Drug-induced Parkinsonism develops in a number of patients with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorders. Conventionally, anti-parkinsonism drugs, such as levodopa and dopamine agonists have been avoided due to their potential to result in an increase in psychotic symptoms, ha...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/8046
Soluble cytokine receptors (SCR) modulate cytokine signaling and are increased in states of abnormal immune activation. SCR’s are also increased in psychiatric and neurological disorders associated with altered brain catecholaminergic activity; although, there is no evidence that...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/7231
Hasfa M. Ali, Duaa M. Attar, Fatma Al-Abdulwahid, Fatema A. Juma, Hussah I. Al-Mezail, Jawaher A. Al-Jalahma, Raneem R. Al-Shaikh, Samar S. Hussain, Sara A. A. Al-Mail, Wafa A. T. Al-Omari & Amer Kamal·International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal·2014
A cross sectional study involving all year 1 and 6 medical student of Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain in the year 2011-2012 was performed by self reporting anxiety and depression using HADS forms. The results showed that 33.96 % of year 1 and 55.07% of year 6 students showed a...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/8048
Chronic minor childhood stress in the form of corporal punishment predicts adult psychopathology in the United States but has not been demonstrated in a country where corporal punishment is normative. We tested whether adult psychopathology was predicted by recalled frequency of...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/7997
Aim: To examine the gender differences in young adults with clinical manifestation of social phobia. Study Design: analytical, cross-sectional cohort study Place and Duration of Study: Psychiatric Hospital- Skopje, Centre for Mental Health- Centre, between January 2012 and June 2...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/6494
In the present review, organizational and activational hormonal effects are proposed to be dysfunctional in schizophrenia and psychosis. Specifically, organizational effects are held responsible for the long-lasting anatomical and functional changes in brain development associate...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/6842
Aims: Over the course of the past decades, studies on child maltreatment have increasingly adopted multiple levels of analysis (particularly by the inclusion of genetics factors) on the basis of the variability in children’s responses to stressful life events. This is a prelimina...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/7092
Aim: We describe a 52 year old gentleman who had a third ventricular lesion, presumed to be epidermoid cyst, which is very rare. We also describe the appearances of this rare condition on newer MRI sequences. Presentation of Case: Third ventricle is a rare site of epidermoid cyst...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/7009
Aim: We describe a case of a 22 year old pregnant female patient who was found to have a small colloid cyst that increased spontaneously, followed by spontaneous significant reduction in size. Presentation of Case: The patient’s colloid cyst was picked up incidentally in late pre...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/7342
Aim: We aim to describe a case of hyperekplexia in a Saudi neonate due to Novel mutation in GLRB. Case Presentation: One month old Saudi neonate with hypertonicity, repetitive episodes of jitteriness and exaggerated startle reflex. Discussion: Hyperekplexia (OMIM:149400, 138492 &...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/5368