Elisa Kijner Gutt, Sandra Petresco, Renata Krelling, Geraldo F Busatto, Isabel A S Bordin, Francisco Lotufo-Neto
{"title":"Gender differences in aggressiveness in children and adolescents at risk for schizophrenia.","authors":"Elisa Kijner Gutt, Sandra Petresco, Renata Krelling, Geraldo F Busatto, Isabel A S Bordin, Francisco Lotufo-Neto","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to investigate whether differences in aggression-related behavioral problems occur between boys and girls at high risk for schizophrenia living in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using the Child Behavior Checklist, we compared the prevalence of behavioral problems between genders for the offspring (6-18 years) of mothers with diagnosis of schizophrenia and a comparison group of children born to women with no severe mental disorders recruited at the gynecology outpatient clinic of the same hospital. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders, Patient Edition was applied for the evaluation of diagnostic status of mothers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Male children of women with schizophrenia had a lower prevalence of aggressive behavior compared to females (4% vs. 36%; p = 0.005), whereas no gender differences regarding aggression were detected in the comparison group (24% vs. 32%; p = 0.53). Logistic regression analyses showed that male gender and being a child of women with schizophrenia interacted so as to favor lower prevalence of aggressive behavior (p = 0.03).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings reinforce the notion that behavioral gender differences related to schizophrenia are already detectable in childhood.</p>","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"110-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of demographic and clinical characteristics between children and adolescents with major depressive disorder.","authors":"Lee Fu-I, Yuan Pang Wang","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare clinical characteristics of major depressive disorder symptoms between children and adolescents.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The subjects were 58 patients of a Child and Adolescent Affective Disorder Clinic consecutively admitted during a six-month period. Children aged 5-9 years old and adolescents from 10-17 years old currently meeting DSM-IV criteria diagnosis of major depressive disorder were chosen. Current MDD diagnosis and depressive psychopathology were assessed by a clinical interview and the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents-DSM-IV version. The Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised Version and the Children Global Assessment Scale rated the severity and global functioning of major depressive disorder.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The most common depressive symptoms were: anhedonia (72.4%), depressed mood (72.4%), decreased concentration (62.1%), and irritability (58.6%). The intensity of depressive episodes of this sample ranged from mild to moderate. Fifty percent reported thoughts of death, and 29.3% presented a variety of psychotic symptoms. When compared with children, adolescents reported a significantly more depressed mood (p = 0.043), lower self-esteem (p = 0.002), and had more difficulty concentrating (p = 0.020). Female adolescents had lower self-esteem (p = 0.003), and male adolescents showed more decreased concentration (p = 0.016).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study suggests that age and gender differences might influence the clinical presentation of major depressive disorder in children and adolescents. Further studies with larger samples are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"124-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards \"systems psychiatry\".","authors":"Gerome Breen, Peter McGuffin, Andrew Simmons","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200002","DOIUrl":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"97-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edgar C Diefenthaeler, Mário Bernardes Wagner, Carlos Eduardo Poli-de-Figueiredo, Paulo R Zimmermann, David Saitovitch
{"title":"Is depression a risk factor for mortality in chronic hemodialysis patients?","authors":"Edgar C Diefenthaeler, Mário Bernardes Wagner, Carlos Eduardo Poli-de-Figueiredo, Paulo R Zimmermann, David Saitovitch","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The present study was conducted to assess the association between depressive symptomatology and mortality in chronic hemodialysis.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A cohort of 40 patients was followed for a median period of 10.5 months. The Beck Depression Inventory was used to classify patients as exposed to depression (Beck Depression Inventory score > 14) or not (Beck Depression Inventory < or = 14). Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to compare the mortality rate between the two groups. The effects of potential confounding factors were adjusted using Cox proportional hazards model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After 24 months of follow-up, survival rates were 39% for exposed and 95% for non-exposed patients (p = 0.029). The Cox proportional hazards model showed results similar to those of the bivariate analysis, indicating that depressive symptomatology tended to be associated with mortality (HR = 6.5, 95%CI: 0.8-55.6; p = 0.085). Other study variables, including age, concurrent systemic diseases, and biochemical markers, were not significantly associated with mortality. Exposed patients remained on dialysis longer and received kidney transplants less frequently (9% vs. 50% for non-exposed patients). When kidney transplantation was included in the Cox regression model, the hazard ratio of mortality for exposed as compared to non-exposed patients lost statistical significance (HR = 4.5; 95%CI: 0.5-40.0; p = 0.17).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study suggests that the presence of depressive symptoms may act as an independent risk factor for mortality in chronic hemodialysis patients. However, this finding needs further investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"99-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fulvio A Scorza, Roberta M Cysneiros, Esper A Cavalheiro, Ricardo M Arida, Wagner F Gattaz
{"title":"Cold weather and risk of sudden cardiac death in schizophrenia: finding a new Achilles' heel?","authors":"Fulvio A Scorza, Roberta M Cysneiros, Esper A Cavalheiro, Ricardo M Arida, Wagner F Gattaz","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"169-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40546970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felipe Filardi da Rocha, Juliana Garcia Carneiro, Patrícia de Araújo Pereira, Humberto Correa, Antonio Lúcio Teixeira
{"title":"Poststroke manic symptoms: an unusual neuropsychiatric condition.","authors":"Felipe Filardi da Rocha, Juliana Garcia Carneiro, Patrícia de Araújo Pereira, Humberto Correa, Antonio Lúcio Teixeira","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"173-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40546974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gizela Turkiewicz, Lilian Lerner Castro, Marcia Morikawa, Carolina Zadrozny Gouvêa da Costa, Fernando Ramos Asbahr
{"title":"Selective mutism and the anxiety spectrum--a long-term case report.","authors":"Gizela Turkiewicz, Lilian Lerner Castro, Marcia Morikawa, Carolina Zadrozny Gouvêa da Costa, Fernando Ramos Asbahr","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"172-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40546973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniela Viganó Zanoti-Jeronymo, Ronaldo Laranjeira, Neliana Buzi Figlie
{"title":"[Effects of alcohol abuse on domestic violence against children: a bibliographical survey].","authors":"Daniela Viganó Zanoti-Jeronymo, Ronaldo Laranjeira, Neliana Buzi Figlie","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"174-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40546975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Simon Guzman, José Angelo Barletta Crescente, Arthur Guerra de Andrade
{"title":"An unusual case report: treatment of cocaine-dependent patient with an atypical antipsychotic.","authors":"Carlos Simon Guzman, José Angelo Barletta Crescente, Arthur Guerra de Andrade","doi":"10.1590/s1516-44462008000200022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-44462008000200022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520767,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)","volume":" ","pages":"175-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40546976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}