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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104314 | DOI Listing |
Asian J Psychiatr
January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Ann Gen Psychiatry
December 2021
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Background: There is growing concern about the psychopathological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The prolonged stress due to the spreading fear of the contagion and to the enforced containment measures are deemed to trigger recurrences of preexisting mental disorders as well as the onset of new ones. From such perspective, clinical cases may be of primary ground to identify individual features and pandemic-related factors predisposing to the development of serious psychiatric symptoms.
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March 2022
Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, 466-8550, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Persistent depression has been suggested to be associated with autistic traits in people of working age. This study aimed to clarify which autistic characteristics at the initial visit were associated with persistent depression at the 12 week follow-up in a primary care setting. Newly depressed outpatients aged 24-59 years with no history of autism were asked to complete the 50-item autism spectrum quotient (AQ) and the Beck depression inventory (BDI) at baseline and 12 week follow-up (N = 123, males: 48%, age: 37.
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March 2021
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States.
Down syndrome disintegrative disorder (DSDD) is a condition of unknown etiology characterized by acute cognitive decline, catatonia, insomnia, and autistic features in individuals with Down syndrome. A prior report of four patients with DSDD suggested a potential autoimmune etiology based on the presence of autoantibodies and on successful treatment with immunotherapy that included intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). Herein, we present the case of an 8-year old girl who developed acute cognitive decline to a dementia-like state, insomnia, catatonia, and autistic features.
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December 2021
Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Hôpitaux Pédiatriques de Nice CHU-LENVAL, 57 avenue de la Californie, Nice, France.
Introduction: Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia (COS) is a rare (1/40000), severe and neurodevelopmental form of schizophrenia beginning before 13 years of age. Little is known about comorbidities and specific COS-related disorders. Thus, the objective of our study was to evaluate them from a psychiatric, neurodevelopmental and somatic perspective.
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