Pregnancy is associated with psychiatric symptoms in a low-income countryside community of Brazil.

Background: Psychiatric symptoms during pregnancy induce an increase in morbidity and also in the mortality levels among women and children. However, the real association between pregnancy and psychiatric disorders and the peculiarities of the phenomenology of symptoms in underprivileged countryside communities remain uncertain.

Objective: To verify the association between psychiatric disorder, symptoms, and pregnancy among women from a low-income countryside community and to determine the specific cutoff points for major depression diagnosis according to Beck Depression Inventory for the different trimesters of pregnancy in this population.

Psychiatric disorders in primary focal dystonia and in Parkinson's disease.

Background: Primary focal dystonia and Parkinson's disease are movement disorders that have contrasting motor phenotypes. The aim of this study was to compare the frequency and the severity of psychiatric disorders in primary focal dystonia and Parkinson's disease.

Methods: Two groups of 30 patients matched by gender and age underwent a neurological and psychiatric assessment.