Publications by authors named "Dario Cannavo"
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia are symptoms of disturbed perception, mood, behavior, and thought content that occurred frequently. These symptoms, which include apathy, depression, anxiety, psychosis, agitation, and aggression, can serve as predictors of and early clinical diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are common precipitants of institutional care. Agitation and psychosis are associated with accelerated disease progression and increased tau phosphorylation in patients with AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the correlation between insight and recovery in schizophrenic patients according to criteria for both symptomatic and functional remission.
Methods: Seventy patients affected by paranoid schizophrenia were recruited and treated with olanzapine, risperidone, aripiprazole, haloperidol and ziprasidone; visits were scheduled at baseline, 12 and 36 months. We administered PANSS (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale), GAF (Global Assessment of Functioning), SF-36 (Short Form 36 Health Survey), PGWBI (Psychological General Well-Being index) and SAI (Schedule for the Assessment of Insight).
Lack of insight is predominant in schizophrenia though the causes are still unclear. The present study was carried on to investigate the effect of three Second Generation Antipsychotics (SGAs) and Haloperidol on insight and the associations among different clusters of symptoms and insight. Fifty-five patients have been recruited at the moment of pharmacological switch needed for psychotic exacerbation, from other antipsychotic drugs to Olanzapine, Aripiprazole, Ziprasidone and Haloperidol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- Dopamine agonists (DAs) are medicines used to help people with restless legs syndrome (RLS), which can make them feel uncomfortable in their legs.
- A patient who took a DA called pramipexole started experiencing weird feelings and thoughts, but those got better after stopping the medicine and taking a different one (quetiapine XR).
- Doctors are still figuring out why some people have these problems with DAs, but they think it could be linked to things like their genes or stress, so it's important to check these factors before giving the medicine.
Aim: In the different psychiatric disorders the aggression often leads to uncontrolled events, taking aspects of impulsiveness and irrationality. Our research proposes the assessment of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with a psychiatric disorder, who presented an aggressive event.
Methods: The observational study was conducted on a sample of 50 patients (34 men and 16 women), hospitalized following the manifestation of an aggressive event.