crítica abierta a los abusos de poder de la psiquiatría (encierros involuntarios, tratamientos no consentidos, etc.). Su libro de 1961 El mito de la enfermedad mental es un clásico. En él Szasz sostuvo, contra el…