The relationship between temperament and character in conversion disorder and comorbid depression

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evrim Erten ◽  
Yelda Yenilmez ◽  
Nurhan Fistikci ◽  
Omer Saatcioglu
Keyword(s):  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Comorbid Depression ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between psychosocial trauma type and conversion (functional neurological) disorder symptoms: a cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
pp. 103985622110092
Author(s):  
Shimaa K. Morsy ◽  
Daniela Huepe-Artigas ◽  
Ahmed M. Kamal ◽  
Maha Ali Hassan ◽  
Nashaat Adel Abdel-Fadeel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neurological Disorder ◽  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Trauma Symptom ◽  
Functional Symptoms ◽  
Neurology Clinic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trauma Type ◽  
Functional Neurological Disorder

Objective: Psychosocial trauma was associated with developing conversion disorder (also known as functional neurological disorder) before Freud, though why a particular symptom should arise is unknown. We aimed to determine if there was a relationship between trauma type and symptom. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients attending Australia’s first functional neurology clinic, including referral, clinic letters and a clinic questionnaire. Results: There were 106 females, 43 males and five transgender patients. Sensory (51%), motor (47%) and seizures (39%) were the commonest functional symptoms. Most patients (92%) reported stressors associated with symptom onset. Multiple trauma/symptom type associations were found: patients with in-law problems experienced more cognitive symptoms ( p = .036), for example, while expressive speech problems more commonly followed relationship difficulties ( p = .021). Conclusion: Associations were found between type of traumatic events and type of symptoms in conversion disorder. This will require verification in a larger sample.

Intelligence and academic achievement in inpatient adolescents with comorbid anxiety and depression

2021 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Anna P. Schrack ◽  
Diana Joyce-Beaulieu ◽  
Jann W. MacInnes ◽  
John H. Kranzler ◽  
Brian A. Zaboski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Chart Review ◽  
Retrospective Chart Review ◽  
Academic Functioning ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Comorbid Depression ◽  
Comorbid Anxiety ◽  
Severity Of Depression ◽  
The Relationship

Few studies have investigated the relationship between comorbid depression and anxiety and cognitive and academic functioning. To understand this relationship, this study used a retrospective chart review from an inpatient facility for 42 adolescents diagnosed with a comorbid anxiety and depressive disorder. Multiple regression was used to determine whether anxiety and depression predicted academic achievement, as well as whether intelligence predicted current levels of anxiety and depression. Results indicated that higher severity of depression was associated with lower reading (β = –0.39) and writing (β = –0.40) achievement, while higher severity of anxiety was associated with higher scores on reading (β = 0.41) and writing (β = 0.36). Full-scale IQ was not significantly predictive of anxiety severity (β = 0.08) or depression severity (β = –0.24). Results are discussed in terms of identifying risk factors and improving outcomes for adolescents with severe comorbid anxiety and depression psychopathology.

scholarly journals Impact of Depression on Health-Related Quality of Life among Skin Cancer Survivors

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-394
Author(s):  
Kaustuv Bhattacharya ◽  
Namita Joshi ◽  
Ruchit Shah ◽  
Vinayak K. Nahar
Keyword(s):  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Activity Limitations ◽  
General Health Status ◽  
Comorbid Depression ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction: Skin cancers are one of the most common cancers in the United States (US).  Studies have reported depression to be a common comorbid condition among individuals with skin cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship of depression with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among individuals with a skin cancer diagnosis.Methods: A cross-sectional study design using the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, a nationally representative sample of non-institutionalized US adults, was utilized for the study. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess the relationship between depression and the HRQOL domains (general health status, physical health, mental health, and activity limitations due to poor physical or mental health) among survivors of skin cancer.Results: Comorbid depression was identified in 20% of skin cancer survivors. After adjusting for covariates, skin cancer survivors with depression had higher odds of having poor general health status (Odds Ratio [OR] = 1.67, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 1.41-1.98) as compared to skin cancer survivors without depression. Skin cancer survivors with depression also had greater odds of having poor physical HRQOL (OR = 1.82, 95% CI 1.53-2.15), poor mental HRQOL (OR = 6.38, 95% CI 5.26-7.74), and activity limitations (OR = 2.42, 95% CI 2.03-2.89) as compared to those without depression.Conclusion: This study highlights the significant negative impact of comorbid depression on HRQOL in a nationally representative sample of skin cancer survivors, and serves as evidence for the need for more active surveillance and management of depression in this population. 

Association of Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR/rs25531) Polymorphism with Comorbidities of Panic Disorder

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Shunsuke Tanahashi ◽  
Hisashi Tanii ◽  
Yoshiaki Konishi ◽  
Takeshi Otowa ◽  
Tsukasa Sasaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Serotonin Transporter ◽  
Comorbid Depression ◽  
Significant Interaction Effect ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Allelic Gene ◽  
Anxious State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Genotype A

<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Panic disorder (PD) has many comorbidities such as depression, bipolar disorder (BPD), and agoraphobia (AG). PD is a moderately heritable anxiety disorder whose pathogenesis is not well understood. Recently, a tri-allelic serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR/rs25531) polymorphism was reported to be more sensitive to personality traits compared to the bi-allelic 5-HTTLPR polymorphism. We hypothesized that the 5-HTTLPR/rs25531 polymorphism may lead to a pathological anxious state depending on the presence or absence of a comorbidity in PD. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> In this study, we investigated the relationship between comorbidities in PD and tri-allelic 5-HTTLPR polymorphisms. A total of 515 patients with PD (148 males, 367 females) were genotyped, and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory as well as anxiety-related psychological tests were administered. Depression, BPD, and AG were diagnosed as comorbidities. <b><i>Results:</i></b> For the tri-allele 5-HTTLPR genotype, a significant interaction effect was found between openness to experience and comorbid depression. Examination of the interaction between AG and the tri-allelic 5-HTTLPR genotype revealed that L’ allele carriers are associated with higher trait anxiety than the S’S’ genotype group in PD without AG. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> Some anxiety and personality traits can be characterized by the tri-allelic gene effect of 5-HTTLPR. These results suggest that tri-allelic 5-HTTLPR genotypes have genetic effects on the presence of comorbidities of PD.

scholarly journals A Conversion Disorder

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-242
Author(s):  
Sarah Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Critical Essay ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Death Knell

Interrogating the relationship between reading, writing and ‘conversion disorder’, this creative-critical essay explores the eversion of the glove in the work of Woolf, Genet, Freud and Derrida. Gathering together reflections on gloves and glove anaesthesia, doubles and pairs, and flowers and the death knell (glas), it offers a series of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic conversions in order to return to and rethink the question of ‘disorder’.

A typology of patients’ relatives with conversive and/or dissociative disorder built from the relationship established with these patients in the southeast Brazil: A clinical-qualitative study

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1762-1762
Author(s):  
F.C. Vianna ◽  
F. Böttcher-Luiz ◽  
E.R. Turato
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Organic Basis ◽  
Dissociative Disorder ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship

IntroductionHysteria is manifested by physical (conversion disorder) and/or psychical symptoms (dissociative disorder), without changes in organic basis, given that they are symbolic manifestations of repressed conflicts that return from the Unconscious. Due to frequent childish and theatrical character that accompanies those events, hysterical patients often mobilize negative attitudes and feelings in peoples of their conviviality.Aimto discuss the psychological meanings of living with such patients.MethodClinical-qualitative method.ResultsA typology of relatives emerged from the interviews: the ambivalent, by one side relate well with the patients wanting to take care of them and showing, by the other side that they feel emotionally overloaded, considering the remoteness; the promoter who seek to save the patient from experiences unpleasant and situations likely to produce emotional crises, thus, are more likely to be the target of the action of the patient, the responsible who wish to leave the patients, but do not because they think nobody will care of them, which would worsen the health condition of these patients.ConclusionAs the hysterical patient has clinical manifestations in order to attract attention to themselves and to manipulate the people around them so that they act in their favour, the attitude of the relative can be both stimulating and repressing of those behaviours, possibly interfering in the clinic evolution of the patients. It is, therefore, important that the doctors and nurses know the relationship between caregivers and patients, in order to instruct them on how to better act with those patients.

Interstellar gas in the central region of the Galaxy

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hydrogen Recombination ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Relationship

A review is given of information on the galactic-centre region obtained from recent observations of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen, the 18-cm group of OH lines, a hydrogen recombination line at 6 cm wavelength, and the continuum emission from ionized hydrogen.Both inward and outward motions are important in this region, in addition to rotation. Several types of observation indicate the presence of material in features inclined to the galactic plane. The relationship between the H and OH concentrations is not yet clear, but a rough picture of the central region can be proposed.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

Choosing a Markov blanket

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Parr
Keyword(s):  
Markov Blanket ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This commentary focuses upon the relationship between two themes in the target article: the ways in which a Markov blanket may be defined and the role of precision and salience in mediating the interactions between what is internal and external to a system. These each rest upon the different perspectives we might take while “choosing” a Markov blanket.

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