Cognitive deficits in patients with β-thalassemia major
Conclusion
β-TM patients had significantly more cognitive deficits than healthy controls. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - June 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Psychiatric profile of children with chronic use of corticosteroids in nephrotic syndrome
Conclusion
There was a strong positive correlation between using of CS therapy for a long period and development of psychiatric disorders such as aggression, anxiety and depression. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - June 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Hormonal level and serum serotonin in patients with first episode mania: a case–control study
Conclusion
The underlying laboratory findings are a specific pathophysiology of manic symptoms and there is a positive correlation between laboratory findings and severity of manic symptoms evaluated with the YMRS. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - June 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Impact of anxiety on the prevalence of tobacco use among medical students, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Conclusion
The rate of tobacco cigarette smoking is significantly increased as the medical students who progress through the years of their study being 21.5, 24.6 and 41.8% in the first, sixth year students and house officers, respectively. Anxiety had an impact on smoking in the first year students only. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - June 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Assessment of behavior and sleep in school-age children with generalized epilepsy
Conclusion
Continuous assessment of sleep and behavior in children with epilepsy is important to exclude problems that can affect their life. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - June 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Impact of shift work on sleep problems, hormonal changes, and features of metabolic syndrome in a sample of Egyptian industrial workers: a cross-sectional study
Background
The effect of shift work on health is mainly thought to be related to its interference with circadian rhythms with consequence effects on sleep, hormonal balance, and features of metabolic syndrome.
The aim of this work was to investigate the impact of shift work on sleep problems, hormonal balance, and features of metabolic syndrome (BMI, cardiovascular problems, type II diabetes mellitus) among a sample of Egyptian industrial workers.
Patients and methods
Participants were 99 male workers (36 morning shift workers, 19 afternoon shift workers, and 44 night shift workers), with an age ranging from 25 to 60...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Life satisfaction and quality of life in adolescents with severe microtia: the effect of improved body image disturbance after ear reconstructive surgery with costal cartilage
Conclusion
In adolescence, ear reconstruction surgery with costal cartilage with multiple stages is still a valid option. It can reverse the psychological distress and significantly improves HRQL and SLSS. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The relationship between coping profile and Axis-I psychiatric morbidity in athletes
Conclusion
Athletes with psychiatric morbidity at the time of competition were more inclined to using negative emotion-focused coping like helplessness and self-blame, and emotional discharge, and were less apt to use cognitive-focused coping like positive reinterpretation and seeking information and social support than athletes not suffering from psychiatric disorders; this calls sports psychologists and trainers to offer adaptive cognitive and emotion-focused coping techniques to decrease stress and morbidity. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Family assessment among patients with various mental disorders
Conclusion
Psychiatric disorders are more prevalent in eldest birth order, skewed family pattern, cold controlling parent–child attachment style, families with poor communication though good parenting, with paternal obsessive traits, and maternal histrionic and dependent traits. Patients with psychotic disorders, who have poorer functioning, have families with good adaptability and parenting, and also idealizing parenting style. Patients with neurotic disorders who have better functioning have families with poor adaptability and parenting, and also scapegoating parenting style. Patients with psychotic disorders scored ...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Screening for obstructive sleep apnoea in patients with treatment-resistant depression: a case–control study
Background
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and major depressive disorder have a reciprocal and overlapping relationship with studies showing a high prevalence of depressive symptoms in OSA and an increased prevalence of sleep disturbances in major depressive disorder, but to date risk of OSA in treatment-resistant depression (TRD) has not been investigated. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the risk of OSA in patients with TRD.
Patients and methods
We conducted a cross-sectional, case–control study comparing 100 patients with TRD with 100 healthy controls at risk of OSA using the STOP-Bang questionnaire, for daytime...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Study of memory dysfunction and interleukin-6 in euthymic Egyptian patients with bipolar disorder
Conclusion
The level of serum IL-6 in patients with BD during euthymia is higher than that of healthy controls and correlated positively with memory dysfunctions, age, number of episodes, and duration of illness in BD during euthymia. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Plasma homocysteine in first-episode schizophrenia: 1-year outcome, a prospective study
Conclusion
We found higher rates of Hcy in patients with first-episode schizophrenia compared with matched controls. Our results suggest that Hcy might play a role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and may negatively influence outcome in terms of symptom severity and treatment characteristics; future studies are required to examine this association further. In the meantime, there is a need for more widespread testing of Hcy levels in first-episode schizophrenia and for the development of appropriate management strategies. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Remission in schizophrenia after a course of electroconvulsive therapy and pharmacotherapy: a prospective comparative study
Conclusion
In this study, combining ECT with drugs had no effect on remission. However, it is too early to state that ECT plays no role in the treatment of schizophrenia; more multicenter studies may be needed that overcome the bias in this study to deny or prove this effect. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Early Career Psychiatrists Fellowships in the 13th International Congress of Ain Shams Institute of Psychiatry, 2017
No abstract available (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Conference report Source Type: research
Attitude toward psychiatry among interns in Egypt
Conclusion
Overall attitudes toward mental illness and choosing psychiatry as a career among interns in the two medical schools were positive. A further study with interns from different institutions is needed to gain a detailed nationwide picture. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
