Forward to the clinical exchange: Chronic conversion disorder masking depression and anxiety: The case of Ms. T.

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
David M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Depression And Anxiety

scholarly journals COVID-19 Infected Woman with Tuberculous Meningitis: A Case Report

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahshid Nadershahbaz ◽  
Reza Bidaki ◽  
Saeid Azimi ◽  
fatemeh saghafi
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Postpartum Depression ◽  
Tuberculous Meningitis ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Infected Woman ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Panic Disorders ◽  
Afghan Woman

Abstract Background: Several factors have been reported for COVID-19 disease. In addition, patients with COVID-19 are also susceptible to suffer from other problems. In this study, a case suffering from TB meningitis is reported to have developed COVID-19 disease, eventually showing symptoms of psychological disorders.Case presentation: A young Afghan woman was hospitalized with TB meningitis who did not respond to treatment. After a while, she was hospitalized again with diagnosis of COVID-19. The patient showed symptoms of postpartum depression and anxiety. She also had pseudoseizure attacks several times, so antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications were started for the patient In order to treat conversion disorder and panic disorders.Conclusion: Tuberculous meningitis, postpartum depression and other factors can increase the risk of COVID-19 infection leading to psychological disorders like conversion disorder in susceptible.

A Descriptive Study on the Clinical Correlates of Conversion Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 513-529
Author(s):  
Ronald Roy K
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Motor Disorder ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
Conversion Disorders ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Dissociative Convulsions

Aim: Conversion disorder is defined by the presence of deficits affecting the voluntary motor or sensory functions lacking any known neurological cause. The aim of the study is to describe the sociodemographic profile and clinical characteristics including the frequency distribution of various types of presentations of patients with conversion disorders in a tertiary care psychiatric facility and to assess the presence of depression and anxiety and its level of severity in those patients. Methods: After obtaining informed consent, 50 consecutive patients who had met with the ICD-10 diagnosis criteria for conversion disorder and those who meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria, were enrolled for the study. They were interviewed using a semi-structured Performa and were administered Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS) and the results were analysed using SPSS software and interpreted. Results: Majority of the study patients were young adolescents (48%), females (76%), rural residents (60%), mostly unmarried (46%). Dissociative motor disorders (30%) were the most common presentation followed by mixed dissociative disorder (26%) and Dissociative convulsions (22%). HAD scale revealed that, both depression and anxiety scores were significantly high in major number of patients. Conclusion: The most common presenting symptom was that of dissociative motor type followed by dissociative convulsions with considerably high rates of depression (48%) and anxiety (54%). This made us to conclude that conversion as a phenomenon emerges to uphold its significance as a non-verbal communication process of the subconscious Mind. Keywords: Conversion, Dissociation, Hysteria, Dissociative Motor Disorder, Dissociative Convulsions, Laterality, Depression, Anxiety.

Childhood trauma and dissociation in women with pseudoseizure-type conversion disorder

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Ozcetin ◽  
Hasan Belli ◽  
Umit Ertem ◽  
Talat Bahcebasi ◽  
Ahmet Ataoglu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Type Conversion

Individual Differences and Hemispheric Asymmetry While Processing Emotional Words

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay M. Niccolai ◽  
Thomas Holtgraves
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Hemispheric Asymmetry ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Hemispheric Differences ◽  
Affective Valence ◽  
Emotional Words ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
The Right

This research examined differences in the perception of emotion words as a function of individual differences in subclinical levels of depression and anxiety. Participants completed measures of depression and anxiety and performed a lexical decision task for words varying in affective valence (but equated for arousal) that were presented briefly to the right or left visual field. Participants with a lower level of depression demonstrated hemispheric asymmetry with a bias toward words presented to the left hemisphere, but participants with a higher level of depression displayed no hemispheric differences. Participants with a lower level of depression also demonstrated a bias toward positive words, a pattern that did not occur for participants with a higher level of depression. A similar pattern occurred for anxiety. Overall, this study demonstrates how variability in levels of depression and anxiety can influence the perception of emotion words, with patterns that are consistent with past research.

Dimensionality and Reliability Assessment of the Pain Patient Profile Questionnaire

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E. McGuire ◽  
Michael J. Hogan ◽  
Todd G. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Self Report ◽  
Pain Patient ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Oblique Rotation ◽  
Pain Experience ◽  
Patient Profile ◽  
Adequate Representation ◽  
Pain Patients ◽  
Report Measure

Abstract. Objective: To factor analyze the Pain Patient Profile questionnaire (P3; Tollison & Langley, 1995 ), a self-report measure of emotional distress in respondents with chronic pain. Method: An unweighted least squares factor analysis with oblique rotation was conducted on the P3 scores of 160 pain patients to look for evidence of three distinct factors (i.e., Depression, Anxiety, and Somatization). Results: Fit indices suggested that three distinct factors, accounting for 32.1%, 7.0%, and 5.5% of the shared variance, provided an adequate representation of the data. However, inspection of item groupings revealed that this structure did not map onto the Depression, Anxiety, and Somatization division purportedly represented by the P3. Further, when the analysis was re-run, eliminating items that failed to meet salience criteria, a two-factor solution emerged, with Factor 1 representing a mixture of Depression and Anxiety items and Factor 2 denoting Somatization. Each of these factors correlated significantly with a subsample's assessment of pain intensity. Conclusion: Results were not congruent with the P3's suggested tripartite model of pain experience and indicate that modifications to the scale may be required.

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