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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Mania"”.
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The experience of different types of mania in bipolar disorder
Background Previous research investigating interventions which included family members and caregivers in the treatment of bipolar patients were shown to impact positively on patients’ outcomes. Although there is evidence that some family interventions showed improved relapse rates, other studies …
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An Investigation Of The Cognitive And Perceptual Mechanisms Involved In Mania-Proneness
… cognitive and perceptual mechanisms involved in mania-proneness. Building on the work of Depue and colleagues: Depue & Iacono, 1989; Depue & Zald, 1993) and Gray: 1994), which identifies links between the Behavioral Activation System: BAS) and the symptoms observed in mania, this research …
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A picture is worth a thousand words: the myth behind the international art mania.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1974
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
The “madman’s” place throughout history has tended to be a mystery on both ontological and epistemological levels. From the perception of the madman as a crazed oracle in the sixteenth century to the perception of the madman as a criminal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the …
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Case series of mania secondary to HIV/AIDS in patients at Chainama Hills College Hospital and University Teaching Hospital Lusaka, Zambia
Primary mania is the diagnostic label given to manic episodes that occur during the course of a Bipolar Disorder (Ghanem KG, 2008). Patients with secondary mania have manic-like episodes somewhat similar to those seen in Bipolar Disorder. (Lyketsos CG et al, 1997). However, these manic-like …
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Case series of mania secondary to HIV/AIDS in patients at Chainama Hills College Hospital and University Teaching Hospital Lusaka, Zambia
Primary mania is the diagnostic label given to manic episodes that occur during the course of a Bipolar Disorder (Ghanem KG, 2008). Patients with secondary mania have manic-like episodes somewhat similar to those seen in Bipolar Disorder. (Lyketsos CG et al, 1997). However, these manic-like …
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Psychological factors influencing women's postpartum mental health
… the Occurrence of SubClinical Symptoms of Mania in New Mothers”, aimed to explore the relationship between postpartum (hypo)mania and psychological factors including: cognitive appraisal styles, rumination strategies, Behavioural Activation System (BAS) sensitivity, sleep deprivation and …
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Piranesi's Campo Marzio plan : the palimpsest of interpretive memory
… in the ichnographic reconstruction of the Campo Mania area of Ancient Rome. This plan was issued in 1762, but as the structures in the plan appear non-Roman and without apparent historical evidence, this work is termed non archaeological. Piranesi's polemical activities in the pan-Grecian debate …
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Neuropsychiatric features of HIV/AIDS
… of this thesis was that HIV psychosis and mania are overlapping manifestations of the neuropathophysiological consequences of HIV characterized by symptoms suggestive of sub-acute delirium and cognitive impairment. It was also hypothesised that HIV-associated mania and psychosis are …
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Exploring Gender Differences Between Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder in Responses on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
… Personality Assessment Inventory Borderline and Mania subscales. This study used archival data from 102 outpatient individuals who completed the PAI at intake. Results showed men scored significantly higher on the Mania Grandiosity subscale and scored within the high elevation range of the Mania …
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Theory of Mind in Bipolar Disorder: A Pilot Descriptive Study
… with bipolar disorder who are experiencing mania, euthymia, or depression. Secondarily, to determine if a bias in ToM in patients experiencing different affective episodes is related to a positive, negative, or neutral valence of the target. Finally, to determine if mental state decoding is …
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Soul Hunting
… to the Webster's unabridged dictionary, a mania is an excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze. I experience a mania on a daily basis: I take photographs. I trap photographs inside flat, airless fish tanks where time stands still. The creatures captured inside the tanks …
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Quantitative assessment of the pharmacotherapy of biopolar disorder and schizophrenia
… efficacy of lithium in the acute treatment of mania and for the prophylaxis of bipolar disorder, and investigating the value of plasma haloperidol concentration for predicting response to treatment in schizophrenia. The pharmacogenetics of psychotropic drugs is critically appraised to provide …
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Studio di associazione caso-controllo di alcuni geni candidati nel disturbo bipolare in un campione sardo
… polarità, che oscillano cioè da uno stato maniacale ad uno depressivo, accompagnati da alterazioni del pensiero e del comportamento. Chi risulta affetto da DB va incontro ad episodi di mania e di depressione che si alternano a periodi più o meno brevi di relativo benessere. Lo studio del …
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Birth of the First: Authenticity and the Collecting of Modern First Editions, 1890-1930
… of what several contemporary critics dubbed a “mania” for modern first editions as book collectors trained their sights on authors who were contemporaries and, in some cases, still living. Prices for modern authors reached unmatched heights in the collectors’ market, and both bibliophilic …
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The formation of the Japanese Art Collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia 1904-1940 : tangible evidence of Bunmei Kaika.
… the British Empire and the United States. The mania for things Japanese also reached the far-flung colonies in Australia and New Zealand. This phenomenon, referred to in the English-speaking world as ‘Mikado Mania’ or the ‘Cult of Japan’, coincided with the establishment of public museums, the …
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The Longitudinal Trajectory of Subclinical Manic Symptoms from Childhood to Adolescence and their Predictive Validity for Bipolar Disorder
… a new scale, the Child Behaviour Checklist-Mania Scale (CBCLMS) to capture subclinical manic symptoms. The CBCL-MS consists of 19 items of the CBCL 6-18 selected by an expert panel to map onto the DSM criteria for Mania. The CBCL-MS had a four factor structure that was interpretable and …
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Prevalence of pyschiatric disorders in HIV positive patients at Chilenje Clinic in Lusaka Zambia
… depression, any anxiety disorder and mania/hypomania was 9.2% (n=17), 7% (n=13), 6.5% (n=12) and 2.7% (n=5) respectively. Psychotic symptoms were present in 9.2% (n=17) of which 3.8% (n=7) were psychotic symptoms likely to be attributed to ARVS, 2.7% (n=5) was mood disorder with …
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Prevalence of pyschiatric disorders in HIV positive patients at Chilenje Clinic in Lusaka Zambia
… depression, any anxiety disorder and mania/hypomania was 9.2% (n=17), 7% (n=13), 6.5% (n=12) and 2.7% (n=5) respectively. Psychotic symptoms were present in 9.2% (n=17) of which 3.8% (n=7) were psychotic symptoms likely to be attributed to ARVS, 2.7% (n=5) was mood disorder with …
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